A01974:97
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.
§. 10. Of the grounds that Ministers now have to foretell judgements.
Ob. Ministers have not now such certain knowledge of Gods mind, as of old the Prophets and Apostles had, to whom God did immediately and infallibly make known his mind.
Ob. MInisters have not now such certaine knowledge of Gods minde, as of old the Prophets and Apostles had, to whom God did immediatly and infallibly make knowne his minde.
Answ. We have a more sure word, namely the holy Scriptures, 1which are given by inspiration of God. These show what sins do most offend God, and what do soonest pull down vengeance from God, upon the committers of them. So as when Ministers see such sins impudently and impenitently committed, they may well infer that God purposeth to send some judgement to such a people. To this purpose is it that the Apostle reckoneth up sundry sins that the Israelites committed in the wilderness, and judgements that followed thereupon, that we should not sin as 2they did, and fall after the same ensample of unbelief or 3disobedience.