What it is viz. the graue Secondly the vtter destruction and finall ouerthrowe of Pride and proud men impenitent in hell whereof note 1. the true being and certaintie of that place for the damned Secondly the torments thereof wherein is 1. Most horrible paine 2. Confused woe 3. An euerlasting continuance of the same CHAP. II. A view of Pride SOme follow euill counsell to their own destruction like Ahab and Ahaziah (o) 1. King 22.23 Some mens wicked deuice turn to their owne confusion like the builders of the Tower of Babell (p) Gen. 11.8 Ede cace boule to bouleusanti caciste Euil counsel worst wringeth the councellor himselfe Mee thinkes it is no wisedome to triumph before the conquest Benhadad King of Aram or Syria sent greatly threatned Ahab king of Israel the effect of the Text is to tread him his people vnder his feete Ahab sent answer againe saying Tell him that girdeth his harnesse on let him not boast himselfe as he that putteth it off 1. King 20.11 Now a litle you heare what Pride saith but she maketh no reckning of her ende but that will quaile her Pride what is that why shouldest thou aske But indeed the Sunne in his brightnesse is not seene of him that dooth winke neither doth any truth preuaile with them that will not heare and beleeue Pride is as common as corne is like to be plentifull For this praise the Lord ô my soule and all that is within mee praise his holy name and pray that corne may be kept in the Land for the coÌ„fort of the poore For I feare the diuell wil Pride though he neuer want store And because she strutteth in euery streete I need not seeke farre as desirous to finde her but am â—â—â—â—ing to speake to her wishing to reforme her Loe shee starts out of my Text in shape of a monster as the diuell did out of the earth in Samuels likenesse (r) 1. Sam. 28.13.15 and hath as long a reach as the diuells kingdome is large (Å¿) Math. 4 8. Shee will ascend aboue the cloudes and she will be like God it may bee shee meanes as the diuell was like Samuel therefore she here saith I will I will This is all her reason for it she thinks this may serue Stet pro ratione voluntas But her reason is as strong as his foundation was firme that laid it vpon the sand (t) Mat. 7.26 both the buildings must downe From this her double desire which to obtain she is as greedie as the Lion of his pray I will make her knowne vnto you by this description Pride is an vntamed lust of the heart rebelling against God in exalting that which he would haue cast downe euen the Flesh and in casting downe that which hee would haue exalted that is the Spirit Against which God made a law specially for Princes because they should be good examples to their people (v) 2. Sam. 3 35.36 and generally for all other because the subiect should not bee proud (w) Num. 15.28 saying The King must haue the law read the lawe and keepe all the words of this law c. that his heart bee not lifted vp aboue his brethren That is the more higher of calling the more humble in condition they should be (x) Deut. 17 20. If Princes ought not to bee proud subiects ought not to aduenture it Therefore the holy Ghost saith to all Bee not high minded but feare (y) Ro. 11.20 Learne of mee saith Christ that am meeke and lowly in heart and yee shall finde rest vnto your soules (z) Mat. 11 29. As if he should say if you be proud you shall finde no rest for your soules For cursed are all they that doo erre from thy commaundements (a) Ps 119 21. If you would see further what Pride is S. Augustine saieth Amor excellentiae superbia vocatur (b) Aug. de verb. domini Ser. 54. The loue or desire of renowne or to be exalted is called Pride Who then is not proud who so toucheth pitch is defiled therewith (c) Eccl. 13.1 Pride is like pitch Therefore Augustine saith it is The head and cause of all other sinnes (d) Aug in Psal 18. Againe he saith it is of all other sins the Beginning end and cause Beâ—â—â—â—â— it is not onely a sinne it selfe but that there neuer hath beene is or shall be any sinne Sine superbia without Pride (e) Aug. ad Iulia. epist 3 Nay further it straineth euen our good deeds (f) Act. 12.23 and therefore saith Augustine Caetera vitia in malefactis valent sola superbia etiam in recte factis est cauenda (g) Aug. in Ps 50. lib. de natura gra all other sin in wicked deeds doth appeare onely Pride in our good deeds we ought to beware for it is like the hearb Coloquintida where that is in the pot the broath is neuer good and where Pride is all our workes are abhominable And as for our wicked deeds (h) Aug. Ser. 54. de verb. domini Prior est in vitijs superbia in them Pride first setteth foote aboorde for Pride is the originall of sinne (i) Ecclesi 10 14. If you aske how it can be sinne the Apostle saith that of many Couetousnesse