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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.
II. *Such means must be used to pacify Gods wrath as by Gods Word are warranted. Of old before Gods will was so fully revealed and recorded as now it is, Saints were wont to seek extraordinary direction of God. As aRebekah when she felt children struggling together within her: and bJoshua when Israel fled before the men of Ai: and cthe other Tribes that fought against the Benjamites: and dDavid when there was a famine in his land: and others on other like occasions. The ordinary course under the Law was, as this here prescribed by Moses in this particular case (for which there was ebefore a more general Law) so burnt offerings: in which respect David gave this advice to Saul, fIf the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him smell an offering. gNoah therefore after that great evidence of Gods wrath, the flood, offered burnt offerings: and it is said that The Lord smelled a sweet savour. So hDavid, and that by the advice of a Prophet, to pacify the wrath of God manifested by a fierce Plague, offered burnt offerings.
II. *SVch means must be used to pacifie Gods wrath as by Gods Word are warranted. Of old before Gods will was so fully revealed and recorded as now it is, Saints were wont to seeke extraordinary direction of God. As a