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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.
§. 47. Of the kind of plague here meant.
The Effect of the fore-mentioned wrath that came from the Lord, is thus expressed, THE PLAGUE IS BEGUN.
THe Effect of the fore-mentioned wrath that came from the Lord, is thus expressed, THE PLAGVE IS BEGVN.
The word translated, *plague is a general word, that signifieth any heavy stroke of God. The root whence it is derived signifieth to strike. aIt is applied to an ox's striking, or pushing to death, so to other like strikings: but ⟨p. 83⟩most commonly to Gods striking of wicked men with some extraordinary judgement. As where David said of Saul, bThe Lord shall smite him: meaning so as to destroy him. This word is coft used of Gods smiting the Egyptians when they held the Israelites among them as bond-slaves. Yea, such a word as dthe word in my text is used to set out all those judgements which God brought upon the Egyptians, called plagues. The word PLAGUE in our vulgar acception importeth an infectious mortal disease, otherwise styled pestilence. Our English word, plague, seemeth to be taken from the e