A01974:66
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.
§. 3. Of judgements as consequents of sin.
§. 3. Of judgements as consequents of sinne.
I. *Judgements are consequents of sin. Take a view of the judgements recorded in Scripture, and you may easily find sin to be the cause of all. The first that ever was inflicted on a creature was athe casting down of Angels into hell: But these are expressly said to be Angels that sinned. 3The next was on the Serpent, to whom the Lord thus said, cBecause thou hast done this thou art cursed: In like manner to Adam, dBecause thou hast eaten, &c. Cursed, &c. Thus ethe general deluge of the world, the fburning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the gplagues of Egypt, hthe judgements in the wilderness, iin the time of the Judges, and afterwards, were all for sin. But not to insist on more particulars in a case so clear, the Wiseman expressly saith, k