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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.
Surely, i.e. Though ye should flatter your selves because ye are gods, ye shall ever live, yet know certainly that ye are but men, and must die. All God's words are true and sure; but on some there is affixed a special note of certainty, because of mans (especially great persons) extraordinary infidelity. Though ye should neither regard it, nor provide for it, as if it were a thing of small consequence, or little concernment, Yet eye may say to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my brother and sister.
Ye shall die like men. Your souls and bodies that have been joined together like husband and wife, shall be parted asunder: Death will loose all bands, untie all knots, even this conjugal one, 'twixt soul and body, which is the strongest of all.
Ye shall die like men. Your souls and bodies that have been joyned together like husband and wife, shall be parted asunder: Death will loose all bands, untie all knots, even this conjugal one, 'twixt soul and body, which is the strongest of all.
eLike men. i. e. Like ordinary men; like Adam, saith Ainsworth: Though in your lives ye are like Saul, higher by the head and shoulders then the people; yet in your deaths they and you meet, are equal.
- eSicut plebeius homo. Tremel.