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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.
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.) It was this, Let us fall unto the hoste 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 Iewes, with the perill of our lives, Lam. 5. 9.
6. It maketh many, if at least they can get passage, to fly their country; and so voluntarily to banish themselves. Abraham and Isaac, by reason of famine, went to countries where they supposed themselves to be in great danger for their wives (Gen. 12. 10, 12. and 26. 1, 7.) A famine caused Jacob with all that belonged to him, to go down into Egypt. (Gen. 46. 6.) and Elimelech with his family to go to Moab (Ruth. 1. 1.) and the Shunemite with her household to go to the Philistines, (