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.
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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.
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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London :: Printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible, at the great north doore of Pauls,
1631.
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Providence and government of God -- Early works to 1800.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01974.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
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§. 2. Of the Summe and Resolution of the Text.
THe Summe of this Text is An incouragement against all that man can do.
Hereof are two parts
1. The ground
2. The kind
of incouragement.
1. The ground is taken from Gods Providence. And it is
1. Propounded, Vers. 29, 30.
2. Applied, Vers. 31.
Its propounded in two instances.
1. The least of creatures in use.
2. The least of things appertaining to man.
Hence two arguments of incouragement may be drawne from the lesse, as the schooles speake. * 1.1
The first may be thus framed.
That God which hath his providence exercised on
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sparrowes, hath it much more excercised on Saints. * 1.2
But your God and Father hath his Providence exercised over sparrowes.
Therefore your God and Father hath his Providence much more exercised over you.
The proposition is thus proved.
That God which extendeth his Providence to things of small value, doth much more extend it to you that are of more value.
But your God, &c.
Therefore your God, &c.
The second argument taken from the least of things ap∣pertaining to man, may be thus framed.
If God by his providence number all your haires, much more your dayes.
But the first is true.
Therefore the second.
The Kind of encouragement is in this Inhibition. Feare ye not.