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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.
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, Gen. 23.19. and 25.8.9. & 50.13. with many other. ⟨p. 100⟩And when Moses was dead,3 God sent an Angel and buried him. Thus his majesty regarded the burial of the dead. And when wicked Jezebel died a most cursed death,4 yet John said, Visit now yonder cursed woman, and bury her. And some went, but before they came, the dogs had eat her. Lo though she were the cursed of God, it was thought meet, that she should be buried. Then I condemn the light opinions of those that say, It is no matter what becomes of the body being dead; and I wish them to correct their folly, that deny to bury the dead: and that they would not cease to do good to them that are dead. Well, to the grave with Nebuchadnezzar, those that be proud must come. Which in my Text I take to be spoken Nomine to scorn Pride, because she would be above the clouds, she shall be brought under the earth. Insomuch that toads & serpents, and dogs, and swine, and worms, and whatsoever is vile, which she once disdained, should touch her, shall now tread upon her. Yea stink and rottenness shall so prevail against that body which