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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.
4. The words are construed thus, Like the Princes that have been before you. Ye know that your Ancestors who were as high in honour and as great in power as your selves, yet submitted to death; so must ye do as they have done. Etiam muta clamant cadavera, Their graves amongst you do read a Lecture of mortality to you.
4. The words are construed thus, Like the Princes that have been before you. Ye know that your Ancestours who were as high in honour and as great in power as your selves, yet submitted to death; so must ye doe as they have done. Etiam muta clamant cadavera, Their graves amongst you do read a Lecture of mortality to you.
The term whereby the Spirit of God describeth death, is considerable; its called a fall, and fall like one of the Princes.
*Sin is called a fall, and so is death. Death is the firstborn of sin; and therefore no wonder if the Child be called after the name of its Parent.