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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.
Now for Hezekiah. The fifteen years are said to be added, not that his time to die appointed from the beginning, was then come: for though the Prophet told him Thou shalt die and not live. It is true: yet he told him not when: and at his repentance and contrition, those fifteen years were added as a blessing, not to the definite time of his age, which was unchangeable, but to that time of his sickness.
Now for Hezechias. The fifteene yeares are said to be added, not that his time to die appointed from the beginning, was then come: for though the Prophet told him Thou shalt die and not liue. It is true: yet hee told him not when: and at his repentance and contrition, those fifteene yeares were added as a blessing, not to the definite time of his age, which was vnchangeable, but to that time of his sicknesse.
Then what use is there of physic?
Then what vse is there of phisicke?
1. Even to preserve health, and to prolong thy days in ease, which else should be consumed in pain. For as thy end is appointed of God certain, so are the means unto the same end, and they must not be despised.
1. Euen to preserue health, and to prolong thy daies in ease, which else should be consumed in paine. For as thy end is appointed of God certaine, so are the meanes vnto the same end, and they must not be despised.