A01974:889
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.
Ob. Were the two sons of Jacob, who first set upon the Shechemites and slow all the males among them, (Gen. 34. 25.) and Joshua, who went and fought against the Canaanites, and utterly destroyed them, Jos. 12. 7, &c. and David, who went and smote the Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, Syrians, and other nations, (2 Sam. 8.) were these and others of the people of God-blinded with hatred, and whetted on with malice, in that they first set upon their enemies?
Ob. Were the two sonnes of Iacob, who first set upon the Shechemites and slow all the males among them, (Gen. 34. 25.) and Ioshua, who went and fought against the Canaanites, and utterly destroyed them, Ios. 12. 7, &c. and David, who went and smote the Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, Syrians, and other nations, (2 Sam. 8.) were these and others of the people of God-blinded with hatred, and whetted on with malice, in that they first set upon their enemies?
Answ. 1. All particular actions of such as are otherwise good men are not every way justifiable, and imitable. Instance that of qSimeon and Levi which their old good father by divine instinct cursed.