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A01974	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.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653. Dignitie of chivalrie.; Gods three arrowes. aut	1631 (1631)	STC 12116; ESTC S103284	362,085	493

and Subjects to Church and Common-wealth then ignominious or any way prejudiciall That there may be better notice taken hereof to enlarge our hearts the more to praise God and to move us the more securely and confidently to cast our care on him I hope it will not be unseasonable here to set down a particular catalogue of such deliverances from the foresaid evils as God hath given us since the beginning of that blessed Queenes raigne §. 93. Of Englands Deliverances since Queene Elizabeth began her Raigne 1. GOD preserved Queene Elizabeth from death in the time of her sister Queene Mary For being charged with conspiracy in the case of S r. Thomas Wyats rising but most unjustly was sent as a prisoner to the Tower An. Dom. 1553. 1. Mar. of London Her death was in those dayes many wayes plotted but by the divine Providence all those plots were disappointed 2. When by the death of Queene Mary the Crowne and Kingdome by just and unquestionable title descended on her the whole Land professed a religion contrary to the Religion 17. Nov. 1558. which she professed and the Peeres and Commons were then assembled in Parliament and that with purpose to settle Popery as it is likely more firmly in this land yet did the Lord move their hearts then and there to acknowledge her title and that by the mouth of Doctor Heath then Arch-Bishop of Yorke and Lord Chancellour of England so as she was forth with openly proclaimed Queen of England and answerably with as great joy and rejoycing as ever Prince was received by her Subjects 3. Being crowned she found a potent Prince namely Henry the second then the French King to endeavour to set An Dom. 1559. Reg. 2. up another title of Mary then Queene of Scots who was maried to Francis his sonne To them they gave this title Francis and Mary by the grace of God of Scotland England Franciscus Maria Dei gratia Scotiae Angliaeo Hiberniae Rex Regina and Ireland King and Queene Answerably they quartered the Armes of England with the Armes of Scotland To settle the said Mary in the roome of Queene Elizabeth an army was sent out of France into Scotland to joyne with the Scots and to invade England and the Pope was dealt withall to declare Elizabeth to be an heretique and illegitimate and Mary to be the true Queene of England But by the Divine Providence all this vanished as smoke into the aire For the Scots refused to joyne with the French against England Yea they desired and obtained aid of Queene Elizabeth to thrust the French out of Scotland 4. Philip King of Spaine earnestly desired mariage with An. Dom. 1559 Reg. 2. Queene Elizabeth notwithstanding his late mariage with Queene Mary sister to Queene Elizabeth Now because Gods Word expresly forbiddeth one man to mary two sisters he pretended to get a dispensation from the Pope But all his endeavours about so impious a matter nought prevailed with so pious a Prince Wherefore he endeavoured to make a mariage betwixt Queene Elizabeth and Charles son of Ferdinand then Emperour and uncle to the said Philip. All was to bring the Kingdome of England to his owne linage and family But neither could this attempt take effect Whereupon Philip King of Spaine became an utter enemy to that royall Queene which enmity thorow the divine providence turned to Queene Elizabeths glory 5. Arthur Poole of the race of George Duke of Clarence An. Dom. 1562 Reg. 4. of the house of Yorke with sundry of his kindred and alliance conspired to set againe on foot the title of Mary Queene of Scots and to bring an army out of France into Wales to make their challenge good but they were before the execution of their plot discovered and themselves condemned 6. After the fore-mentioned emulation yea and enmity betwixt King Philip of Spaine and Queene Elizabeth one Pope after another was much solicited by Spanish and other Papists to excommunicate that pious Prince upon pretence of heresie But till she was made able to stand out against all her enemies God kept away those thunderbolts under Pope An. Dom. 1569 Reg. 11. The forme of this excommunication is in the very words thereof recorded in Camden Annal. rerum Anglic. Hibern Reg. Elizab. part 2. MDLXX Paulus 4. and Pius 4. 