A01974:598
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.
4. It forceth such, as otherwise would deal justly, to use fraudulent and violent means to get their living. So much doth he intimate, who praying against extreme poverty, rendereth this reason, Least I steal (Prov. 30. 8, 9.) and he who said; Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry, Prov. 6. 30.
4. It forceth such, as otherwise would deale justly, to use fraudulent and violent meanes to get their living. So much doth he intimate, who praying against extreme poverty, rendreth this reason, Least I steale (Prov. 30. 8, 9.) and he who said; Men do not despise a thiefe, if he steale to satisfie his soule, when he is hungry, Prov. 6. 30.
5, It puts men upon dangerous attempts, and makes them desperate: according to the proverb, Hunger makes men break through stone walls. The desperate resolution of the hunger-starved lepers giveth instance hereof, (2 King. 7. 4.) It was this, Let us fall unto the host of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live: and if they kill us, we shall but die. We got our bread, say the Jews, with the peril of our lives, Lam. 5. 9.
5, It puts men upon dangerous attempts, and makes them desperate: according to the proverb, Hunger makes men breake thorow stone walls. The desperate resolution of the hunger-starv'd lepers giveth instance hereof, (2 King. 7. 4