is the roote of all euill (k) 1. Timo. I will answere you froÌ„ the auncient holy Father S. Aug. (l) Aug. ad Iulia Epist 3. Superbia cupiditas in tantum est vnum malum vt nec superbia sine cupiditate nec sine superbia possit cupidus inueniri Pride and couetousnesse are thus one euill or do consent in one that neither a proud man can bee found without couetousnesse nor a couetous man without Pride They are like two â—â—rlots which make but one body (m) 1. Cor. 6 If you desire to heare of her any more I wil omit that Pride which is most common for it is sufficiently knowne and I will speake of that which is least suspected CHAP. III. Foure kindes of proud men appealed SAint Augustine speaketh of three sorts of proud men (n) Aug. in Ps 93. vnto which froÌ„ the Apostle I wil adde a fourth First they are proud Quibus parum est qùod mala faciunt sed sua peccata defendere volunt which make small account of sinning and will also haue an excuse for their sinne like Adam Aron Saul and Ionas Adam sinned and cast the fault vpon the woman and shee sought to excuse her selfe by the Serpent (o) Gen. 3.12 but all would not serue Aron made a golden calfe to be worshipped and when he did see Moyses his zeale and anger against it he cast the fault vpon the people (p) Exod. 32 33.34 Saul sinned against God in lauing that which he was commaunded to destroy And when he was reproued for it by the Prophet hee straight had his excuse ready Forsooth the people did it to offer
Cor. 1.17.19 I preach Christ crucified and teach you to crucifie the olde man and his lusts Be not you like the Gaderenes who because their swine were gone desired Iesus to depart out of their coastes (f) Math. 8.34 Be not like the Philistines and men of Asdod Who because their Idoll Dagon could not stand by the holy Arke but still fell downe and was broken sent away the Arke of God to keepe their Idoll still (g) 1. Sam. 5 1. c. But forsake your sinnes and keepe Christ (h) Reue. 3.20 burne your Idolls of sinne and confesse the Arke of Gods couenant Let not your sinnes flatter you and entice you though they be as importunate vpon you to thrust you out of Gods fauour as SampsoÌ„s wife was vpon him to get away his strength as she did indeed therefore hee was ouercome of the Philistines (i) Iudg. 16.15.16 to 21. and so shall you of the diuell at his will But if God be God go after him and if Baall or Pride or Vsurie c. be hee then follow them For no man caâ— serue two maisters you cannot seruâ— God and Mammon (k) Math. 6.24 Now then confesse I enuie none I grieue at youâ— sinnes And the holy Prophet of God teacheth me who saith Fret not 〈◊〉 selfe because of the vngodly men neithâ—â— be thou enuious against the euill dooers (l) Ps 37.1 Yet he saith also It grieueth me becauâ—â— men keepe not thy lawe (m) Ps 119.158 But mâ—â— should not grieue the holy spirit of God by whom we haue commission as well to reprooue your sinne as to instruct you in the truth of Gods holy will neither should you hate vs because we tell you the truth as the Iewes did Christ (n) Ioh. 8.40 or as Herod did Iohn the Baptist (o) Mat. 14 3.4 If you do The seruant is not greater then his Lord and Maister (p) Ioh. 15.20 13 16. And here withall remember what the Maister Christ Iesus saith comforting his faithfull seruants against obstinate contemners of his word Whosoeuer as well Princes Potentates Prelates as people shall be ashamed of me and of my words among this adulterous and sinfull generation of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed also when he commeth in the glory of his father with his holy Angels (q) Mar. 8.38 And here I will rest for this time Wee see in Pride a contempt of all other in regard of her self and how she dooth mount aboue the cloudes in desire to tread them vnder her feete and she cannot be content with this but she will be like God which is here the second vanitie of Pride CHAP. VII How Pride would be like God Pride may be said to be like God either in some proprieties or else in name First her propertie is to exalt her selfe and desire to be praised and held in honour as much or rather more then God Secondly she challengeth vengeance to her felse to plague whom she list In Name shee is like God because shee vsurpeth or challengeth to be called God OF the first wee haue heard something alreadie how Pride dooth seek to exalt her self aboue the clouds and being got vp into this perswasioÌ„ of her selfe then she lookes that all should feare her and extoll her and doo forsoothe all reuerence and worship vnto her as the diuel would haue had Christ do vnto him (r) Math. 4.9 And here the Pope steppes in for his interest but wee will put him backe vntill anon telling him and his nurse Dame Pride that when God shall come in iudgement against them Then the Lord onely shall bee exalted in that day (Å¿) Isay 2.11.17 The Lord of Hoasts shall be exalted in iudgement the holy God shall be exalted in iustice (t) Isay 5.16 For it is written I will arise saith the Lord now will I bee exalted now will I lift vp my selfe (v) Isay 33.10 Therefore the Psalmist in this respect remembring the promise of God in which the faithful patiently expect the fall of the proud and their owne deliuerance singeth Not vnto vs ô Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue thy glory for thy louing mercie and for thy truth sake (w) Ps 115.1 Thus Dauid so earnestly in his Psalmes exhorteth the childieÌ„ of God to praise the Lord (x) Ps 106. 