7. Pope Pius 5. a man of a fierce and fiery disposition was so farre wrought upon as in the most solemne manner that he could excommunicated and anathematized blessed Queene Elizabeth and caused a briefe thereof with his leaden bull annexed thereto to be fastned to the gate of the Bishop of Londons pallace neare Pauls Church by one Iohn Felton who being apprehended confessed the fact and received condigne punishment on a gibbet before the said gate This excommunication caused many troubles on mans part but withall as many preservations and deliverances on Gods part 8. The Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland thorow An. Dom. 1570 Reg. 12. promises of aid from the Pope and Spaniard raised up a rebellion against Queene and State in the North-parts but were soone discomfited The Earle of Northumberland was taken and beheaded The other Earle fled beyond sea and ended his daies in a poore and meane estate 9. Iohn Story Doctor of Law a spie to the Duke of Alva An Dom. 1570. Reg. 12. conspired with one Prestol a man much addicted to magick and a subject to the King of Spaine against the life of Queene Elizabeth He sent advertisement to the Duke of Alva how he might invade England and make Ireland revolt God bringing this treason to light both Story and Prestol were by a Parliament adjudged guilty of high treason Thereupon they received their just demerit 10. The Bishop of Rosse practiced with sundry English An. Dom. 1571. Reg. 13. men to intercept Queene Elizabeth and to trouble the Parliament then sitting that so another Queene might be set up instead of Elizabeth But there fell out such mutuall mistrust among the Conspirators as their plots turned to their owne damage 11. Iohn Duke of Austria ambitiously affecting the kingdomes of England and Scotland dealt with the Pope and An. Dom. 1576. Reg 18. King of Spaine for aid against England For a pretence of title thereto he sought mariage with the next heire But in the middest of his ambitious projects he suddenly died 12. Thomas Stukely an English fugitive plotted with two Popes Pius 5. and Gregorius 13. to lead forces into Ireland An. Dom. 1578. Reg 20. there to joyne with the Rebells and to conquer it for Pope Gregories bastard sonne For this purpose he was made Generall of 8000 Italian souldiers But by the perswasion of Sebastian King of Portugal he went with his troupes into Mauritania and was there slaine 13. Nicolas Sanders an English Priest went further for he with a banner consecrated by the Pope and an army of An. Dom. 1580. Reg 22. Spaniards

raigne and 61. of his age Being dead his people fell to spoile all he had and left himnaked 6. Richard 1. sonne to Henry 2. having in his fathers life 1189. Iul. 6. vowed a journy to the Holy Land had his kingdome in his absence usurped by Iohn his younger brother Much trouble thence arose in England On notice thereof Richard hasted home but in the way he was taken prisoner by the Duke of Austria Whence though he were after 17 moneths imprisonment with a great ransome released and restored to the Crowne yet both he and his hingdome were in continuall trouble As he was besieging a castle which would have yeelded unto him if onely their lives might be saved but he would not accept it on any condition he was shot with a poisoned arrow and thereof died in the 10. yeare of his raigne and 45. of his age and was buried at his fathers feet whom he confessed he had betrayed 7. Iohn younger brother to the foresaid Richard notwithstanding 1199. Apr. 6. Arthur sonne to his elder brother and true heire to the Crowne by might got the Kingdome But himselfe and his subjects either with others or among themselves were in continuall broiles and had many unsuccessefull warres with French Scots and Welch He was opposed by his Lords deposed by the Pope poysoned by a Monke in the 18. yeare of his raigne and 51. of his age 8. Henry 3. eldest son of the foresaid Iohn began his 1216. Oct. 19. raigne when he was not full 10 yeares old and the State very troublesome The miseries of his raigne were almost infinite by Invasions Rebellions Exactions and the sundry calamities that follow such disasters Lewis the French King entred the land many of the Barons tooke part with him On both sides very many were slaine The King himselfe by his Barons with his brother Richard King of Almain and his sonne Prince Edward taken prisoners There were then slaine 4500. He died in the 57. yeare of his raigne and 67. of his age 9. Edward 1. was enbroiled in war against the Sarazens when