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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.
§. 51. Of the terror of the beginning of Gods judgements.
§. 51. Of the terrour of the beginning of Gods judgements.
II. *GOD can make the beginning of a judgement terrible. I deny not but that the Lord doth oft times begin very mildly and gently: as he dealt with the Israelites in the wilderness, bringing them ato bitter waters, making them to feel bthe want of bread, and cwater, (not starving them) and dsuffering Amalek to smite the hindmost of them: to try if they would learn to cleave close unto the Lord. But afterwards his strokes were more heavy upon them. Yet he can, and oft doth make the beginning of his judgements very terrible. At the first raising of the flood to drown the world, eAll the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven. Was it not a terrible sight to behold the waters fall down from heaven, and rise up out of the earth so fast as they did? Immediately upon the fSuns rising on the earth, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. How fearful a spectacle was that even at the first sight thereof. The Egyptian plagues give also evidence hereof. So doth the drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the red sea. For while they confidently pursued the Israelites, supposing to get over as safe as the