136. which subdueth our enemies vnder our feete And the Euangelist Saint Iohn sawe all the Angells fall before the Throne on their faces and worship God saying Amen praise and glory and wisedome and thankes and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euermore Amen (y) Reu. 7.12 And not onely the Angels but all the creatures which are in heauen and in the earth and vnder the earth and in the sea and all that are in them heard I say saith Iohn praise and honour and glory power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne and vnto the Lambe for euermore (z) Reu. 5.13 And the Angell would not suffer Iohn to worship him (a) Reu. 22.8.9 But Pride indeed shee is none of Gods creatures would haue all to honour and worship and praise and feare her she would be like God Thus the Samaritanes praised Symon Magus (b) Act. 8.10 and thus the people extolled Herod (c) Act. 12.22 Thus Pride cryeth to the hearts of men saying Not vnto God not vnto God but vnto mee giue the glory And this is the cause that wee haunt so much and greedily gape for to be praised of men like the Pharisies (d) Math. 6.16 to exclude Iesus Christ from his due honour and glory and praise who is ascended into the heauens and led captiuitie captiue Pride brings out Symon Magus speaking to the holy Apostle S. Peter saying Doost thou thinke thy Christ to be therefore great because he ascended from the earth to heauen A great peece of worke that can I doo And then he mounted into the ayre by the helpe of his familiar diuell But he that carried him vp let him tumble downe alone and so hee was crushed in peeces with shame inough to all his former coniurings for hee was condemned of all and no doubt damned of God there his Pride had a filthy fall (e) See Niceph lib. 5. cap. 16. Eccl. Hist. Is not this Pride the poyson of the beast which all they that dwell vpon the face of the earth shall worshippe whose names are not written in the Lambes booke of life which was slaine from the beginning of the world And they worshipped the beast saying Who is like vnto the beast who is able to warre with him (f) Re. 13.4 The holy Ghost saith Feare ye the Lord all ye his Saints And again Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the mightie God of Iacob But now Pride will be regarded this is an Idoll set vp in euery corner and who dooth not flee
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 theÌ„ 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 theÌ„ 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 loÌ„g 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 dâ—ead fouâ—raigne Yet they alwayes confounded in the craftie wylinesse they haue imagined the only mightie prouidence of GOD preseruing her gracious Maâ—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 sacâ—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
In all this did not Iob offend nor charge God foolishly And thus much for the down-fall of Pride CHAP. XV. A briefe note of Hell NOw to her destruction to the sides of the â—it that is euerlasting death and damnation Not that I counsell you to goe thither but that I feare many wil and I would forewarne you of that place of torments The God of heauen giue vs grace to be warned whilest we haue time for it will be too late to seeke for helpe as Diues did when the gate of geace shall be shut against vs. The proud heart of Nabuchadnezzar perswaded it selfe to get aboue the cloudes as the Spaniard spiteth vs and to be like the most high God that is he determined to take Ierusalem which the Lord had chosen to be an habitation for himselfe and of Pride hee ment to tread downe the people of God vnder his feet as the Pope did the Emperour But he is brought downe and so shall I trust the Spaniard if our Pride and sin hold him not vp to the graue euen to the sides of the pit By which is ment that Pride shall haue the greatest torments and chiefest roome in hel of all other sinnes because on earth she hath bene the foremost chiefe ringleader of all other Musc in Isai 14.15 Qui similis esse