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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.
§. 6. Of the cases wherein we must seek to slake Gods wrath.
§. 6. Of the cases wherein we must seeke to slake Gods wrath.
THE foresaid course for averting judgement is to be taken, 1. When the fire of Gods wrath flameth about our ears, and bath consumed many before our eyes, as hthe Plague did in Davids time. 2. When there is but a smoke which showeth that fire is kindled though it flame not forth: as when Moses heard God say, iLet me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, &c. Threatenings of judgement are to Gods wrath, as smoke is to fire. Such smoke made the Ninevites repent.3 3. When we observe causes that may kindle and inflame Gods wrath to abound, as all manner of notorious sins. They were the sins of the people which made kChrist weep over Jerusalem. By them he gathered that heavy vengeance must needs fall upon her. 4. Though we apparently see no flame, nor smoke, nor notorious cause: yet when we have just cause to suspect and fear all, or any of these. Thus it is noted of lJob, that when the days of his children's feasting were gone about, he sent and sanctified them, &c. For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned, &c. Because he suspected that they might have provoked Gods wrath, he used means to pacify the same.
THE foresaid course for averting judgement is to be taken, 1. When the fire of Gods wrath flameth about our eares, and bath consumed many before our eyes, as