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Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enjoined by authority, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispersed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalm. Whereunto is annexed a brief tract of zeal. / By I. Dod. R. Cleaver.Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer.
London: printed by T.C. for William Welbie, 1611
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.
Which maketh first of all for the terror of all proud and arrogant men,1 who may look for a great deal of woe and misery, for the expelling of this poisoned humour out of their souls. Let such therefore remember what is said concerning them,2 to wit, that all the proud in heart are an abomination unto the Lord: though hand join in hand, they shall not be unpunished. And again, Pride goeth before destruction, and an high mind before the fall. And in the 119. Psalm:3 thou hast destroyed the cursed proud: and in the Epistle of James, God resisteth the proud. 4Let these and the like terrible sentences fright their drowsy consciences, and unless they would have the Lord to abhor them, to curse them, to fight against them, and utterly to destroy them, let them sue unto him, who alone is able to heal them of this loathsome corruption: otherwise their case is very woeful, and lamentable, and the more account they make of themselves, the more clearly will God manifest his heavy displeasure against them, as he did against Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod, and such other lofty spirits as they were.
Which maketh first of all for the terrour of all proud and arrogant men,1 who may looke for a great deale of woe and miserie, for the expelling of this poysoned humour out of their soules. Let such therefore remember what is said concerning them,2 to wit, that all the proud in heart are an abomination vnto the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, they shall not be vnpunished. And againe, Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall. And in the 119. Psalm:3 thou hast destroyed the cursed proud: and in the Epistle of Iames, God resisteth the proud. 4