A01974:1875
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.
Among those that fell, many escaped: for, some of the 1pieces of timber resting with one end on the wall, and with another on the third floor that yielded not, both such as abode upon those pieces, and such as were under them, were thereby preserved. A Minister that was there and fell with 2the multitude, through the providence of God fell so betwixt two pieces of timber, as that timber kept his upper parts from crushing, and helped him, by his clasping about the timber, to pull out his feet from among the dead corps.
Among those that fell, many escaped: for, some of the 1peeces of timber resting with one end on the wall, and with another on the third floore that yeelded not, both such as abode upon those peeces, and such as were under them, were thereby preserved. A Minister that was there and fell with 2the multitude, thorow the providence of God fell so betwixt two pecces of timber, as that timber kept his upper parts from crushing, and helpt him, by his clasping about the timber, to pull out his feet from among the dead corps.
- 1Who fell, but escaped death.
- 2He himself told me this story.He himselfe told me this story.
Among others the present preservation and future destruction of Parker is very remarkable. This Parker was a 1kind of factor for English Seminaries and Nuns beyond sea, especially at Cambre. He so dealt with two brothers of his in England, as he obtained of one a son of his, and of another a daughter, to send them to religious houses (as those superstitions places are called) beyond Sea. This Parker took his Nephew, a youth of 16 years age, to the fore-mentioned fatal conventicle, where Drury preached. Both these, Parker and his Nephew fell with the rest. The youth there lost his life, but Parker himself escaped with a bruised body, being a corpulent man. So far was he from praising God, as with much discontent he wished that he had died for his Nephew, and said, that God saw not him sit to die among such Martyrs. Strange Martyrs! Yet not so strange, as those martyrs which died under gallowses and