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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.
Yet we see by experience, that many die like Lambs, whilst their souls are amongst Lions,1 and they are going to the place of Dragons. We read there are no bands in the death of rich wicked men, Psal. 73.4. And that phrase in Job. 21.13. In a moment they go down to the grave, is generally interpreted thus, They die quickly and quietly. In quiet in infernum descendunt, saith an Expositor, like a Lamp that goeth out of it self when the Oil faileth. So Cesar said, the day before he was slain, Finis vitae commodissimus est repen•inus & inopinatus. And Julian the Apostate said, Vitam reposcenti naturae, tanquam de bitor bonae fidei, redditurus, exulto. But this quietness ariseth or rather carnal security to them, not from any knowledge of their good estate, but from ignorance of their bad estate. A wicked mans hope is like the giving up of the Ghost, Job. 11.20. He breaths out his soul, life, and hope together.
Yet we see by experience, that many die like Lambs, whilst their souls are amongst Lions,1 and they are going to the place of Dragons. We read there are no bands in the death of rich wicked men, Psal. 73.4. And that phrase in Job. 21.13. In a moment they go down to the grave, is generally interpreted thus, They die quickly and quietly. In quiete in infernum descendunt, saith an Expositour, like a Lampe that goeth out of it self when the Oyl faileth. So Cesar said, the day before he was slain, Finis vitae commodissimus est repen•inus & inopinatus. And Julian the Apostate said, Vitam reposcenti naturae, tanquam de bitor bonae fidei, redditurus, exulto. But this quietness ariseth or rather carnall security to them, not from any knowledge of their good estate, but from ignorance of their bad estate. A wicked mans hope is like the giving up of the Ghost,