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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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Yet beloved Pride cannot be contented thus to be like God, (which is too bad allowance of the devil for her) but she doth often usurp most blasphemously, the holy, glorious, and fearful name of God; which ought not so much as to be thought upon without most high reverence & fear,(z) though men, women, & children, so lightly regard it, and by horrible blasphemy so much abuse it, by their usual swearing, contrary to Gods commandment.(a) But it is plain that Pride entering into man, as the devils did into the heard of swine,(b) it carrieth him headlong into the read sea of sin, & makes man believe he is a ⟨p. 47⟩God, and so he suffereth himself to be called. Thus Nebuchadnezzar was called God of Holofernes, saying: Who is God but Nebuchadnezzar? (c)And the king himself said to Sydrach, Meshach, & Abednego: Who is that God that can deliver you out of my hands? (d)When he meant to burn them, as the Papists do the Christians, as if he were God alone. And the Samaritans said of Simon Magus: This man is the great power of God. (e)And we read that this Simon by his conjuring miracles got himself such credit about the City of Rome, that there was set up in the Isle Tyberina an Idolor Image, betwixt two bridges (perhaps because none should pass by, but behold it to his shame) in honour of him, with this inscriptiō. Symoni deo sancto. To Symon the holy God.(f) And when he lived, he said himself that he was some great man.(g) But his end marred all, as we showed before. Like wise when Herod had made an oration before the people, they cried, Vox dei & non hominis. It […] the voice of God, & not of man.