volebas deo pro coelo demersus es in tenebras inferni Thou which wouldest be like vnto God in stead of heauen thou art drowned or plunged in the darknesse of hell It is euen the same iudgement which the sonne of God Christ Iesus denounced against proud Capernaum saying And thou Capernaum which art exalted to heauen shalt be thrust downe to hell Luk. 10.15 Hell is a place without the heauen prepared of God with vnspeakeable most horrible confused euerlasting torments for the damned Of which though the extreame and full horror thereof cannot of man bee expressed no not if a damned soule were permitted to expresse what it could of the paine it is not able to describe that which it most wofully feeleth yet the holy scriptures of God do speak plainly and sufficiently thereof for our learning and instruction most wonderfull to behold Whereof many men haue written learnedly the chiefe substance whereof thou shalt finde collected by Parsons in his Resolution the ninth Chapter vnto which for this time I will send you 1. Because of the truth of the argument and the plaine easie maner of handling it 2. As also I must confesse I cannot much amend it neither now stay to speake that which I would of it 3. Because honour is to be giuen to whom honour is due The Idollators rob God of his honour and he that taketh an other mans workes without his name is like a theefe that stealeth an other mans goods to enrich himselfe As many do in these dayes that cause the poore to smart as vsurers extortioners oppressors theeues and the couetous c. for whom is reserued the myst of darknesse for euer without repentance And thus for this time I haue finished that which I determined for the Lord beeing but able to rough-hewe my timber and so leaue it the more readie for a better builder God graunt we may all build together the worke of the Lord to the humble and perfect finishing of our faith through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Lord liueth and blessed be my strong helper and praised be the God of my saluation Psal 18.47 Amen FINIS Si malè quid dictuÌ„ est hominem dixisse memento Si bene quid dixi gloria Christe tua est Is ought here past my penne humane that same is due to mee But what is right and true O God that same I haue of thee And thee do praise for all thy grace and knowledge of thy word O Father Sonne and holy Ghost one God and mightie Lord. Let vs pray O Holy and eternall God most mightie Lord and mercifull Father whose truth reacheth vnto the heauens righteousnesse vnto the ends of the world which haste now taught vs that those which exalt themselues shall be brought downe to the graue to the sides of the pit euen to hell giue vs grace that we by thy power may subdue the flesh vnto the spirit that wee may be the habitation of thine owne holinesse and the place which thou hast chosen to put thy name there So shall wee be safe vnder thy protection and our hearts shall be filled with ioy as the Temple was with the glory of the Lord. And then as Symeon reioyced to embrace Christ so shall wee to receiue death without trembling through faith being assured of deliuerance from thy wrath Heare vs ô Lord for Iesus Christs sake our onely Mediator and Aduocate To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all thankes and praise and honour and power and glory and maiestie ascribed now and for euer Amen FINIS
that she will not come downe like those rebels Corath Dathan Abiram which would not obey but answered Moses saying Num. 16.12 We will not come vp Yet when God comes vnto her as hee did to the builders of the Tower of Babel or vnto Sodome and Gomor Hee will set her downe with a vengeance For it is written Deu. 32.35 Vengeance is mine and I will recompence saith the Lord. Then shall she hode that it is fearfull thing to â—all into the hands of the liuing God For the Lord out God is euen a consuming fire and this is he that saith here in my text to the spirit of Pride Thou shalt be brought downe Thus wee see it is God that threatneth Now behold the truth of his word and whether we may beleeue him And this we shall see by â—â—s infallible assurednesse of his word firme for euer more The word of the Lord endureth for euer And because this point is so neare of affinitie with the former next before I will briefly strengthen this pesition with the testimonie of the hoâ—y scripture to assure you of the truth and so proceed further Our Sauiour Christ saith Heauen and earth shall passe but my word shall not passe And God saith by his Prophet My word shall stand That which God promised to Ahab and his house to Nabuchadnezzar and proud Balthasar and many other came vpon them truly Because thus saiâ—th the Lord Dominus locutus est the Lord hath spoken it And will hee not be as good as