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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. III. Whither proud men shall be brought down.
CHAP. III. Whither proud men shall bee brought downe.
The Text saith: First to the grave, then to the side of the pit. Of death I observe, 1. The division. 2. The description. 3. The necessity. 4. The certainty. 5. Why some men do tremble and quake: Other do joy at the coming of death. 6. Whether we are to mourn for our friends that be dead.
The Text saith: First to the graue, then to the side of the pit. Of death I obserue, 1. The diuision. 2. The description. 3. The necessitie. 4. The certaintie. 5. Why some men do tremble and quake: Other do ioy at the comming of death. 6. Whether we are to mourne for our friends that be dead.
When Death hath seized upon man,1 then the grave is a meet habitation for the carcass:2 And when this may not be had, it is a great plague of God: as it is a blessing to attain unto Christian burial: which of duty those that live ought to perform to the dead corps, after the examples in these places of the word of God,