A01974:1951
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.
§. 16. Of the benefits of Artillery Gardens.
Where are many Artillery Gardens, and they much frequented, and Martial discipline therein daily and duly exercised, Amity with such Kingdoms will be earnestly desired, and welcomely embraced: Kings of such Kingdoms will be admired of their friends, and feared of their foes: Subjects of such Kingdoms will find just and kind entertainment in foreign parts: Natives and Allies will be secured: All manner of callings freely exercised: Lands and inheritances quietly enjoyed: Enemies daunted: Invasions and insurrections prevented: and many, many evils avoided. They who reverence nor God nor man, where they see or hear of an over-mastering power, will be kept within compass; and though conscience do not alter their inward disposition yet constraint will order their outward conversation. But on the contrary, by fearless and careless security, 1by neglect of Artillery and Military exercises, by want of men meet for War, whole Cities and Kingdoms are oft made a booty and prey to their enemies, and suddenly ruinated. Instance Laish, they were a people that were at quiet and 2secure, and the Danites on a sudden smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt their Cities with fire. For a City and Nation to be without Artillery Gardens, is as dangerous as for a traveller to be without a sword.
WHere are many Artillery Gardens, and they much frequented, and Martiall discipline therein daily and duly exercised, Amitie with such Kingdomes will be earnestly desired, and welcomely embraced: Kings of such Kingdomes will be admired of their friends, and feared of their foes: Subjects of such Kingdomes will find just and kind entertainment in forraigne parts: Natives and Allies wilbe secured: All manner of callings freely exercised: Lands and inheritances quietly enjoyed: Enemies danted: Invasions and insurrections prevented: and many, many evills avoided. They who reverence nor God nor man, where they see or heare of an over-mastering power, wilbe kept within compasse; and though conscience do not alter their inward disposition yet constraint will order their outward conversation. But on the contrary, by fearlesse and carelesse security,