his father died There he received three wounds 1272. Nov. 16 with a poisoned knife by a treacherous Assasine but by the daily licking of his ranckling wounds with the tongue of lady Elenor his wife he is said to be cured With much glory he returned home and was victorious against the Scots and Welch Yet those victories were not atchieved without the expence of much English bloud He died as he was going with a mighty host against the Scots in the 35. yeare of his raigne and 68. of his age 10. Edward 2. son to Edward 1. was one of the most miserable Kings that have raigned in England The 1307. Iul. 7. Northerne parts were over-run and harried by the Scots In the battell which was called the white battell 3000 Yorkshire men were slaine by the Scots Rob. Bruse King of Scots invading England burned all the country before him He had much civill warre with his Barons and much bloud was shed on both sides He was at length himselfe imprisoned and deposed in the 20. yeare of his raigne and 42. of his age and about 8 moneths after cruelly broached to death withan hot iron spit 11. Edward 3. son of Edward 2. came to the Crowne in 1326. Ian. 25. his fathers life-time by his fathers forced resignation thereof His raigne was indeed glorious by forraigne victories but the Kingdome was much exhausted of men and mony thorow sundry expeditions into Scotland France and Spaine which occasioned great complaints of his Subjects In his time Southampton was burnt by Pirates and Carlile with other places by the Scots to the losse and vexation of many Subjects At the time of his death all of all sorts forsooke him Onely one Priest is said to be with him when he gave up the ghost in the 51. yeare of his raigne and 65. of his age 12. Richard 2. grand-child of Edward 3. came young to 1377. Iun. 21. the Crowne and by ill counsell and ill courses occasioned many Invasions Oppressions Insurrections Rebellions and last the deposition of himselfe and untimely death Wherupon ensued that fatall division betwixt the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster in pursuit of which quarrell were 13. maine battells fought three a a a Henry 6. Edward 5. Richard 3. Kings besides himselfe b b b Hen. 6. his son Edw 5 his brother two Princes heires apparent 12 Dukes one Marquesse 18 Earles one Viscount 23 Barons besides Knights and Gentlemen innumerable were slaine Richard 2. was deposed in the 23. yeare of his raigne and murdered about five moneths after in the 34. of his age 13. Henry 4. as he got the Crowne by violence so he held it by force not without continuall feare having all his 1399. Sept. 29. raigne either warres abroad or conspiracies and insurrections at home which cost the lives of many Nobles and Commons He died in the 14. yeare of his raigne and 46 of his age 14. Henry 5. sonne to Henry 4. spent most of the time of 1412. Mar. 20. his raigne in warres in France Very victorious he was therein but hastened his death thereby and in the 10. yeare of his raigne and 34. of his age leaving his crowne to an infant What followed thereupon is now to be shewed 15. Henry 6. sonne of Henry 5. was crowned in the first 1422. Aug. 31. yeare of his age with the Crownes of two Kingdomes but that of France which his father wonne was soone lost and this of England was twice pluckt from his head in his life time Many bloudy battels were fought in England betwixt the two great factions of Yorke and Lancaster wherein many thousand subjects perished This King at length was taken and imprisoned the Queene his wife exiled his sonne and heire kild his Counsellours slaine the Crowne conferred on his corrivall in the 39. yeare of his raigne and he himselfe murdered in the 50. of his age 16. Edward 4. being of the house of Yorke obtained the Crowne with much bloud there being in one battell slaine 1460. Mar. 4. 36776 English men There were civill warres almost all his raigne He was taken and imprisoned whence escaping he was forced to fly the land but returning with much hazard to his person and death of many subjects recovered the Crowne but so as his children had little joy thereof On a sudden after a sort he died in the 23. yeare of his raigne and 41. of his age 17. Edward 5. Sonne of Edward 4. was for the space of two moneths and 16 dayes accounted King but never 1483. Apr. 9. crowned For he was murthered in the Tower in the first yeare of his raigne and 12. of his age 18. Richard 3. brother to Edward 4. a bloudy tyrant usurped the Crowne caused his Nephew then King together 1483. Iun. 22. with his brother to be murthered many of his Nobles and others

