A15000:81
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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And not only the Angels, but all the creatures which are in heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, ⟨p. 56⟩and in the sea, and all that are in them heard I say, (saith John) praise, and honour, and glory, & power, be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for evermore.(z) And the Angel would not suffer John to worship him.(a) But Pride (indeed she is none of Gods creatures) would have all to honour, and worship, and praise, and fear her: she would be like God. Thus the Samaritans praised Simon Magus, (b)and thus the people extolled Herod. (c)Thus Pride crieth to the hearts of men, saying: Not unto God, not unto God, but unto me give the glory. And this is the cause that we haunt so much, and greedily gape, for to be praised of men, like the Pharisees;(d) to exclude Jesus Christ from his due honour, and glory, and praise, who is ascended into the heavens, and led captivity captive. Pride brings out Simon Magus, speaking to the holy Apostle S. Peter, saying: Dost thou think thy Christ to be therefore great because he ascended from the earth to heaven? (A great piece of work) that can I do. And then he mounted into the air by ⟨p. 57⟩the help of his familiar devil. But he that carried him up let him tumble down alone, and so he was crushed in pieces, with shame enough to all his former conjurings: for he was condemned of all, and no doubt damned of God; there his Pride had a filthy fall.(e) Is not this Pride the poison of the beast, which all they that dwell upon the face of the earth shall worship, whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life, which was slain from the beginning of the world? And they worshipped the beast, saying: Who is like unto the beast? who is able to war with him?