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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.
§. 66. Of using means in desperate cases.
§. 66. Of using meanes in desperate cases.
II. *Means must be used in most desperate distresses. This is especially to be understood of spiritual means, whereby immediately and directly help is sought of God, who can help in such cases as men can see no hope of help therein. Physicians may see good ground to give over a patient, knowing that according to the ordinary course of nature all the means that they can use will do no good. But a Christian must never cease to use the spiritual Catholicon, that general remedy which is fit for any malady, prayer. Note the instances given in the former Section, and you shall find Moses, Davids, Isaiah's, Jeremiahs prayers to be made in desperate cases. aDavids child was questionless in mans eye past recovery, when he fasted, and lay all night upon the earth, and besought God for it. Much more past recovery was bHezekiah, when God sent him this message, Thou shalt die, and not live: yet he prayed unto the Lord, and was heard. The cases of many that came to Christ for cure in the days of his flesh, were very desperate, yet found they help. Among other, cA woman which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many Physicians, and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, came to Christ, and was cured. So dThe woman whom Satan had bound eighteen years. So ethe man which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. So sundry Lepers, Demoniacs, men, women, and children at point of death; and many others visited with incurable maladies.