A01974:229
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.
§. 29. Of Popish toys to pacify God.
§. 29. Of Popish toyes to pacifie God.
Papists also go two far in using unwarrantable means (such as cannot but kindle and inflame the fire of Gods wrath) to pacify the same: as mens and women's whipping of themselves, wearing shirts of hair, going barefoot so many miles, creeping up and down to this and that place on their bare knees, going long journeys on pilgrimage, to relics and images of Saints, to the holy land, and if they be not inhabitants of Rome, even thither also to visit it: giving up their lands, if they have any: yea and leaving their callings to enter into, and abide in some religious house, as Monastery, Friary, Nunnery, Hermitage, or the like: going up and down to beg: living on alms: offering such and such sums of money at such and such religious places: forbearing such and such meats: mumbling over so and so many times the Creed, Pater noster, and Ave-Maria: and to do what else their Ghostly Father shall enjoin them by way of penance: though it be to murder Kings or other persons. Yea further (wherein they go in inhumane cruelty beyond the Heathen) in persecuting with fire and sword such as refuse to be subject to their Devilish devices. aThe Council of Trent saith of some of these and other like works of penitency (as it calls them) that never any safer way to avert the vengeance of God was found out in the Church. bAnd her great Champion though he confess that they are not commanded of God (only he thus minceth the matter, after a certain manner in particular, not commanded) yet he boldly avoucheth that they are acceptable to God, and holy, and profitable: