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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

to pull downe both man and wife sonnes and daughters sheepe oxen and asses and all things else as Iosuae dealt with Acan. And yet if you will not beleeue let vs see what experience hath taught and by what meanes God hath brought many downe And his arme is not shortned but his hand is stretched out still And for shortnesse sake I will speake but of six braunches which he hath vsed to hang the wicked and abhominable vpon 2. Sam. 18.9 as truly as Absolon vpon the oake CHAP. II. How God ouerthroweth or subdueth the proud 1. FIrst heere to omit the godly lawes of this our land made to suppresse Pride in euerie degree I doo lament the palpable contempt of Gods most sacred word by which Pride and all sinne should be brought downe and humbled Act. 16.29.30 and afraid to remember in what case they keepe men as the Iaylor was to keepe Paul and Silas And men should seeing their sinnes with those in the 2. of the Acts being pricked in their hearts cry out Men and bretheren what shall we do But seeing they will not be learned nor vnderstand let thē know Reue. 19.13.15 that the word of God is a sharpe sword which seperateth betweene the marrow the bone yea it doth either seperate sin from vs or vs from the presence and fauour of God so mightie it is in operation All the beasts of the Forrest do tremble and quake at the roaring of the Lyon but the voyce of the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda is not regarded of the beasts of Pride and silthy sin Well then seeing the matter is so indeed see what the holy Ghost saith most fearfull to be remembred 2. Thes 2.10 Those that shall perish receiue not the word of truth that they might be saued To such Gods word is a sauour of death vnto death spoken by his messengers Mark 8.38 2. Thes 1.7.8 Which who so despiseth shall be despised and confounded For it is written The Lord Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mighty Angels in flaming fire rendring vengeance vnto thē that do not know God and which obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ Whoso liketh this Let him that is filthy be filthy still and thus the Lord God wil bring thee downe Ps 68.1.2 2. God bringeth downe otherwaies the Pride of men euen by confounding their enterprises making their deuises as the Psalmist saith to bee of none effect And this he doth sometimes after one means sometimes after an other 1. By frustrating their counsel and pretence as for example The builders of the Tower of Babel Gen. 11.7 would build to preuent Gods vengeance but he brought them downe by confusion of languages Thus that which they thought should haue bene for their good was vnto them an occasion of falling Synacharib King of Assur thought with the proud Spaniard by an innumerable band of men to ouerthrowe and lay waste the Lords vineyard 2. Reg. 19.35.37.28 35. c. but his strength was ouerthrowne by an Angell and himselfe slaine by his owne children and thus came his Pride downe And wee know how lately the Lord God of heauen tooke the Spaniard and did shake his sword at vs and held vp his rodde against vs to winne vs from sinne And when hee had done so because God knew the Spaniards dwelling his going out and comming in and furie against him and because hee raged and his Pride came vp into his eares like the Pride of Synacharib therefore God put his hooke into his nosthrills and his bridle into his lippes and drew him backe out of our sight and suffered him not to doo vs any harme but God cast them out as the dust before the winde the Angell of the Lord scattered them and their Pride was spoyled in the sea Ps 35.5 Math. 8.32 2. Sam. 17 14.23 as the diuels drowned the heard of swine Againe God confounded the wicked counsell of Achitophel by the good aduise and wisedome of Hushai See the place And when Achitophel did perceiue that his counsell was not regarded hee went home and hanged himselfe And his friends might be glad he had no worse an end Absolon in the Pride of his heart made warre against his father Dauid and thought to haue slaine him and so to haue got his kingdome 2. Sam. 18.6.17 But in the wood of Ephraim where the battell was fought as hee rid vnder an oake there God hanged him by his owne haire see to what vse God puts mans lōg haire and yet some of you will weare it in a brauerie then Ioab came and thrust him through with a dart and the souldiers threw him into a pit and how could it be otherwise but that his guttes were pressed out with that great heape of stones which they cast in vpon him What Pride of any man dooth euer meane to haue such an ende But to be briefe how damnable and daungerous as diuillish and yet in vaine haue beene the counsels and enterprises of the Pope and Spanyard against the ioy of our peace and light of our daies and most ioyfull happines of our time Elizabeth our noble Queene d●ead fou●raigne Yet they alwayes confounded in the craftie wylinesse they haue imagined the only mightie prouidence of GOD preseruing her gracious Ma●estie vnder the couering of his winges because they rebell against him Psal 105.15 Psal 107.22 50.14 Psal 9.11 who onely saith Touch not mine annointed Therefore shall not wee offer vnto the Lorde the sac●ifice of praise and tell out his workes with gladnesse Oh beloued for this cause specially as all other generally Sing praise vnto the Lorde which dwelleth in Sion and tell the people of his doings Let vs declare his louing kindnesse earely in the morning Psal 92.2 and his trueth in the night season and pray that her dayes may be as the dayes of heauen peace within the walles of her Domimon and plenteousnes within her Pallaces the mightie God her only fortresse and shee next vnder him our chiefe happinesse Amen But to proceed the booke of God and histories of many ages doo shewe vnto vs how vilde and yet without effect the pretences of man hath beene against the Church of God from time to time Who is it that desireth not to be ignorant but knoweth the same And therefore let neither the whore of Babylon Gog and Magog of Rome and Spaine nor Synacharib the Turke that vncircumcised Philistine nor wicked Achitophels of Englands counsell nor any domesticall and traiterous Absosolons thinke to preuaile against God and his annointed neither like wilde Boores out of the wood to roote vp nor like wilde beastes out of the forrest of the diuel to spoyle and laie waste the Lordes vineyard whilest it doth yeeld him good fruites of encrease For thogh you goe too and fro in the euening of your blindnesse and barke like Dogges and goe about the Citie of Gods people

