A01974:1964
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.
5. If a servant took wages, his Master might buy him bow, and arrows, and deduct the price out of his wages.
5. If a servant took wages, his Master might buy him bow, and arrowes, and deduct the price out of his wages.
6. If any man-servant betwixt the years of 17 and 60, ⟨p. 431⟩that took wages, were a month without bow and arrows, for every such default he forfeited 6 shillings and 8 pence.
6. If any man-servant betwixt the yeares of 17 and 60, ⟨p. 431⟩that took wages, were a moneth without bow and arrowes, for every such default he forfeited 6 shillings and 8 pence.
In those days guns (the sure and sore messengers of death) were not so in use as now they are. Strength and skill in shooting was it that made our English nation famous for War. Their exercise thereof in time of peace, and that for recreation, made them so expert as they were therein, at times of War. The *frequent mention of bows and arrows, in Scripture, as instruments of War, showeth that of ancient time they have been used to that purpose: and aJonathans using his bow and arrows for recreation, showeth that of old among Gods people such recreations were used as might the better fit men to War. The men of Gibeah without question from their youth were exercised in sport, to sling stones at a mark, or else they could never have attained to such extraordinary skill, as to