A01974:412
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.
For the former kind of charges and directions which are Divine, these phrases of aNot turning to the right hand or the left: of bnot going beyond the word of the Lord to do less or more, or cto do good or bad of ones own mind, imply a precise cleaving, and close holding to Gods Word, so as we swerve from it in nothing, no not in circumstances. That first phrase of not turning to the right hand or to the left, implieth that Gods Word is as a right way wherein only we must walk to attain unto happiness: and that being in that way, we may not turn out of it on any side, any whither. The phrase is used in that promise which the Israelites made to Edom when they desired to pass through his land. dLet us pass (say they) through thy country: we will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, neither will ⟨p. 95⟩we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the Kings high way: we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. They hereby profess to keep themselves only in the high-way: and not at any time any where to step out of it, no not with mind of returning into it again. Thus it imports that it is not enough in some things to follow Gods direction, and so to walk in his way: and in other things to swerve from his direction, and so to walk out of it; but in all things we must follow it. Yea though there be occasions of sundry sorts, some enticing us one way, others another way, some to the right hand, some to the left, some more fair in show then others, yet ought we not to yield to any of them. This charge given to Moses (e Look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount) hath respect not only to the general matter and substance, but also to particular manner and circumstances. So do all those Epithets which in Divine directions and commandments are used to set out the manner of performing things required.