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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.
The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortal.
The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortall.
Psal. 82. v. 6, 7. I have said, Ye are gods: and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the Princes.
Onea of the Fathers resembleth the whole Bible to the visible Heavens, wherein saith he, the Psalms are like the Sun, whose beams shine brightly, and rays warm comfortably. An English Divine compareth all the Scriptures to the body of Man,2 and the Psalms to the heart, the most Pathetic part, the seat and centre of sweet affections. Nay as one observeth, the very Turks, that disclaim both Old and New Testament in general, yet will swear as solemnly by the Psalms of David, as by the Alcoran of Mahomet. But what need have we of the testimony of men? when God is pleased to give such large witness in the Gospel to this book of Psalms. In which the Psalms are quoted above sixtyb times. The Apostle calleth them spiritual csongs, both because they were ⟨p. 2⟩inspired by the holy Spirit of God, and because they are instrumental to spiritualize mens affections, and also because they do suit with mens spirits; they are so penned, that every man may think they speak de se, in re sua, of himself and to his own condition.