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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.
Many more instances of exceeding great dearth in other Kings times might be added, but these are sufficient.
§. 27. Of uses to be made of the terribleness of famine.
§. 27. Of uses to be made of the terriblenesse of famine.
BY the forementioned instances of famines in this our and, it is manifested what may befall us: how patient the Lord is toward us: what cause we have to fear God, and to take heed how we provoke him to inflict even this judgement, which may prove very fearful, as hath been proved: and finally, how it standeth us in hand, when there is cause to fear a famine, or when a famine is begun, to ⟨p. 172⟩search out the causes thereof, to confess before God our sins, to turn from them, humbly, heartily, earnestly, extraordinarily, with weeping, fasting, and prayers to supplicate mercy of the Divine Majesty. We have a late evidence of the efficacy of such means used. For in the year 1626 it rained all the spring, and all the summer day after day for the most part, until the second of August, on which day by public Proclamation a Fast was solemnly kept throughout the whole Realm of England, and Principality of Wales, as it had by the same Proclamation been solemnized in the Cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent, on the fifth day of July before. On the said second of August the sky cleared, and rain was restrained, till all the harvest was ended: Which proved a most plentiful Harvest. Thus the famine threatened and much feared was with-held. So as Gods ordinances duly and rightly used are now as effectual as ever they were.
BY the forementioned instances of famines in this our and, it is manifested what may befall us: how patient the Lord is toward us: what cause we have to feare God, and to take heed how we provoke him to inflict even this judgement, which may prove very fearefull, as hath beene proved: and finally, how it standeth us in hand, when there is cause to feare a famine, or when a famine is begun, to