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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 set themselues agaynst him who aduaunced them.

Thus he which sets up, can pull 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 dyed a King: but now thy kingdom is departed from thee. Who would be like Nebuchadnezzar, now he 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 been threatened as often as the Israelites, and yet provoked the Lord while he serveth us, like those which curse the sun while it shineth upon them.

Thus hee which sets vp, can pull downe. Did not I sende thee dreames to warne thee? Did not I sende a Prophet to warne thee? If eyther of them woulde haue serued, thou mightest haue ruled still, and walked in thy galleries, and feasted in thy pallace, and iudged vpon thy throane, and dyed a King: but now thy kingdome is departed from thee. Who would bee like Nabuchadnezzar, now he is like a beast? If this heathen was thus challenged for his warning, which had heard but one Prophet, we may tremble to thinke what wee shall answere for our warnings, which haue been threatned as often as the Israelites, and yet prouoked the Lord while he serueth vs, like those which curse the sunne while it shineth vpon them.

Thus have you seen the fall of pride. Even now he said, Is not this great Babel? Now he