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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.
Ans. By the same that all other affections are perverted: which are generally two. 1. Mis-placing them. 2. Mis-ordering them.
Anger is mis-placed when it is set upon a wrong object: namely upon that which is good and praise-worthy. For anger is one of the disliking affections: the object whereof ought to be evil. Evil is to be feared, and hated, and grieved ⟨p. 71⟩for: and at evil we ought to be angry. Cain was angry at Gods accepting his brothers sacrifice: and Saul at the just praises given to David. Their anger therefore by reason of 1mis-placing it, was evil. But most evilly mis-applied is their anger, which is cast on God. Herein Jonah much failed (Jon. 4. 4, 9.) But Cain much more (Gen. 4. 5.) If God be angry with me, shall I again be angry with him? In no wise: but I will rather fear, and tremble, and crave pardon of him.
Anger is mis-placed when it is set upon a wrong object: namely upon that which is good and praise-worthy. For anger is one of the disliking affections: the object whereof ought to be evill. Evill is to be feared, and hated, and grieved ⟨p. 71⟩for: and at evill we ought to be angry. Cain was angry at Gods accepting his brothers sacrifice: and Saul at the just praises given to David. Their anger therefore by reason of 1mis-placing it, was evill. But most evilly mis-applied is their anger, which is cast on God. Herein Ionah much failed (Ion. 4. 4, 9.) But Cain much more (