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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
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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.
Some men, yea most in the World die twice; the second death hath power over them; but all must die once. The exception of one or two that were translated, and of them that shall be found alive at the coming of Christ,1 will not make void this general rule.
Some men, yea most in the World die twice; the second death hath power over them; but all must die once. The exception of one or two that were translated, and of them that shall be found alive at the comming of Christ,1 will not make void this general rule.
- 1The greatest Landlords are but Tenants at God's will in these houses of clay.
Magistrates that Execute the Statute-law of men, die by a standing Law of God. When God is pleased to give sickness a warrant under the great Seal of Heaven, it quickly executeth its Office and turneth men into Earth. It is thus ordered in God's high Court, that Judges and Justices who now sit on the Bench, shall die and appear at his Bar. The Turkish Historian observeth, that when the great Bassaes are feasting, oftentimes there cometh a Messenger by order from the great Sultan, and casteth a black Mantle over them, and they are presently forced to submit to strangling: So the proudest Potentates in the midst of their mirth, are often surprised by a sudden distemper (commissionated by God) and sent to their long homes.1
Magistrates that Execute the Statute-law of men, die by a standing Law of God. When God is pleased to give sickness a warrant under the great Seal of Heaven, it quickly executeth its Office and turneth men into Earth. It is thus ordered in God's high Court, that Judges and Justices who now sit on the Bench, shall die and appear at his Bar. The Turkish Historian observeth, that when the great Bassaes are feasting, oftentimes there commeth a Messenger by order from the great Sultan, and casteth a black Mantle over them, and they are presently forced to submit to strangling: So the proudest Potentates in the midst of their mirth, are often surprized by a sudden distemper (commissionated by God) and sent to their long homes.