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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.
God having prescribed circumstances as well as substances, to neglect the one or the other is to cross his sacred will. Yea to do things otherwise then he hath appointed, ⟨p. 46⟩when he hath appointed the rites and manner of doing any thing, is to make our selves wiser then God.
God having prescribed circumstances as well as substances, to neglect the one or the other is to crosse his sacred will. Yea to do things otherwise then he hath appointed, ⟨p. 46⟩when he hath appointed the rites and manner of doing any thing, is to make our selves wiser then God.
1In this respect we have just cause to separate from the Rhemish Church, though it be granted, that for substance they hold many of Christs ordinances. They have the Word read, and prayers in their Churches, but in an unknown tongue, which takes away the benefit thereof. They acknowledge Christ their Mediator, High-Priest, Head, and Prophet: but in that they join Saints in heaven as Mediators, men on earth as true, proper, sacrificing Priests, their Pope a Spiritual head over the whole Church, and give him power to coin new articles of faith, they over-throw the forenamed Orthodoxall substances by these heretical circumstances. So the substance of Baptism which they retain, they impeach by their additions of cream, spittle, and other like foolish inventions, and by their false positions about the absolute necessity, and operative efficacy of the external work. The like might be exemplified in other ordinances. What warrant have they for creeping to images, prostrating their bodies before them, offering to them, going on pilgrimages, wearing hair-shirts, going barefoot, whipping themselves: mewing themselves up in cloisters, caves, Hermitages, with an infinite number of their own inventions. Is God pacified with these? Can such things appease his wrath? What then can be expected for the performance of their ordinances, but this doom of the high Judge,