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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
Part 2 › Chapter 15: A brief note of Hell.Part 2 › Chapter 15: A briefe note of Hell.
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. XV. A brief note of Hell.
CHAP. XV. A briefe note of Hell.
Now to her destruction, to the sides of the •it: that is, everlasting death and damnation. Not that I counsel you to go thither, but that I fear many will: and I would forewarn you of that place of torments. The God of heaven give us grace to be warned whilst we have time: for it will be too late to seek for help, as Dives did, when the gate of grace shall be shut against us.
NOw to her destruction, to the sides of the •it: that is, euerlasting death and damnation. Not that I counsell you to goe thither, but that I feare many wil: and I would forewarne you of that place of torments. The God of heauen giue vs grace to be warned whilest we haue time: for it will be too late to seeke for helpe, as Diues did, when the gate of geace shall be shut against vs.
The proud heart of Nebuchadnezzar persuaded it self to get above the clouds, as the Spaniard spiteth us, and to be like the most high God, that is, he determined to take Jerusalem, which the Lord had chosen to be an habitation for himself, and of Pride he meant to tread down the people of God under his feet, as the Pope did the Emperor. But he is brought down, (and so shall (I trust) the Spaniard, if our Pride and sin hold him not up) to the grave, even to the sides of the pit. By which is meant, that Pride shall have the greatest torments and chiefest room in hell of all other sins, because on earth she hath been the foremost & chief ringleader of all other.1 Qui similis esse volebas deo: pro coelo demersus es in tenebras inferni. Thou which wouldest be like unto God, in stead of heaven, thou art drowned or plunged in the darkness of hell. It is even the same judgement which the Son of God Christ Jesus, denounced against proud Capernaum, saying: And thou Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.