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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
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Thirdly he is proud saith Augustine. Qui illa ipsa pauca quae videtur habere bona, sibi vult arrogare & derogat misericordiae dei. Such (Paul saith) are proud, boasters,(p) which do arrogate or attribute unto themselves those few good things, which they do but seem to have (for indeed they have none)(q) and so do diminish the mercy of God. Which is to rob God of his honour, as do the Pelagians and Papists, who putting their trust in their works, as some put their confidence in horses and chariots, never remembering the name of the Lord, and grace of God in Christ, may have a name to live, but they are dead with the Angel of the Church of Sardis, because they remember not how they have received, and heard, and hold fast and repent:(r) namely, that salvation is of the Lord(s) and that there is no good thing in man, but that which is wrought by the holy Ghost.(t) Without me (saith Christ) ye can do nothing. Paratur enim voluntas a domino. For mans ⟨image 13⟩will is prepared of the Lord,(v) to every good work. And now for the war betwixt the Papists and us about this point: this peace I proclaim, as Ambassador from the Lord: That faith is a supernatural knowledge, wrought by the holy Ghost in a regenerate man, by which he is assured of eternal salvation through Christ,(w) and good works do approve this knowledge to be sound and true.(x) If the tree be good, so is the fruit also, and the tree is known by his fruit.(y) And thus as faith and works cannot be separated by the sun and his light, fire and heat: so ô Lord unite the Papists and all other Heretics to us, and thy true Church militant, that we may all worship thee in one spirit and truth. If this beam of Pride were once plucked out of mens eyes, the bright sun-light of the truth of Religion would clearly appear, and all men would walk as in the day time.