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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.
O unspeakable folly! to make much of the Cabinet and disesteem of the Jewel, to trim the Scabbard and let the sword rust; like Shimei to seek their servants and lose themselves. Man in regard of his body claimeth kindred with the beasts of the field, in regard of his soul with the Angels of Heaven; and yet this bestial part is pampered whilst the Angelical is starved.
O unspeakable folly! to make much of the Cabinet and disesteem of the Jewel, to trim the Scabbard and let the sword rust; like Shimei to seek their servants and lose themselves. Man in regard of his body claimeth kinred with the beasts of the field, in regard of his soul with the Angels of Heaven; and yet this beastial part is pampered whilst the Angelical is starved.
It is storied of Archimedes that when Syracuse was taken by the Romans, he was secure in his Closet,1 drawing circles with his Compass in the dust, and was then and there slain. So these men ordinarily leave the Earth when they are most busy about it.
It is storied of Archimides that when Syracuse was taken by the Romans, he was secure in his Closet,1 drawing circles with his Compasse in the dust, and was then and there slain. So these men ordinarily leave the Earth when they are most busie about it.
- 1Plut. in vit. Marcel.Plut. in vit. Marcell.
How did the fool in the Gospel promise himself a long and a comfortable life? Soul take thine ease,