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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.
§. 11. Of famine in a pious polity.
II. *Famine may be under a pious Governor. Besides the instance of David mentioned in this text, it is expressly noted of the three great Patriarchs, who in their days were the supreme Governors of Gods Church, that athere was such famine in each of their times, as they were all of them forced from their own habitations, and so journeyed in strange countries. bIn the days of the Judges there was a famine in the land. Now all the Judges (except Abimelech, a cruel and tyrannical usurper) were pious Governors, extraordinarily stirred up by God, and extraordinarily gifted and assisted by him. Yet in their days there was a famine: and that as the cgeneration of Pharez giveth evidence, in Deborah's time, who (though a woman) was one of the best Judges.
II. *FAmine may be under a pious Governour. Besides the instance of David mentioned in this text, it is expresly noted of the three great Patriarchs, who in their dayes were the supreme Governours of Gods Church, that athere was such famine in each of their times, as they were all of them forced from their owne habitations, and so journed in strange countries. b