A01974:787
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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, ROBERT, Lord RICH, Baron of LEEZ, and Earle of WARWICK. AND, TO THE RIGHT Honourable, the Countess of WARWICK, His most worthy Consort. All Honour that may make to their true Happiness. Right Honourable,
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, ROBERT, Lord RICH, Baron of LEEZ, and Earle of WARWICK. AND, TO THE RIGHT Honourable, the Countesse of WARWICK, His most worthy Consort. All Honour that may make to their true Happinesse. Right Honourable,
THE Divine Providence (whereby all things are wisely ordered) hath by a most sacred, near, firm, and inviolable band knit you two together, and made you one. Most meet it is therefore that the like honour be done, and the like respect testified to the one as to the other: ⟨image 103⟩especially where there is just cause of an answerable respect: as the Author of this Treatise here dedicated to your Honours, hath for the dedication thereof to you both. For,
THE Divine Providence (whereby all things are wisely ordered) hath by a most sacred, neare, firme, and inviolable band knit you two together, and made you one. Most meet it is therefore that the like honour be done, and the like respect testified to the one as to the other: ⟨image 103⟩especially where there is just cause of an answerable respect: as the Author of this Treatise here dedicated to your Honours, hath for the dedication thereof to you both. For,
SIR, This Treatise treateth of War. Your Lordship is known to be a Man of War. It setteth out Joshua, a General of an undaunted spirit. Your spirit hath been proved to be such an one. It showeth how Moses, when he tarried at home, was very solicitous for his countrymen in the field. And is not such your care? Upon mention made of Moses, there cometh to my mind this great commendation (He is faithful in all my house) given to him by God himself. Faithful he was in his own observation of all Gods ordinances which belonged to him. Who of so eminent a place, more eminent then your Honour herein? Faithful he was also in deputing to the Lords