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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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Secondly. Pride will be like God, in ⟨p. 59⟩taking vengeance upon whom she list, wringing the sword out of Gods hand, and those unto whom he hath committed it. Therefore the Pope setteth himself against God & his Church, whereof Christ Jesus is the head and saviour of the whole body. 1. Proclaiming rebellion, & encouraging subjects to treason against their Prince. 2. By rattling his excommunications. 3. By dispersing his Bulls to depose Princes. 4. By private practising to murder Princes. 5. By conjuring and poisoning, to effect these devilish purposes. 6. To teach perjury to subjects, and dispense therewith by the pardons of their Agnus Dei, &c. And this he doth, only because his heart saith, being poisoned with Pride, Vengeance is mine. Come from him to Ahab the king, let Elijah reprove his sin, and Jezebel will vow his death.(k) Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the Prophets of Baal with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying: The Gods do so unto me: and more also, if I make not thy life like one of their lives, by ⟨p. 60⟩to morrow this time: As if she had said, the devil take me, and all the devils in hell, if I be not revenged upon thee by taking away thy life, as thou hast done theirs, by to morrow this time. But she died unrevenged, and the devils had their legacy. Learn then not to punish without cause, neither let them handle the sword unto whom it doth not belong, as Zedekiah did,(l) and other. Likewise, if the man of God displease Jeroboam, then crieth he, Lay hold on him: (m)but men should suffer rebuke and that gladly, for open rebuke is better then secret love (saith Solomon).(n) Yet for all that, if Mardoche despise Hamans Pride, then Mardoche his blood will not quench Hamans thirst, but his wrath will have the death of all the Jews,(o) like the Pope, &c. Pride slew Abel,