A01974:436
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.
§. 62. Of substituting others in ones place in time of danger.
Quest. What if others may be got to supply the places of such as have the fore-mentioned special callings, may not this supply give dispensation to them for some absence.
Quest. WHat if others may be got to supply the places of such as have the fore-mentioned speciall callings, may not this supply give dispensation to them for some absence.
Answ. Questionless difference may be put betwixt persons. Some Magistrates are of such use in a common-wealth, as it is meet they be, as much as lieth in man, preserved ⟨p. 104⟩from danger. On this ground when David the King would have gone out with his soldiers to battle, The people answered, 1Thou shalt not go forth. Thou art worth ten thousand of us. Wherefore eminent, excellent persons may be exempted from abiding in dangerous places, and others substituted in their name and stead, to preserve peace, keep good order, and provide necessaries. Provided that they who are substituted be able and willing to perform the duties whereunto they be deputed. The like may be said of Ministers. Yea of husbands, parents, masters, and the like: to leave a wife, a child, a servant infected with an infectious disease to the tendance of others that are fit and willing to do that duty, and faithful in what they undertake, is not to forsake wife, child, or servant.