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A godly treatise, entitled the view and down-fall of pride Wherein is declared the…A godlie treatise, intituled the view and down-fall of pride Wherein is declared the…
A godly treatise, entitled the view and down-fall of pride Wherein is declared the cause of Babylons destruction, and Nebuchadnezzars subversion. Set forth by William Wheatley Master of Art, and preacher of Gods word.A godlie treatise, intituled the view and down-fall of pride Wherein is declared the cause of Babylons destruction, and Nabuchadnezzars subuersion. Set forth by William Wheatley Maister of Art, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Thomas Creed for John Deane and John Baily, 1602London: printed by Thomas Creed for Iohn Deane and Iohn Baily, 1602
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2. God bringeth down otherwaies the Pride of men, even by confounding their enterprises, & making their devises (as the Psalmist saith) to be of none effect. And this he doth sometimes after one means, & sometimes after an other. 1. By frustrating their counsel and pretence: as for example.
2. God bringeth downe otherwaies the Pride of men, euen by confounding their enterprises, & making their deuises (as the Psalmist saith) to bee of none effect. And this he doth sometimes after one means, & sometimes after an other. 1. By frustrating their counsel and pretence: as for example.
The builders of the Tower of Babel, 1would build to prevent Gods vengeance, but he brought them down by confusion of languages. Thus that which they thought should have been for their good, was unto them an occasion of falling. Sennacherib King of Assur, thought with the proud Spaniard, by an innumerable band of men to overthrow and lay waste the Lords vineyard:2 but his strength was overthrown by an Angel, and himself slain by his own children: and thus came his Pride down. And we know how lately the Lord God of heaven took the Spaniard, and did shake his sword at us, and held up his rod against us, to win us from sin. And when he had done so, because God knew the Spaniards dwelling, his going out, and coming in, and fury against him: and because he raged, and his Pride came up into his ears, like the Pride of Sennacherib, therefore God put his hook into his nostrils, and his bridle into his lips, and drew him back out of our sight, and suffered him not to do us any harm, but God ⟨p. 85⟩cast them out as the dust before the wind, & the Angel of the Lord scattered them, and their Pride was spoiled in the sea,3