A01974:740
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.
Because reference is often made to the history of Flavius Josephus of the wars of the Jews concerning the extremity of famine in the last siege at Jerusalem, by the Romans in the days of Vespasian the Emperor, I think it meet in the end of this Treatise distinctly to relate the said history so far as it concerneth the famine.
BEcause reference is often made to the history of Flavius Iosephus of the warres of the Iewes concerning the extremity of famine in the last siege at Ierusalem, by the Romanes in the dayes of Vespasian the Emperour, I think it meet in the end of this Treatise distinctly to relate the said history so farre as it concerneth the famine.
The famine of the City, and the desperation of the 1thieves both increased alike, every day more and more; so that now there was no more corn found. Wherefore the seditious persons brake into the houses, and searched every corner for to find corn; and if after their search they found any, then they did beat the owners for denying it at the first; and if they found none, they tortured the householders, as having more cunningly hidden it: And whosoever was yet strong of body and well liking, him they presently killed; for hereby they deemed him to have store of food, or else he should not have been in so good plight of body as he was. And they that were pined with famine, were by these barbarous seditious people slain, who esteemed it no offence to kill them, who would shortly after die, though they were left alive. Many, both rich, and poor, secretly exchanged all that they had for one bushel of corn, and 2presently shutting themselves in the secretest room of their houses, some of them did eat the corn as it was unground: others made bread thereof, as necessity and fear required. No man in the whole city sate down to eat his meat on a table, but greedily taking it, not boiled from the fire, they (even raw as it was) did ear it. Most miserable was this manner of living, and a spectacle which none without tears was able to behold; for the strongest still got the most, and the weakest bewailed their misery: for now famine was the greatest calamity they endured. And nothing doth arm men more then shame: for during this famine no reverence