is blasphemed and in the end thou thy selfe most like to bee deceiued like one that ouer-sleepeth the Tyde and then cannot take Ship or like the 5. foolish Virgins who sought ●yle when it was too late (p) Math. 25.10 Of such almightie God complaineth by the Psalmist saying The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long furrowes (q) Ps 129.3 By which is ment that to prolong thy sinne and to put off from day to day thy amendment of life still hoping on mercie to haue it at thy will is to plow or digge vpon Gods backe but marke what followeth The righteous Lord hath cut the cordes of the wicked to wit in peeces Heere is a crosse barre or a double gate to stoppe thy way to presumption euen the iustice of God and the execution thereof according vnto truth Ah fellow art got vp to plowe and goare the backe of God hee is iust as well as mercifull and hee will cut in sunder the cordes of thy presumption First hee will frustrate thy hope by which thou drawest on thy sinnes as the Oxen doo the plough by the chaine And to assure thee of this the holy Ghost vseth the time past in this word Hath for the time to come as that it shall so surely bee performed as if it were past alreadie To confirme this the word of God saieth The person that doth ought presumptuously whether he be borne in the Land or a Straunger the same blasphemeth the Lord Therefore that person shall bee cut off from among his people because hee hath despised the word of the Lord and hath broken his commaundement that person shall bee vtterly cut off his iniquitie shall bee vppon him (r) Numb 15.30.31 Paul also will haue no man presume aboue that which is written (ſ) 1. Cor. 4.6.1 And it is written Put not off from day to day for suddenly shall his wrath come and in the time of vengeance hee shall destroy thee This then expect except thou repent c. Thirdly rebellion is an other feather in Prides wing by which shee would heaue vp her selfe in vsurping and stretching her authoritie ouer men wthout lawfull right or true commission forcing them to obey her and leading them captiue after her owne will as well against Gods word as any ordinance of his And heere to goe from time to time from one Common-wealth to an other and view the cause of treasons among subiects towardes theyr Princes and gouernors of warres contentions c. we should find it to bee Pride and loftinesse of minde ambitiously desiring one an others kingdome rising and rebelling through immoderate greedines of glory Which the holy Apostle Saint Iames affirmeth saying From whence are warres and contentions among you are they not herehence euen of your lusts that fight in your members (t) Iam. 4.1 Onely of Pride saith wise Salomon doth man make contention (v) Prouer. 13.10 Looke in Genesis 14. and the second booke of the Kings cap. 18. As in many places more and thou shalt haue examples to confirme this matter And our English Chronicles want no store but Richard the third dooth make mee tremble to name any moe Therefore for this time I wil keepe me at home and as I speake to you so I wil speake of you for you beloued I desire to be taught Will you giue mee leaue in a word to tel some of you how you runne after Pride rebell against God if you will I shall but onely passing along by your coats costs I mean plucke at here and there a weed which hindreth the growing of better corne CHAP. VI. Two chaines to tie vp the branded beast Pride NEcessitie comelinesse for attite firmly fastned to the strong pillar of true humilitie (w) Eccl. 11 4. ought to be the two chaines to tie vp the branded beast Pride branded because shee is of ●iuers colours of starch and trash chan●ing her selfe like the Camelion and ●ltering her fashions like Proteus or Vertumnus neuer remembring that the ●id man which is in the hart should be without all corruption (x) 1. Pet. 3.4 But euen as the false Prophets were schooled by the diuell to speake as the King would haue them (y) 1. Reg. 22.22 so Pride contemneth the spirit of God and saith what haue I to do with thee as the possessed with ●●uels said to Christ (z) Math. 8 29. teaching the flesh as she will haue it For the head ●●ust nod the eies must rowle the bo●●e must iette the tongue must trowle ●●d all as Pride will haue them Soft ●●iment saith Christ is in Kings houses As if there were the fittest and most proper place for rich apparell to be (a) Math. 11.8 because it belongeth to such as are o● the Kings Court The rich glutton rich so he might the more easily do it yet but a glutton and therefore it was no credit to him was cloathed in purple and fine linnen (b) Luk. 16 19. or white Paul the Apostle of Christ teacheth (c) 1. Cor. 11.6.11 that it is a shame for men to weare long haire and for women to pray bareheaded But as the poore man of the proude worldling is thrust to the footestoole d Iam. 2.3 so the counse● of the holy Ghost is set at nought (e) Prouer. 1.30 And men doo weare long haire women doo goe bareheaded with they haire vncouered Come from the Court to the Countrie in rich attire what wanteth th● subiect of the Prince view them with the poore and you shall see of the poorer sort as proud as the rich and th● most of our common women to excell those of the better sort For noueties and chaunge of fashions and toies men and women are as full as a toade 〈◊〉 of poyson Of whom I may speake 〈◊〉 S. Ambrose doth of the couetous Laborant vt quaerant vt inueniāt laborant quid habere non norunt (f) Ambr. li. de Nab. Iere. ca. 13 They toile to get and labour to finde but what they would haue they cannot tell thēselues Come wee to seruants it is well wee must stand to reprooue theyr Pride these though their wages be not great yet their ruffes must be as bigge and ilfauoured as their harts and the cloath as fine as their proud dames with blew starch too Lastly behold our wanton and ruffinly mynions see how without all shame they surmount their callings and contemne God It grieueth me to speake that which they bee not ashamed to do But why do they so Euen as Christ saith of the Pharisies The hypocrites and the Pharisies do their deeds to be seene of men (g) Math. 6.16 23.28 And when are we most proud in apparell but when wee thinke most to be seene of others Then as Saul whom God had cast off from fauour to keepe a peece of credite with the world for with God he had none said to Samuel (h) 1. Sam. 15.