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

This is the Epitaph, as it were, which God engraveth upon Nebuchadnezzar's sepulchre.

This is the Epitaph, as it were, which God ingraueth vppon Nabuchadnezzers sepulchre.

Be thou an example to kings and rulers, for all the children of pride to beware how they set themselves against him who advanced them.

Be thou an example to kings and rulers, for all the children of pride to beware how they sette themselues against him who aduanced them.

Thus he which sets up, can pull ⟨image 19⟩down. Did not I send thee dreams to warn thee? Did not I send a Prophet to warn thee? If either of them would have served, thou mightest have ruled still, and walked in thy galleries, and feasted in thy palace, and judged upon thy throne, and died a king: but now thy kingdom is departed from thee, who would be like Nebuchadnezzar, now the king is like a beast? If this heathen was thus challenged for his warning, which had heard but one Prophet, we may tremble to think what we shall answer for our warnings, which have bin threatened as often as the Israelites, & yet provoke the Lord while he serveth us, like those which curse the sun while it shineth upon them.

Thus he which sets vp, can pull ⟨image 19⟩down. Did not I send thee dreams to warne thee? Did not I sende a Prophet to warne thee? If either of them would haue serued, thou mightest haue ruled still, and walked in thy galleries, and feasted in thy pallace, and iudged vppon thy throne, and died a king: but now thy kingdome is departed from thee, who woulde bee like Nabuchadnezzer, now the king is like a beast? If this heathen was thus challenged for his warning, which had heard but one Prophet, wee may tremble to thinke what wee shall aunswere for our warninges, which haue bin threatned as often as the Israelites, & yet prouoke the Lord whil he serueth vs, like those which curse the sunne while it shineth vpon them.