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…

First because with that aged Father the Patriarch Jacob, ¹we make account, that our life is but as a pilgrimage: and our selves strangers & Pilgrims, or sojourners on the earth, as the seed of Abraham were in a land that was not theirs. Strangers continue not in a ⟨p. 149⟩place: and we look for a better home. For as the Tabernacles of the Israelites were to be removed, even so are ours.² Their abiding place hoped for, was the land of promise: and ours is the kingdom of heaven figured by theirs: where mortality shall be swallowed up of life. Therefore it is written,³ Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. For we know, that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle be destroyed, we have a building given of God, e•• an house, not made with hands, but eternal life in the heavens. So that whilst we are strangers in the body,⁴ we are absent from the Lord. Therefore we forget that which is behind,⁵ and endeavour our selves unto that which is before, and follow hard towards the mark, unto which death guides us, as is before showed. Therefore it is called a Way, ⁶that brings us unto God. A quo in hunc mundum sumus peregrinatum missi, of whom we are sent into the world, to abide there as strangers, until death come. And then Anima ad caeleslia colligitur, corpus suis restituitur elementis, ad suū usque tempus, The soul is taken into ⟨p. 150⟩the heavens, and the body is dissolved into his elements until his appointed time. An other writer saith, that death Oslij instar est, ⁷aut viae, per quam nos ex hac vita mortali, in immortalitatem transire oportet, is like unto a door, or a way, through which we must pass out of this mortal life into immortality. And it may not amiss be compared unto the star,