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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.
§. 44. Of the matter of mourning which the provocations of Gods wrath give.
2. The main point that Anger is in God, and wrath may come from him, gives great matter of humiliation, in regard of the many great provocations thereof day after day. We know that fire is very fierce where it finds matter to work upon. Would it not thereupon much grieve and perplex men, to see desperate fellows in every house blowing up fire to make it catch hold on houses. More desperate are impudent and impenitent sinners. For no fire so fierce, so fearful as Gods wrath. No such means to kindle and inflame fire, as sin to incense Gods wrath. No such danger and damage can come by any fire, as by the wrath of God. Were not the patience of the Lord more then ordinary, whereby the fire of his wrath is kept from flaming 1out, our houses, our villages, our Cities, our nations, yea, the whole world, and all therein would soon be utterly consumed. O let not the consideration of Gods wrath be passed over with an unrelenting heart, or with dry eyes. I am sure, if it be well weighed, and deeply laid to heart, it will give just occasion to every one of us to cry out and say, Oh that mine eyes were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the many provocations of the wrath of the Lord. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them: For they are all desperately set to incense the wrath of the Lord more and more, till they and all they have be brought to nought. Were the terror of the Lords wrath better known and believed then it is, it would certainly restrain mens excess in provoking the same: and make them more careful and diligent to pacify it. If men be incensed, what pains is taken, what friends are used, what cost is expended, what time is wasted with waiting to pacify them? If the offender be once, twice, yea many times ⟨p. 73⟩rejected, yet will he not give over. Is any such thing done to pacify God?