A01974:566
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.
It cannot be denied but that the Scripture sometimes so transposeth histories. Neither will I much contend about the transposing of these histories. No great inconvenience will follow thereupon. Yet the ground of all seemeth not to be very sound. For by many arguments it may be evinced that those forty years before mentioned, are not to be accounted the forty years of Davids reign.
It cannot be denied but that the Scripture sometimes so transposeth histories. Neither will I much contend about the transposing of these histories. No great inconvenience will follow thereupon. Yet the ground of all seemeth not to be very sound. For by many arguments it may be evinced that those forty yeares before mentioned, are not to be accounted the forty yeares of Davids raigne.
For first, beside that there is no mention of Davids reign in that place, the phrase is thus expressed in the original, fFrom the end of forty years. Now its more probable that David ended his reign rather within the forty years, then beyond them. Because both in sacred Scripture, and other writings, the year wherein a King dieth is computed ⟨p. 131⟩in the years of his reign: so as, if David had reigned full forty years, and entered into another year, he would in a round reckoning have been said to have reigned one and forty years. Now if Absalom began his rebellion at the end of forty years, and David reigned no longer then forty years at the most, how could so many things as are noted of Absaloms rebellion, and the consequences following thereon, be done in so short a time?
For first, beside that there is no mention of Davids raigne in that place, the phrase is thus expressed in the originall, fFrom the end of forty yeares. Now its more probable that David ended his raigne rather within the forty yeares, then beyond them. Because both in sacred Scripture, and other writings, the yeare wherein a King dieth is computed