GODS THREE ARROVVES PLAGVE FAMINE SVVORD In three Treatises I. A Plaister for the Plague II. Dearths Death III. The Churches Conquest over the Sword By WILLIAM GOVGE Doctor in Divinity and Preacher of GODS Word in Black-Friers LONDON EZEK VI. XI Alas for all the evill abominations of the house of Israel for they shall fall by the Sword by the Famine and by the Pestilence Famem pestilentiam bestias pessimas quicquid aliud malorum sustinemus in seculo propter nostra venire peccata manifestum est Hier. Comment l 2. in Ezek. 5. 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. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR THOMAS COVENTRY Knight Lord COVENTRY Baron of Alesborough Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND Right Honourable EVen he that joyned his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vox honorem exhibentis omnia bono precantis Abrek his joyfull applause with the joyfull acclamations of many when your Lordship Gen 41. 43. was first advanced to your honourable place doth now see further cause to adde this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vox congratulantis collandantis Deum Rev. 19. 6. in psal saepissimè Halelu-jah his congratulation praising God for your continuance as in your place so in your approved Integrity which hath beene found as the Apostle saith of the faith of Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c 1 Pet. 1. 7. unto your praise and honour and glory like good gold which from the furnace appeares more solid and resplendent For your kind of judicature according to the nature of your place and your owne purpose is not onely to use Aug. ad Marcel Epist 158. Saint Augustines phrase Iudicis mollire sententiam mitiùs vindicare quàm leges but it is like that which a Zac 8. 16. Prophet calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iudgement of peace which Hier. Comment lib. 2. in Zac. cap. 8. Saint Hierom thus expounds Hoc est judicium pacis ut propositum Iudex habeat pacificare discordes This is no small difficulty since according to the same Hier. Comment lib. 1. in Esa cap. 1. Hierom Non est omnium rectè judicare sed eorum qui prudentes sunt who are made wise from above Therefore Salomon in visione per somnium hoc à Deo postulavit ut accepta sapientia justè populum judicaret Ibid. Salomon in a dreame asked this of God And shall not the praise thereof by him that receiveth it by them that partake of the benefit of it be returned to him from whom descendeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sie distinguo ut denationem ab ipso dono Beza 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But my good Lord least telling the truth of your selfe may seeme flattery to others and flattery neither sorts with your disposition nor becomes my profession give mee leave in mine high esteeme of your Honour and humble expression of mine affection to publish my poore paines under your honourable name wishing I were able besides my observance to your Lordship in my zeale to Gods Church Gemmas offerre But with Origen Quia haec supra me sunt pilas caprarum habere merear c. For whatsoever my weakenesses bee are not these times seasonable I would they were not for such a Subject as is here handled Treatises of Plague and Famine yea and of Warre too For though by the Prudence Providence of our royall Soveraigne Sonne and Heire of the great Peace-maker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warre be kept out of our land yet in other parts of Christendome it and the restrage like over-flowing flouds to the ruine of many States and of true Religion The Lion hath roared who will not feare The Lord God hath spoken who can but prophesie Yet are these Treatises neither to terrifie for what is past nor to prophesie of what is yet to come but rather to heale the wounds that have beene made by the fore-intimated arrowes and to direct us how to keepe the Lord from further shooting out the like It is the part of us Ministers of Gods Word out of his Word to declare what he intendeth and expecteth when he smileth or frowneth on his people Magistrates who by reason of their places are in Canaans language stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods and children of the Psal 82. 