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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.
§. 22. Of the means of famine ordered by God.
§. 22. Of the meanes of famine ordered by God.
Means of famine are such as these.
MEanes of famine are such as these.
1. The heavens with-holding rain. For the earth is dry of its own nature: being dry it can yield no fruit. The ordinary means of watering and moistening it, is rain from heaven. Where that is with-held, the earth waxeth dry and barren: and living creatures want that sustenance which should maintain their life. But it is God that causeth the heavens to with-hold rain. aI (saith the Lord) I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. Iron can not dissolve into water, nor brass yield out fruit. The meaning then is, that heaven over them should yield no rain, nor the earth under them, fruit. More plainly saith the Lord in other places, bI will command the clouds that they ⟨p. 155⟩rain no rain upon it. cI have with-holden the rain from you. I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city. As an evidence hereof, dElijah prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.