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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.
Secondly saith Augustine, He is proud (Qui in confessione peccatorum non agit penitentiam) which in the confession of his sins doth not repent: like Kain, Saul, Ahab, and Judas. Kain murdered his brother, he confessed his sin, but could not repent.(d) After Saul had sinned & was reproved, he said. I have sinned, I have transgressed the commandments of the Lord, and thy words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore I pray thee take away my sin, &c. (e)Was not this much? yet all this was ⟨image 11⟩but like a sacrifice of swines flesh: because this confession was not washed with tears, wrong out of the heart, with grievous groans of the spirit, which cannot be expressed. Ahab hearing Gods judgements denounced against him for his sins, He rent his clothes, and put Sackcloth upon him, and fasted, and lay in Sackcloth, and went barefooted;(f) yet he could not repent: for the eye of his soul was closed up, that he could not behold the bright beams of the Son of righteousness, appearing with the spirit of regeneration; and so he sunk back to his sin again, as appeareth in the chapter. As for Judas, he said: I have sinned betraying the innocent blood: (g)and he brought again the silver pieces, and cast them down in the Temple, and departed, but he could not wash his soul in the laver of the innocent blood, and take hold of the horns of the altar of Gods mercy. Therefore he went and hanged himself; and hath purchased a field with the reward of iniquity,(h) even hell fire, by his evil gotten goods. Beware you bribe-mongers. Now at this ⟨p. 14⟩day, how many Cains, Sauls, Ahabs, and few so good as Judas have we? many to confess, few to restore, none to repent, then all to be damned. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (i)