A01974:380
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.
Quest. Are not diseases, and other kinds of judgements sometimes sent for trial, and for other like ends, which are demonstrations of the wisdom, love, and care of God towards his people, as well as in wrath and vengeance to destroy them.
Quest. ARe not diseases, and other kinds of judgements somtimes sent for triall, and for other like ends, which are demonstrations of the wisdome, love, and care of God towards his people, as well as in wrath and vengeance to destroy them.
Answ. We must distinguish, 1. Betwixt particular or private afflictions, and general or public. 2. Betwixt kinds of public and general afflictions. 3. Betwixt the persons on whom calamities are brought, being of different dispositions though they be mixed together in the same place for co-habition. 4. Betwixt the cause of a judgement, and the effect and fruit of it.
Answ. We must distinguish, 1. Betwixt particular or private afflictions, and general or publike. 2. Betwixt kinds of publike and generall afflictions. 3. Betwixt the persons on whom calamities are brought, being of different dispositions though they be mixed together in the same place for co-habition. 4. Betwixt the cause of a judgement, and the effect and fruit of it.
1. Particular and private afflictions are oft in love, by reason of Gods wise and tender care over his children, inflicted on them. aFor whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. And bGod chasteneth us for our profit. But we read not of any public and general judgement, which came not from the wrath of God. Many instances of the affirmative, that they were effects of wrath, were given before: and the Scripture affordeth many more: but not one to the contrary.