A01974:1908
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.
§. 2. Of such as are fit or unfit for war.
§. 2. Of such as are fit or unfit for warre.
IN the two verses before my Text, it is said, that there were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: 1and that being left, they were so brought under, as Solomon made them to pay tribute. They might therefore have been put to any office or work that the King would: yet were not THEY MEN of WAR. They were too mean and unmeet persons, for a function so high and honourable. On 2the contrary, in the words immediately before my Text, it is said, Of the children of Israel, did Solomon make no servants for his work. They being men of better note and name, were 3reserved for a more honourable employment, which my Text thus expresseth, THEY were MEN of WAR; which words are inferred on the former, by way of opposition, with this adversative Particle BUT. They were no servants for work: BUT THEY were MEN of WAR. As the meaner and baser sort were made servants for work, so 4the better and excellenter sort were made Soldiers for War. ⟨p. 411⟩THEY were MEN of WAR. Nor Hittites, nor Amorites, nor Perizites, nor Hivites, nor Jebusites, BUT Israelites, THEY were MEN of WAR. No Slaves, no Captives, no Aliens, no Foreigners, but Free-men, Freeborn, Native Subjects, Natural Citizens, THEY were MEN of WAR. Thus this relative particle [Greek or Hebrew] THEY, as here it is used, is to be taken [Greek or Hebrew] with an excellency, as importing some eminency of the Persons here meant. This choice then of Persons maketh much to the Dignity of Chivalry.