A01974:619
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.
1. Superstitious attributing of plenty to other authors then to the only God from whom all plenty cometh. So did the Jews that said, dWhen we burnt incense, and poured out drink offerings to the Queen of heaven, we had plenty of victuals. Hereupon ethe Lord sware that they should die of famine. So where Israel said, fMy lovers gave me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil, and my drink, the Lord answereth, gI will take away my corn ⟨p. 140⟩in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, &c. I will destroy her vines and her fig trees. &c.
1. Superstitious attributing of plenty to other authors then to the onely God from whom all plenty commeth. So did the Iewes that said, dWhen we burnt incense, and powred out drinke offerings to the Queene of heaven, we had plenty of victuals. Hereupon ethe Lord sware that they should die of famine. So where Israel said, fMy lovers gave me my bread, and my water, my wooll, and my flaxe, mine oile, and my drinke, the Lord answereth, gI will take away my corne ⟨p. 140⟩in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, &c. I will destroy her vines and her figtrees. &c.