A01974:597
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.
3. It maketh men hard-hearted against the cries of such 1as starve. For men that have for the present, fear that the famine may bring them to want, and thereupon refuse to give to others. Yea dear and tender mothers are forced to stop their ears against the cries of their young children, having nothing to feed them withal, Lam. 2. 12. and 4. 3, 4.
3. It maketh men hard-hearted against the cries of such 1as starve. For men that have for the present, feare that the famine may bring them to want, and thereupon refuse to give to others. Yea deare and tender mothers are forced to stop their eares against the cries of their young children, having nothing to feed them withall, Lam. 2. 12. and 4. 3, 4.
- 1Qui ex opulentioribus esse videbantur, multitudine petentium absterriti, postquam innumera praestilissent, immitem & rigidum animum induebant, verentes ne eandem & ipsi cum petentibus brevi paterentur egestatē. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 9. c. 8. Fames tanta est in Phrygia or•a, ut necessariò incolae patriam relinquerent. Niceph. Eccl. Hist. l. 11. c. 16. Abraham habuit dies malos, quando a same mutabat regionem, & quaerebat •ibum. Aug. Enar. in Psal. 33. Fames admodum exerevit: adeo ut homines ad irrationalium animantium alimenta sint conversi. Niceph. Eccl Hist. l. 10. c. 35. Rebus necessarys desicienti•us prohibitis, insolitis, & exitiosis alimentis u•ebantur. Ibid. l. 15. c. 10.Qui ex opulentioribus esse videbantur, multitudine petentium absterriti, postquam innumera praestilissent, immitem & rigidum animum induebant, verentes ne eandem & ipsi cum petentibus brevi paterentur egestatē. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 9. c. 8. Fames tanta est in Phrygia ora, ut necessariò incolae patriam relinquerent. Niceph. Eccl. Hist. l. 11. c. 16. Abraham habuit dies malos, quando a same mutabat regionem, & quaerebat ibum. Aug. Enar. in