A01974:961
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.
§. 11. Of preparing men to great exploits.
II. *Men deputed to weighty works ought to be prepared thereto before hand. Thus Jonathan, the heir to the crown of Israel, if his fathers wickedness had not forfeited it, was in his fathers time much exercised to war. 2Because God intended that David should be King over Israel, and subdue many enemies, his employments were such before hand, as he could not but be much better thereby prepared to do what he did when he was King. For first he had occasion given him to agrapple with a Lion and a Bear: then with a Giant: after that with the bPhilistines, cand the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the dAmalekites. Yea, Sauls fierce persecuting him was no small means to prepare him the better for his kingdom. eRehoboam showed himself wise in making his son Abijah whom he deputed to the kingdom, Ruler among his brethren. The reason that moved f