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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.
1Gods wrath is as a fire. (e to fire in Scripture it is oft resembled) Now a fire, the longer it is suffered to burn, the stronger and more violent it waxeth. When therefore a fire is kindled, will not wise men make all the speed that possibly they can to quench it? The Prophets do thus set out the fierceness of this fire: fA fire is kindled in the Lords anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains, &c. gWho can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. In regard of the violence of Gods wrath it is also resembled to hA flood of mighty waters over-flowing. If waters once overflow and make a breach, all speed must be used to make up that breach, or otherwise it will soon become irrecoverable.
1Gods wrath is as a fire. (e to fire in Scripture it is oft resembled) Now a fire, the longer it is suffered to burne, the stronger and more violent it waxeth. When therefore a fire is kindled, will not wise men make all the speed that possibly they can to quench it? The Prophets do thus set out the fiercenesse of this fire: fA fire is kindled in the Lords anger, and shall burne unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines, &c. gWho can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? His fury is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwne downe by him. In regard of the violence of Gods wrath it is also resembled to