A01974:69
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.
Ob. Sore judgements fell upon Job: yet were they not consequents of sin.
Ob. Sore judgements fell upon Iob: yet were they not consequents of sinne.
Answ. 1. Surely Job was not free from all sin: lFor there is no man that sinneth not. Before sin seized on man, he was free from all judgement: and as free shall he be, when again he shall be without sin. Therefore Saints in their afflictions have confessed their sins, for which they knew they were deservedly and justly humbled.
Answ. 1. Surely Iob was not free from all sinne: lFor there is no man that sinneth not. Before sinne seazed on man, he was free from all judgement: and as free shall he be, when againe he shalbe without sinne. Therefore Saints in their afflictions have confessed their sinnes, for which they knew they were deservedly and justly humbled.
- l1 King. 8. 46. Sancti in medio tribulationis peccata sua consitebantur, pro quibus se aigne & justè humiliari. noverant. Aug. Epist. 122 ad Victor. de afflict piorum.
2. Distinction must be made betwixt judgements. Some are mfor evidence, proof, and exercise of such graces as God hath endued men withal. Others are for punishments of sin: and they either