6. most high have the power to cause divine directions to bee put in execution Thus therefore doth an ancient Father paraphrase on that text bringing in God himselfe thus speaking to Magistrates I have given you mine own honour and dignity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iustin Mart. Quest Resp ad Orthodox q 142. and title Therefore judge the people as if I my selfe judged it To whom now may those seasonable Treatises which do as it were with the finger point at Gods particular dealing with us be more fitly presented then to him who under his most excellent Majesty hath so great a place and part with others to settle orders for succouring poore people wounded as aforesaid and for sheltring them from those arrowes Of the Treatises thus commended to your honourable Patronage gracious acceptance is in all humility craved by him that professeth himselfe to be At your Honours command WILLIAM GOVGE TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE RIGHT Worshipfull and other my Beloved Parishioners Inhabitants of Black-Fryers LONDON all Happinesse Right Honourable Right Worshipfull Beloved BEhold here a Testimony of my due Respect to you Behold here an Apology for my seeming Neglect of you I do acknowledge that all the Respect which by a gratefull Pastor may be due to a loving People is by me due to you In that respect I do here Treatises presented to my parishioners 1 The whole Armont of God 2 Domesticall Daties 3 A Guide to go to God 4 Gods three Arrowes the fourth time give publike testimony thereof by presenting to you in speciall that which is made publike to all The neglect of you objected against me is my seldome preaching among you this last yeare This ancient undeniable aphorisme Vltra posse non est esse ncc velit quidem A man can do no more then he can giveth a just answer thereto Great hath beene the weakenesse of my body first occasioned by a very dangerous disease in August last how low I was brought thereby many of you are witnesses and further increased by two relapses one in Nov. the other in Febr. following Of Gods goodnes in my recoveries I shall have fit occasion to speake on The Saints Sacrifice shortly to be tendred unto you Had I no other excuse this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Hom. 1. in cap. 1. ad Tit. were sufficient Saint Chrysostome where he granteth that by the weakenesse of Ministers bodies the Churches commodities may be intercepted concludeth that Ministers in such cases are not to be blamed But howsoever my

evidence that II. God can many wayes destroy men By causing the earth to open it selfe he destroyed some by fire he consumed others yet besides these 14700. die of a plague The manner of expressing the former judgements by relation to Korah thus in the matter of Korah giveth proofe that III. The bloud of accessaries lieth upon the principalls Korahs matter was the peoples death In that others died about that matter it further giveth instance that IIII. Accessaries make themselves liable to the judgement that falleth on the principall §. 70. Of a plagues devouring I. * See §. 69. A Plague can quickly destroy a multitude Here within lesse then a day 14700. are destroyed by a plague There is mention made before this of a plague which though the precise number of them that died be not expressed may be thought to have destroyed as many as this plague for it is said that a Numb 11. 33. The Lord smote the people with a very great plague After these but before they went out of the wildernesse at one time there b 259. died in a plague 24000. c 2 Sam 24. 15. In Davids time there died within the space of three dayes almost three times 24000 of a plague viz. 70000. d 2 King 19. 35 In Hezekiahs time when Sennacherib came against Ierusalem there died of a plague in one night more then twice as many of the hoste of Sennacherib as did of all Israel in the foresaid three dayes viz. 185000. Other histories relate very great destructions caused by plagues Thucydides maketh mention of a plague that began at Lib. 2 Belli Pelopon anno secundo Ethiopia fell downe into Egypt and Afrique and into the greatest part of Persia and invaded Athens on a sudden where dying men lay tumbling one upon another Their Temples were filled with the dead Lawes of funerals were broken every one burying where he could find roome And while fires were made to burne some dead corps others were brought and cast thereinto Eusebius recordeth a plague at Alexandria which made Ecclesiast Hist lib. 7. cap. 21. every man to howle thorow the City by reason of the multitude of dead corps which daily fell