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A15000	A godlie treatise, intituled the view and down-fall of pride Wherein is declared the cause of Babylons destruction, and Nabuchadnezzars subuersion. Set forth by William Wheatley Maister of Art, and preacher of Gods word.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 25304; ESTC S113244	73,130	192

for himselfe he sheweth his minde euen that hee desired to be loose hand to be with Christ which is best of all Thus holie men after they once beginne with Henocke to walke with GOD Wis 4.10 that is in godlinesse to please God as he did they iudge none blessed before their death Which the verie Heathen confessed Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet Ouide li. 3. Met. The meaning is to be accounted blessed none should before their last end Thē though the righteous be preuented with death Wisd 4.7 Luk. 16 22 23.43 Luk. 2.28 yet shall he be at rest in Abrahams bosome in Paradice with Christ that is in the kingdome of heauen Therefore when death commeth these do say ioying with Simeon when hee had seene Christ Psal 4.8 Lord now lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace according to thy word Or with Dauid Psa 116.7 I will late me downe and sleepe in peace for thou Lorde onely makest mee dwell in safetie therefore returne vnto thy rest ô my soule Thus peaceably and ioyfully of such faithfull men death is louingly imbraced And euery day the Apostles desire to bee with Christ How death is and is not to be wished for is preferred to any worldly consolation or ioy Not as wishing the determinate decree of God concerning our end to be altered as those blasphemous people do who vpon euery occasion or crosse wish themselues out of the world or that they had neuer bene borne with such like like kinde of cursed speaking but expressing our choyse and loue betwixt life temporall and death 2. Cor. 5.8 and therein submitting our selues vnder the mightie hand of God Thus death is imbraced and louingly entertained of the children of God for diuers considerations CHAP. XIII Why death is neuer feared of the godly FIrst because with that aged Father the Patriarke Iacob Gen. 47.9 Heb. 11.13 1. Cron. 29.15 Ps 39.12 1. Pe. 2.11 Gen. 15.13 47.4 we make account that our life is but as a pilgrimage and our selues straungers Pilgrimes or soiourners on the earth as the seed of Abraham were in a land that was not theirs Straungers continue not in a place and we looke for a better home For as the Tabernacles of the Israelites were to be remooued euen so are ours Exo. 33.7 2. Cor. 5 5. Num. 15.2 2. Cor. 5.4 Their abiding place hoped for was the land of promise and ours is the kingdome of heauen figured by theirs where mortalitie shall be swallowed vp of life Therfore it is written Heb. 13.14 Here we haue no continuing citie but we seeke one to come For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle be destroyed we haue a building giuen of God e●● an house not made with hands but eternall life in the heauens So that whilest we are strangers in the body 2. Cor. 5.1.6 we are absent from the Lord. Therfore we forget that which is behind Phil. 3.13 14. and indeuour our selues vnto that which is before and followe hard towardes the marke vnto which death guides vs as is before shewed Therefore it is called a Waye 1. Reg. 2 2. Iob. 16 22. Aretius de Morte that brings vs vnto God A quo in hunc mundum sumus peregrinatum missi of whom we are sent into the world to abide there as straungers vntill death come And then Anima ad caeleslia colligitur corpus suis restituitur elementis ad suū vsque tempus The soule is taken into the heauens and the bodie is dissolued into his elements vntill his appointed time An other writer saith that death Oslij instar est Gualt in Has 13. Hom. 44. aut viae per quam nos ex hac vita mortali in immortalitatem transire oportet is like vnto a doore or a waye through which wee must passe out of this mortall life into immortalitie And it may not amisse be compared vnto the starre Mat. 2.9 10. that guided the wise men till they came to the stable where the blessed babe Christ lay in the manger and death brings vs to behold Christ glorified in the heauens at the right hand of his father Ioh. 20.20 When they saw the starre they reioyced with an exceeding great ioy like the Disciples which were glad when they had seene the Lord. And