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The gods are men
The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Bailiol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed for N. Webb, 1657London: printed for N. VVebb, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortal.The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortall.
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.
How pathetically doth God wish, that man would mind this real wisdom;1 O that my people were wise, then would they consider their latter end; or that they would consider their latter end.
How pathetically doth God wish, that man would mind this real wisdome;1 O that my people were wise, then would they consider their latter end; or that they would consider their latter end.
- 1Deut. 32.29. Vid. 1 Tim. 6.17, 18, 19. Pro. 19.20.
It seemeth to me one of the dolefullest sayings in the book of God, (and by the way let men guilty of bribery or oppression think of it) He that getteth goods and not by right, 1shall leave them in the midst of his days, and in his latter end shall be a fool. To be a fool in the judgment or account of Scripture, while a man liveth, speaketh his condition very dangerous: but to be a fool when he dyeth, speaketh his estate altogether desperate. For a Vessel to leak much in the harbour is sad; but O how sad is it for the Vessel to leak in the main, in the Ocean! It was Austin's prayer, Hic ure, seca, ibi parce, Lord lance me, burn me here, but spare me hereafter.
It seemeth to me one of the dolefullest sayings in the book of God, (and by the way let men guilty of bribery or oppression think of it) He that getteth goods and not by right, 1