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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.
TO THE honourable Robert Sackville, the Noble son and heir apparent to the right Honourable the Lord Buckhurst, Lord high Treasurer of England: and to the right honourable and virtuous Lady, the Lady Anne Compton: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father through Christ, be multiplied for ever.
TO THE HONOrable Robert Sackuill, the Noble sonne and heire apparant to the right Honorable the Lord Buckhurst, Lord high Treasurer of England: and to the right honourable and vertuous Lady, the Lady Anne Compton: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father through Christ, be multiplied for euer.
THE bright beams of your Honours most gracious countenance, showing me favour not inferior to that of Ahasuerus extended towards Queen Ester, when he held out the golden sceptre: and your honourable acceptance (together with the undeserved thankfulness ⟨image 3⟩of those worshipful assemblies, accompanying your honours several times at those spiritual banquets which your honours appointed me the most unskilful of all other to set out; hath caused other blossoms and fruit from the tree of life to spring forth, which the cold of the winter had almost killed. And furthermore, having many goodly plants in my vineyard (as other men have in theirs) both fresh & green, and yet the fruit both bad and small (though they have been pruned and trimmed a long time by other labourers, as by my self): I much marvelled what might be the cause thereof. And digging for a fountain to water my garden, I found a corrupt vain in the earth, that poisoned my trees, and made the fruit naught. A handful whereof I have bound up in paper (because it is ⟨image 3⟩