shall we be sorrie to mee●e with death that brings vs vnto God Christ healing one lying vpon his bed sick of the palsie Mat. 9.6 said Arise take vp thy bed and goe to thine house Euen so when death commeth she may say to our soules in our bodies sick vpon our beds as the Prophet of God did to Israel in an other matter Arise and depart for this is not your rest Mich. 2.10 He that had bene sicke arose and departed to his owne house And beloued why should not we at the commaundement of God when he saith by death come Loue to remoue out of the bodie and to dwell with the Lord 2. Cor. 5.8 being here but strangers in a vaile of miserie One saith Vita quid est hominis nisi vallis plena malorum Principio medio fine dolenda suo What is mans life but a vaile of griefe still tumbled in strife His springtime's woe Autumne is so Winter hath sorrow as rife And therfore Mors pro remedio data est quasi finis malorum Ambr. in orat de fide resue Chris de popu Antioch Hom. 7. Death is giuen vs for a remedie as the end of all troubles it being A vitae curis absolutio The absolution frō the cares of this life And therefore carefully to be expected and willingly imbraced without any feare Secondly we haue great cause to reioyce at the comming of death because by it we passe from infinite troubles to the end of our faith euen the saluation of our soules long hoped for Which is an inheritance immortall and vndesiled that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for vs. 1. Pet. 1.9 c. Vnto the hope whereof wee are begotten by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead So that we account of death but as of an happy hauen wherin we do arriue and are at ease from infinite turbulent stormes which we haue suffred in the surging seas of this wicked world Morborum vltimus medicus mors Aret. Stella Chrysost vt ante tantum corporis tollit mala Death is the last Phisitian or helper of our paine● which onely riddeth away the griefes of the body Portus est mortalibus mors Of Chrysostome it is called Tranquillus portus Death a calme hauen for mortall men where they arriue to behold the faire beautie of the Lord and to visit his Temple In many places of holy scripture Death is called a Sleepe Because that euen as sleepe and quiet rest is to a painfull honest labouring man at night most sweete and comfortable so lkewise is Death to a

better to conuey it vnto a Presbytery The Officers thereof and their number and what their office should be in an established Common-wealth cannot be prooued by any scripture neither can our new reformers tell themselues For they chaunge their opinions as the Camelion doth his colours Or as the wise man saith Like a foole that chaungeth as the Moone (e) Eccl. 27 11. And their writings as wel as their words declare what these men haue in their heart (f) Eccl. 27.6 Now name Pride harnessed with discontentment and thou hast found the souldiers that fight their battles and their scoldings are grieuous for to heare c. (g) Eccl. 27 15. Furthermore you know that Haman could not be contented with all his promotion being preserred by King Ahasuerus to be the chiefe man vnder him in all the Prouinces of his dominion but he obtained a Commission to kill all the Iewes onely of spight vnderserued of any but by Gods prouidence they were deliuered and Hamans discontented Pride was discharged by his owne gallowes (h) Ester 3. 7. This made Ahab he could not be quiet without Naboth his vineyard (i) 1. Reg. 21.15.16 Pride is neuer contented like her sister Conetousnesse I would our coat were without this stain But with Balaam I am afraid many follow the reward of iniquitie May wee not pray that the Fullers sope might get this spot out of theyr cloath If they could silkes and veluets would not be in so great request nor the Countrie cloyed with so many singlesolde gentlefolke carrying more vpon their backes needlesse at once then would comfort the poore at theyr boordes a whole moneth And thinke you that you bee none of these schismatickes of Martins crew If they were well looked vnto it may bee you should finde theyr tables in theyr Farme-houses as mouldie as many Pulpets are full of copwebbes for want of vsing Dooth not this keepe mens pittie from the poore ●ow they lament I will not speake but I would from God exhort the rich ●n time for to take compassion on them (k) Gal. 6.10 And though of many their hearts ●re