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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.
2. The many real demonstrations, and evident testimonies of that entire respect, which from time to time you have given me.
2. The many reall demonstrations, and evident testimonies of that entire respect, which from time to time you have given me.
3. Your vouchsafing to take my daughter into your house, under your good government, and to become a mother to the motherless. Among many other, this is one thing which gives me occasion to say in regard of my last dangerous sickness, It is good for me that I was afflicted. That sickness was an occasion of your taking my daughter to your tuition. What is, what ought to be a fathers care, but (next to the salvation of his own soul) the good education of his children? What can be more acceptable to him, then approved means tending to that end? May I then, can I then be unmindful of her, or ungrateful to her that hath afforded such means? Have I not cause to be inquisitive, and to think and say, What shall I render? Render a recompense I cannot. All that is or can be ⟨image 74⟩done, is and can be but a testimony of gratitude. Such testimonies as are ordinarily presented for new-years-gifts, your bounty (I know) doth not expect, will not accept. Noble spirits do herein resemble the Divine Spirit, which doth good for his own sake, for goodness sake. All the recompense which they expect is a grateful acknowledgement of the kindness they show, of the goodness they do. This from my heart I do here before all that shall cast their eyes upon this Dedicatory Epistle.
3. Your vouchsafing to take my daughter into your house, under your good government, and to become a mother to the motherlesse. Among many other, this is one thing which gives me occasion to say in regard of my last dangerous sicknesse, It is good for me that I was afflicted. That sicknesse was an occasion of your taking my daughter to your tuition. What is, what ought to be a fathers care, but (next to the salvation of his owne soule) the good education of his children? What can be more acceptable to him, then approved means tending to that end? May I then, can I then be unmindfull of her, or ungratefull to her that hath affoorded such means? Have I not cause to be inquisitive, and to thinke and say, What shall I render? Render a recompence I cannot. All that is or can be