A01974:637
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.
7. Public provisions must be wisely distributed: according to the distribution of Manna, whereof they had 1every one according to his eating: that is, according to the number of persons in a family, and according to their age, stature and strength.
7. Publique provisions must be wisely distributed: according to the distribution of Manna, whereof they had 1every one according to his eating: that is, according to the number of persons in a family, and according to their age, stature and strength.
8. Magistrates must be more then ordinarily careful in preserving peace and keeping good order: that neither the rich and mighty oppress the poor and weak (as he that having many flocks and herds of his own, took from a poor 1man that had but one little ewe lamb, that lamb to entertain a traveller that came to him:) nor the poor and needy feloniously and violently take from the rich. In time of famine Magistrates must be the more diligent and careful, because fear of want will make them that for the time have enough, oppress others: and present sense of want will move them that have nothing, by hook or crook to get what they can. And what is violently or fraudulently gotten, will be lavishly spent: and so the famine prove to be the greater.
8. Magistrates must be more then ordinarily carefull in preserving peace and keeping good order: that neither the rich and mighty oppresse the poore and weak (as he that having many flocks and heards of his owne, tooke from a poore