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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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3.1 Again, God bringeth down the proud and wicked men, by driving them into the pit they dig for others. That is, look what evil one man pretends against an other, into such they shall fall themselves. For proof, the cruelty of Cush, Sauls kinsman, was so ⟨p. 89⟩great and outrageous against David, without any just cause, that David was forced to cry unto God against him, saying:2 O let the malice of the wicked come to an end. An other place of holy scripture saith: Malice shall slay the wicked. Again it is said of them, They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly hath prepared deceit, they do even hatch Cockatrice eggs. That is, they are altogether set upon wickedness. But their mischief shall return upon their own head, and their cruelty shall fall upon their own pate. So that any Saint, or soul of the righteous, may in confident boldness say with the Psalmist: The Lord is my refuge, 3and my God is the rock of my hope: and he will recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice; yea the Lord our God shall destroy them. And again it is written: The wicked have drawn their sword, and have bent their bow to cast down the poor & needy, and to slay such as be of an upright conversation. But how shall they prosper? their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. For the Lord ⟨p. 90⟩shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and shall save them, because they trust in him. And thus the Judge of all the world doth exalt himself, and render a reward to the proud. Proud Haman would have hanged meek Mardoche, but he was hanged himself. Pharaoh with the Egyptians, pursuing the Israelites through the red sea said:4 I will pursue, I will overtake them &c. my hand shall destroy them. But they were destroyed themselves. The most valiant men in Nebuchadnezzars army, bound and cast Sydrach, Meshach, and abednego, the servants of the living God, into the hot fiery furnace, but these were preserved, & those were burned and conmed. After this, because Pride always envieth superiority through her ambition, like Corath, Dathan, and Abiram, and the Pope, I will spare the Puritan.