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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.
We Ministers that preach the Word of life, must ere long submit tom death; ye have the Heavenly treasure in earthen vessels. And you Magistrates that are the Bulwarks of the Country under God, to preserve us from the shot of a violent death, must necessarily your selves undergo a natural ⟨p. 7⟩death. Ye are calledn the shields of the Earth; yet ye are but Earthen shields. Ye are called the oshepherds of the people; but this Wolf of death will seize as well on the shepherd as on the sheep.
We Ministers that preach the Word of life, must ere long submit tom death; ye have the Heavenly treasure in earthen vessels. And you Magistrates that are the Bulwarks of the Countrey under God, to preserve us from the shot of a violent death, must necessarily your selves undergoe a natural ⟨p. 7⟩death. Ye are calledn the shields of the Earth; yet ye are but Earthen shields. Ye are called the oshepherds of the people; but this Wolf of death will seise as well on the shepherd as on the sheep.
- m2 Cor. 4.7.
- nPsal. 47.9. Scuta terrae sunt terrea scuta.
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