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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.
CHAP. V. How Pride doth ascend.
Now if you would know the steps by which Pride doth clime, or the feathers of her wings which make her to mount, (for she is a winged beast, look else on many women's gowns, but theirs hang down as if they were broken in the flight. It may be some of the wings of their faith are not sound, and that maketh the wings of their gowns be so ill favoured, having more cost upon a pair, then would make a poor child a coat, which they never remember.) Well, though they ⟨p. 26⟩be many, yet at this time I will speak bu• of four, which I take to be the foremost & strongest feathers of her wings And one is disdain, which mounts h•• aloft, by insulting over, despising, an• preferring her self before all other• scornfully contemning her betters, like the Gentiles, who seeing that God ha• cut off the Jews, which were the natural branches, and had grafted them in• being but wild Olive branches,(c) these began to boast against them, despising them: as Hagar did her mistress• Sarai. (d)And so the most whom Go• favoureth above their brethren, they insult over them, & swell one against a• other, like the Corinthians:(e) setting one an other either altogether at nought or else lightly regarding them, as the rich did the poor, among the same Corinthians.