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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.
Death natural is described of many in several manner, but the sense or meaning is all one. One saith, death is Metoicesis, tes psuches euthenthe eis alone topon. A removing, Translatio, 1or translating of the soul from hence to another place. An other: Depositio sarcinae gravis. An easing or unlading one of a heavy burden. S. Ambrose saith, death is, Spirandi munere privari: To be deprived of the benefit of breathing.
DEath naturall is described of many in seuerall maner, but the sence or meaning is all one. One saith, death is Metoicesis, tes psuches euthenthe eis allon topon. A remoouing, Translatio, 1or translating of the soule from hence to another place. An other: Depositio sarcinae grauis. An easing or vnlading one of a heauie burthen. S. Ambrose saith, death is, Spirandi munere priuari: To bee depriued of the benefite of breathing.
Againe: Mors est absolutio animae & corporis, & quaedam hominis seperatio. Death is an absolution or discharge of the soul from the body, and a certain separation of man. It is like ⟨p. 106⟩unto a bill of divorcement betwixt man and wife, separating that which before was one flesh. Adultery is the cause of the one: and the devil, sin, and thine own consent thereto, is the cause of the other. But the most affirm, that Mors aliud non est,