A01981:1835
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Section 125: §. 125. Of the seasonable succour afforded to oppressed Germany.
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.
If the small army with which he came into Germany, and the great things which he hath done since he came thither, be duly weighed, we shall see cause to acknowledge that the Lord of hosts was with him.
That which is by experience noted of the snow, that by being tumbled up and down, of a little ball it comes to be a great heap that can hardly be stirred, is likewise by experience found verified in his army.
That which is by experience noted of the snow, that by being tumbled up and downe, of a little ball it comes to be a great heape that can hardly be stirred, is likewise by experience found verified in his army.
1We read of a dream which a soldier of the huge host of the Midianites that for multitude was as the sand by the sea-side, thus related to his fellow, I dreamed a dream, and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled unto the host of Midian, and came unto it, and smote it, that it fell and overturned it, that the tent lay along. The interpretation, which in the event proved most true, was this, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
1We read of a dreame which a souldier of the huge host of the Midianites that for multitude was as the sand by the sea-side, thus related to his fellow, I dreamed a dreame, and loe, a cake of barley bread tumbled unto the host of Midian, and came unto it, and smote it, that it fell and overturned it, that the tent lay along. The interpretation, which in the event proved most true, was this, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the sonne of Ioash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.