There was not an house where no course was found And the Heathen there left their dead unburied to be devoured of dogs At Rome when Camillus died there died ten thousand Heurm de peste cap. 1. every day of the plague And under Vespasian and Commodus Emperours two thousand were every day taken away with that infectious disease Vnder Iustinian a plague with such violence fell upon Bizantium and the bordering places as every day there died Alsted in Thesaur Chronol Mirab. Dei an 547. Idem Ibid. an 729. Idem Ibid. an 1348. five thousand and some dayes ten thousand At Constantinople a plague swept away three hundred thousand persons Vnder Charles 4. an Epidemicall plague wasted the whole world for three yeares together At Lubeck it destroyed fourescore and ten thousand and at Florence an hundred thousand In Petrarchs time so fierce a plague invaded Italy that Idem Ibid an 1359. there remained alive scarce ten of a thousand But to leave Forraigne parts we will give some instances of the multitudes of such as have beene devoured by the plague in our owne Country In the raigne of Edward 2. there was so grievous a mortality Stow in his generall Chron. of Engl. an 9. Edw 2. Idem Ibid. an 22. 23. Edw. 3. of people as the quicke might unneath burie the dead In the raigne of Edward 3. a farre greater plague happened It came from beyond sea into the townes and parts of England joyning on the sea-coasts in Dorset-shire where even as in other countries it made the country void of Inhabitants so as there were almost none left alive Thence it passed into Devon-shire and Somerset-shire even unto Bristow where it much raged It came also to Glocester Oxford and London and finally it spread over all England and so wasted the people as scarce the tenth man was left alive When Church-yards were not large enough to bury their dead in they chose certaine fields appointed for that purpose For the dead in London * The Charter-House was afterwards built thereon Register of the Charter-House excarta a peece of ground called Spittle-croft containing 13 acres without the barres of West-Smithfield was purchased enclosed and dedicated In that place were buried the yeare following more then fifty thousand persons * Acts Monum an Edw. 3. 22. An. Dom. 1348. Two thousand are said to be there buried every day from Feb. 1. till the beginning of May following besides those which in other places in and about the City were buried Of that plague there died in Norwich from Ian. 1. to Iuly following fifty seven thousand an hundred and foure and in Yarmouth seven thousand fifty two In Richard the seconds time a great pestilence was in Stow. in his generall Chrō Rich. 2. 15. An. Dom. 1391 Ibid. Edw. 4. 18 An. Dom. 1479 Norfolk and other countries Besides other places in a short time there died therof in the city of York eleven thousand Vnder Edward 4. an innumerable company of people died of the plague in London in divers other parts of the Realm In the raigne of Henry 8. there was such a plague as in Ibid. Hen. 8. 5. An. Dom. 1513 one house to wit the Minories without Aldgate there died 27. professed Nunnes besides lay-people and servants in that house In the raigne of Edward 6. was also a great pestilence In Queene Elizabeths time many English being sent to Ibid Edw. 6. 2. 1548. Ibid Q. Eliz. anno 4. New-haven for the safeguard thereof such a plague there fell as the streets lay even full of dead corps not able to be removed by reason of the multitude that perished From thence the souldiers brought the infection into England Besides those that died in other parts of the Realme there died in London liberties and out-parishes from Ian. 1. 1562. to Dec. 31. 1563. twenty thousand one hundred thirty and sixe besides those which died of other diseases Againe from Dec. 29. 1592. to Dec. 20. 1593. there died in London and the liberries of all diseases 17893. of the plague 10673. In the first yeare of King Iames from Dec. 23. 1602. to Dec. 22. 1603. in London and the liberties thereof there died of all diseases 38578. Of the plague 30578. In the first yeare of King CHARLES from Dec. 22. 1624. to Dec. 23. 1625. of all diseases 54267. of the plague 35417. It hath beene * §. 48. before proved that a plague is an effect of Gods wrath an immediate stroake of his hand Such a stroake must therefore needs be heavy and destroy many where it lighteth especially when the Lord so striketh therewith as he will shew that he is angry §. 71. Of the terrour of a plague O Make not