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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.
§. 73. Of the blood of others which principals bring upon themselves.
§. 73. Of the bloud of others which principalls bring upon themselves.
III. *The blood of accessories lieth upon the principals. The Devil is the chiefest principal of all sinners. He first sinned himself, he first tempted and drew man into sin. In this respect he is styled aA murderer from ⟨p. 122⟩the beginning. Now a murderer pulleth upon his own pate the blood of those that are murdered. The woman who tempted Adam to sin, is said to be bIn the transgression: whereby among other things is implied, that her own and her husbands blood lieth on her. cThis stile given to Jeroboam (which made Israel to sin) showeth that he was the principal in the defection of the ten Tribes: danswerable therefore was his punishment: and ehis causing others to sin is rendered as a reason of the severity of his punishment. Because David was the principal in the murder of Uriah, fhis blood is laid especially to Davids charge. Thus the desolations that came upon Jerusalem, after Manassehs time, are said to be g