A01974:938
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.
2. Servants of elder age are called lads, or youths, or young men: as some of the Lord Majors servants are called. So as this title doth oft signify rather the condition of men, then their age.
2. Servants of elder age are called lads, or youths, or young men: as some of the Lord Majors servants are called. So as this title doth oft signifie rather the condition of men, then their age.
The Matter of the charge containeth in it words of preparation, (Choose us out men) and execution, (Go out, fight with Amalek.)
The first word of the preparation (* choose) implieth a careful and diligent choice upon good trial and proof. iWhere God saith, *I have chosen (or proved thee) in the furnace of affliction, this word is used: as also, kwhere it is said that David gathered together all the *chosen (or choice, or chief) men of Israel. This particle (l us) is an usual redundancy in the Hebrew tongue. Yet is it not without an Emphasis, implying thus much, choose for us, for our use, for ⟨p. 202⟩