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Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of…Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of…
Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalm; preached at Sergeants-Inn in Fleet-Street. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalme; preached at Sergeants-Inne in Fleet-Streete. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edw, 1620
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.
They are made of one mould: even great-men of the same metal that other men are. What is man, saith one of the Ancients, but lsoul and soil? the one ma puff of wind, and nthe other a pile of dust. What is he, but, as he said sometime of oswine, a little protten flesh, that hath the soul given ⟨p. 34⟩it as salt to preserve it from further putrefaction awhile, as the sear-cloth doth the corps deceased? And no other matter are the greatest or mightiest men made of. They are flesh, as others. qOur flesh, say the poor oppressed ones, is as the flesh of our brethren. And rall flesh is grass, and all the glory of it as the flower of the field: sthat in the morning is green and flourisheth, but ere evening is either cut down by the mowers hand, or decayeth and withereth of it self. They are earth, as others. tEarthen vessels, the Psalmist compareth them to. uEarth they judge, and xearth they are. yJudicani terra• judices terrae: They are earthen Judges, saith▪ Augustine, that judge here upon earth. Nothing but