A01974:1941
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.
§. 13. Of wickedness making timorous.
§. 13. Of wickednesse making timorous.
ON the contrary side, A wicked man must not every one be accounted, that hath committed any sin, (for All have sinned:) but such an one as loveth wickedness, and liveth therein, and that without true repentance. Faith 1which is accompanied with repentance, receiveth absolution from God. Absolution from God maketh sins to be as not committed. For, the blood of Christ, which cleanseth us from all sin, cleanseth all that believe and repent. But infidelity 2and impenitency lay all sins open to the wrath and vengeance of God. Knowledge and conscience thereof cannot but fill the soul with many fears and terrors: whence 3it cometh to pass that such wicked men fear and fly, when none pursueth them. Thus much is expressly threatened against such wicked men. I will send, saith God, a faintness into their hearts, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall fly as flying from a sword, and they shall fall when none pursueth, &c. It was the speech of the valorous Earle of Essex, that Sometimes in the field encountering the enemy, the weight of his sins lying heavy upon his conscience, ⟨p. 424⟩being not reconciled to God, quelled his spirits, and made him the most timorous and fearful man that might be. Take heed therefore, O ye Captains, Commanders, and other Members of the Artillery Company, take heed, as you would have your inward disposition fit for your outward profession, of suffering sin to lie up on your souls. Let your function be a motive to make you try the truth of your conversion. Be ye righteous, that you may be indeed courageous.