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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.
§. 28. Of sacrificing humane blood to pacify God.
§. 28. Of sacrificing humane bloud to pacifie God.
1Who can sufficiently wonder at the vain and foolish wit of men, in inventing such means and courses to pacify Gods wrath, as are so far from being agreeable to his will, and warrantable by his word, as they are clean contrary thereunto, and in that respect must needs incense his wrath more and more. The Heathen of old were wont to sacrifice children, virgins, men, and such like kinds of humane blood: which the Jews, giving themselves over to all Heathenish idolatry, learned of them. For where *the Heathen gave their children to Molech, athe Idol of the Ammonites, which is supposed to be Saturn, bthe Jews ⟨p. 43⟩also did so: not withstanding that cthe Lord had expressly forbid them so to do: and dmade a capital law against all that should so do. As for the Heathen, they had their Oracles at which they used to ask counsel, and take advice in all their weighty exploits, and in all their difficulties and distresses: as e