The fall of King Nebuchadnezzar Dan.4.28.29.30. By Henry SmithThe fall of King Nabuchadnezzer Dan.4.28.29.30. By Henrie Smith

Lastly, that which he should have built for the honour of God, as the man built a chamber for the Prophet, he builded for his own honour, as our Nebuchadnezzars do. Therefore when all his pleasures ⟨image 6⟩were prepared like a feast, and he came to sit down at the banquet, it happened to him as to the churl in the Gospel, after he had filled his barns, when he came to sing in his hart, be merry my soul, that night his soul was taken from him and the devils made merry with it in hell: so he had feathered his nest, and began to crow upon his roof, Is not this great Babel, &c. As if he should say, Now Nebuchadnezzar, make thee merry, that hour his honour was taken from him, for a voice came down from heaven like the terrible hand which wrote upon the wall, when Baltazar sate at his banquet, and dashed his pride upon such a rock, that within an hour all his pomp and pleasures and treasures, suffered such a shipwreck, that his ⟨image 7⟩that his fall was more admired of all, than his glory and buildings were admired of himself. Thus all the joy, and pleasures, and glory of pride are spoken with a breath, and stopped with another.

Lastly, that which hee should haue builte for the honour of God, as the man built a chamber for the Prophet, he builded for his own honor, as our Nabuchadnezzers do. Therfore when al his pleasures ⟨image 6⟩were prepared like a feast, and he came to sit downe at the banket, it happened to him as to the churle in the Gospell, after hee had filled his barnes, when hee came to sing in his hart, be merrie my soule, that night his soule was taken from him and the deuills made merrie with it in hell: so hee had feathered his neast, and beganne to crowe vpon his roofe, Is not this great Babel, &c. As if hee should saie, Now Nabuchadnezzer, make thee merrie, that houre his honour was taken from him, for a voice came downe from heauen like the terrible hand which wrote vpon the wall, when Baltazar sate at his banquet, and dasht his pride vppon such a rock, that within an houre all his pomp and pleasures and treasures, suffered such a shipwracke, that his ⟨image 7⟩that his fall was more admired of all, than his glorie and buildinges were admired of himselfe. Thus all the ioy, and pleasures, and glorie of pride are spoken with a breath, and stopt with another.