A01974:384
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.
§. 50. Of the duties to be done when a plague is begun.
A Plague being an effect of Gods wrath, for staying the plague means for pacifying Gods wrath must be used. So did David. He humbled himself, confessed his sin, and that with a penitent heart, and offered sacrifice to God. Apply to this judgement of a plague the directions abefore given. And because Moses giveth here a direction when this plague begun, be careful betimes, even at the beginning of a plague to seek to assuage Gods anger. Hereof also bbefore. And that ye may be the more conscionable herein, know that plagues come not by chance, come not by any ordinary course and means. They come from Gods wrath. Let the directions therefore before given for pacifying Gods wrath be rather observed, then any physical directions. I deny not but that they are lawful, needful, useful. But this which I speak of, is more lawful, needful, and useful. All other without this is nothing at all. In all diseases Gods help is especially to be sought. It was Asa his fault, that cIn his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physicians. If in all diseases, most of all in this that is such an immediate effect of Gods wrath, The Lord is to be sought unto. And so much the rather, because the plague (among other evidences of Gods wrath) is a most fearful one, as *hereafter is showed.
A Plague being an effect of Gods wrath, for staying the plague meanes for pacifying Gods wrath must be used. So did David. He humbled himselfe, confessed his sinne, and that with a penitent heart, and offered sacrifice to God. Apply to this judgement of a plague the directions