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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.
§. 67. Of the efficacy of right means.
§. 67. Of the efficacy of right meanes.
III. *Warrantable means rightly used prove effectual. This might be exemplified by all those extraordinary means which in Scripture are recorded to be prescribed, or otherwise warranted by God. But to insist only on such ordinary means as are warranted to us, and to the whole Church of God in all ages, take a view of the prayers which Saints from time to time have made unto God for obtaining good things, and for removing evils: yea of their fastings, of their tears, of their manifold humbling of themselves, and you shall find them ever to have been effectual, ⟨p. 111⟩if they have been rightly used, as I have aelsewhere more fully declared.
III. *VVArrantable meanes rightly used proove effectuall. This might be exemplified by all those extraordinary meanes which in Scripture are recorded to be prescribed, or otherwise warranted by God. But to insist only on such ordinary meanes as are warranted to us, and to the whole Church of God in all ages, take a view of the prayers which Saints from time to time have made unto God for obtaining good things, and for removing evils: yea of their fastings, of their teares, of their manifold humbling of themselves, and you shall find them ever to have beene effectuall, ⟨p. 111⟩