A01974:1841
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the…Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the…
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friars, London.Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VIII. *The glory of all deliverances is to be ascribed to God. For by that Providence which extends it self to all things, deliverances from enemies, from dangers, from distresses, from all manner of evils, are obtained. But that is the Providence of God. To whom then, if not to him shall the glory thereof be ascribed? Hereof we have spoken *before.
VIII. *THe glory of all deliverances is to be ascribed to God. For by that Providence which extends it selfe to all things, deliverances from enemies, from dangers, from distresses, from all manner of evils, are obtained. But that is the Providence of God. To whom then, if not to him shall the glory thereof be ascribed? Hereof we have spoken *before.
- *See §. 5.
- *The Churches Conquest, on Exo. 17. 15. §. 77.
Only here learn we to apply this general point, to such particular deliverances as God hath given unto us. Considering therefore that this our land, which hath now for many years enjoyed the bright, pure, comforting, sanctifying, and saving light of the Gospel, lay for many hundred years together in the dismal and damnable darkness of Popery, we are oft to call to mind, and duly to meditate on the means and times whereby and wherein the divine providence hath brought into our land, this light, to discover and drive away that (worse then Egyptian) darkness of Popery. For instances take these.