A01974:1953
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.
§. 17. Of the commendation of Artillery Gardens.
The Application of this point, doth as nearly concern this Artillery Company, as any of the former, both for justification, and also for approbation and commendation thereof. Were our days more halcyon, more quiet and peaceable then they are, or were they more free from fear of danger then they are, yet were your Artillery exercises lawful, needful, useful. True it is, that they are not in pitched fields, pede pes, & cuspid cuspis, face to face, foot to foot, spear to spear against enemies. They are in a quiet City, in a time of peace among your selves. They are like the Olympian games (instituted 1by potent & prudent Hercules) and the Isthmian sports (ordained by Theseus in imitation of Hercules) as delightsome preparations for war. They are like to the Pyrrhic dancing 2which was invented by Pyrrhus, called armed dancing, because it was performed by men clad in armour, and warlike dancing, because it was a representation of sundry kinds of battles, and a means to make them well to weld their Armour in War. They are like those warlike sports & pastimes which were practiced by Cyrus when he was a youth, and by his coequals, and play-fellows. They are delightsome recreations. But what then? Are they therefore not lawful? Or not needful? Or not useful? He is too severe and censorious, and 3goeth beyond the liberty of Gods Word, that condemneth all recreations, all delightsome pastimes. He is too improvident and imprudent, that conceiveth nothing needful or useful, whereof there is not necessary use in that present and instant time wherein it is used.