A01974:791
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 TRULY NOBLE, AND MOST WORTHY OF ALL HONOUR, SIR NATHANAEL RICH [Greek or Hebrew]. SIR,
TO THE TRVLY NOBLE, AND MOST WORTHY OF ALL HONOUR, SIR NATHANAEL RICHE 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. SIR,
Your own Worth, The public good Service which you have done to this State, The true Zeal which to the Honour of God, and Good of his Church you have on all occasions manifested, do all challenge all the honour that can be done to a man of such desert. The ancient acquaintance which hath been even from your childhood betwixt you and me, The entire familiarity that was betwixt us while we were Students in Cambridge, The Continuance thereof by mutual ⟨image 105⟩Latin Letters about Scholastical disputes, (Bono enim literarum eadem ferè absentes, quae si coram essemus consequimur) when we 1were parted, And finally, the many favours which in this time of acquaintance you have showed me, do, in special require of me all grateful remembrance. For, [Greek or Hebrew]. Wherefore having here an opportunity of giving public testimony of the high esteem I have of you, and of the reverend respect I bear to you, I do most willingly take it. cIt was the commendation of the golden age, that a friend would testify all the respect he could to his friend. True it is, that in regard of your noble birth, your eminent dignity, your excellent endowments, there is betwixt us (to use the