hardned yet because the crye of ●he poore is knowne to her Maiestie ●nd to the wisedome of her Maiesties honourable Councell doubt not beloued but that speedie remedie and helpe is appointed Onely this I say that whole Countries and Nations by this sinne of minde malecontent rise one against an other fewe content with their owne Patrimony only our dread soueraigne and most gracious Queene dooth hold the garland from them all God saue her life for euer Amen What needs further proofe where experience is plaine She ioyeth more most renowmed Queene in sauing one drop of her subiects blood then in winning of a whole Kingdome and therefore shee is content with her owne long ô Lord let her enioy it to the great example of all other O pray for the peace of Ierusalem euen litle England Christ saith Learne of me and if any would learne of her Maiestie what need either ioyning of house to house or laying of field to field till there be no place for the poore that ye may bee placed by your selues on the middest of the earth (l) Esa 5.8 Why should there bee such racking of rents such colde hospitalitie dearth of corn and all other things since there is plentie But it is easie to shewe that where Pride once setteth her foote vpon discontentment or ingrafteth this feather into her wing there God is forgotten and fewe contented with that which is Aequum iustum nor with their owne then away with equitie yea and equalitie too euery churle must be a gentleman Pride will be like God These be foure sicke feathers in Prides wings vnder which who so shrowdeth himselfe is couered from the fauour of God Away from him all ye workers of iniquitie Goliah said I defie the hoast of Israel this day (m) 1. Sam. 17.10 But God doth defie the house of Pride for euer that will not turne For it is written Hee that hath high lookes and a proud stomacke doth his soule abhorre And wise Salomon saith These sixe things doth the Lord hate yea his soule abhorreth seuen the haughtie eyes a lying tongue c. Loe Pride is the first as captaine of the rest (n) Pro. 6.16.17 And thus much of this matter But peraduenture it may be thought that I haue a grudge to some of you as Salomon had to Shimei (o) 1. Reg. 2.36 c because I tell you the truth so boldly and plainly Now beware you grudge not me as as Saul did Dauid (p) 1. Sam. 18.9 I can wash my hands in innocencie and cleare my selfe of this matter Innocentia est vbi non est nocendi voluntas (q) Amb. li. de bono Mor. ca. 1 That is innocencie which is without desire to hurt Augustine saith Duo sunt genera persecutorum vituperantium adulantium Nam plus persequitur lingua adulatoris quàm manus persequentis (r) Aug. in Ps 69. There are two kindes of hurting or persecuting enemies that is backbyters and flatterers for the tongue of the flatterer woundeth or hurteth more then the hand of a sworne enemie for so the meaning is Againe hee saith Nemo peritorum aut prudentium putet c. There is no man of vnderstanding and wisedome but seeth more danger or harme to be by a lying and flattering rongue then by the hands of a murtherer (ſ) Aug. ad Casul 4. ad Demet. Ep. 14● For Dauid still fled from Saul when he came to kill him and so was saued (t) 1. Sam. 18.11 But Absolom by flattery caught his brother Ammon and slew him (v) 2. Sam. 13.28 29 So Ioab murthered Abner and Amasa (w) 2. Sam. 3.27 Againe Augustine saieth that Flatterie makes men colde in Religion (x) Aug. in Ps 69. Therefore Iesus Christ saith Feare not them that kill the body (y) Math. 10.28 And the Prophet Isay saith Feare not crye aloud spare not lift vp thy voyce like a Trumpet and shewe my people their transgression (z) Isay 43.1 51.1 And the holy Apostle S. Paul saieth Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a father and the younger men as bretheren (a) 1. Timot. 5.1 Put both together and this lesson may be learned not to doo the worke of the Lord negligently (b) Ier. 48.10 and yet patiently to rebuke and to be instant in season and out of season but yet in loue (c) 2. Timot. 4.2 That wee may bee blamelesse and pure as the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middest of a noughtie and crooked Nation in the which we shine as lights in the world holding foorth the word of life c. (d) Phil. 2.15.16 Therefore I know what to doo I tell you the truth why doo you not beleeue me I cannot speake with glosing words of mans wisedome (e) 1.