his word to them that are proud Of them the Lord saith by the Prophet Isay I will visit the fruite of the proud heart of the King of Assur 1. Synacharib and his glorious and proud lookes And so hee did and slew him by the hands of his owne sonnes Againe The high lookes of man shall bee humbled and the loftinesse of men shall be abased And againe The day of the Lord of Hoasts is vpon all the proud and haughtie and vpon all that is exalted and it shall be made lowe euen the eyes of the proud shall be humbled And Christ saith He that exalteth himselfe shall bee brought lowe And Salomon saith The pride of man shall bring him lowe Preprio gladio iugulabitur Her owne sword shall cut her throate as Iudith did Olifernes with his owne Will you haue any more then woe to the crowne of Pride Woe is a kinde of threatning against sinne whereby the holy Prophets Iustum dei iudicium exprimunt quod omnes manet qui idem faciunt do expresse the iust iudgement of God wherof all shall bee partakers that continue in sinne And an other saith by woe woe Ingentes calamitates indicantur Horrible calamities are foretold Gual in Haba 2. Hom. 7. Vae autem malorum condemnationem proprie manifestat Woe threatned dooth properly assure the wicked of their condemnation vnto which Corozin Bethsaida and Capernaum are come against whom Christ denounced woe to bee to the Corozin c. Thus we see that fearefull are the threatnings and strong are the testimonies of holy scriptures which denounce destruction to them that be proud and yet there be more Dauid saith Ps 59.12 Iob. 20.6.7 Let them be taken in their pride They shall perish for euer like their owne dung though their excellencie mount vp to heauen and their head reach vp to the cloudes Iob. 24.24 Againe They are exalted for a lule but they are gone and are brought lowe as all ethers they are destroyed and cut off as the top of an eare of corne Isa 3.16 for the Lord hath spoken it And by the Prophet Ezechiel Ezech. 12 25.28 God saith I am the Lord I will speake and that thing that I shall speake shall come to passe it shall no more bee prolonged Ier. 1.12 For I will hasten my word to performe it And further also do you not know that God said Let there be light Gen. 1.14 15. and it was so The lawes of the Medes and Persians alter not and shall Gods truth faile Beloued be not deceiued you see what God saith against Pride Ecech 17.9 Euen I the Lord haue spoken it shall it then prosper No no deare bretheren And yet I feare men doo not beleeue these holy scriptures c. for if they did they could not seeke sinne and follow after it with that greedinesse as they doo But ô Lord turne their hearts and then shall they be turned Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malicious take away his vngodlinesse and thou shalt finde none And thus now I end with that note which is giuen and approued vpon these words of our Sauiour Christ Math. 7.26 Hee that heareth of me these sayings and dooth them not shall be likened vnto a foolish man that built his house vpon the sands c. That is hee that practiseth not Gods word which hee hath heard giueth a plaine testimonie of himselfe that he dooth not beleeue nor credit the word And now for to end this point let me exhort you to pluck down your plumes of Pride as the Peacock casteth downe his traine beholding his blacke feete Come home with the prodigall sonne saying Luk. 15.21 Father I haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne Be ashamed of your sinne as Adam was of his nakednesse And as Ioel teacheth Turne vnto the Lord with all your hearts Ioel. 2. He careth not fot a peece rent your hearts and not your garments for they be too much hacked alreadie because you will bee contrarie to the most high God Lament as Niniuie did let euery man turn from his euill way and from the wickednesse that is in their hands Then shall your light breake foorth as the morning and your iust dealing as the noone-day and God will put away your wickednesse out of his remembrance as he hath promised by his holy Prophet But if you will not then will hee come against you Gen. 18.21 as he did against Sodome and see whether you haue done altogether according to that cry which is come vp vnto him If you haue then will hee call and muster his Hoasts together encouraging and hastning them to the slaughter crying against Pride as the childreÌ„ of Edom did in the day of Ierusalem Downe with it downe with it Ps 137.7 euen to the ground Then his souldiers will answere comming to destroy as it is written of Christ comming for to saue Loe I am come to doo thy will ô God Heb. 10.7 And they shall go forth in the strength of the Lord God and in the power of his might and come vnto all that are proud as Dauid did against Goliah in the name of the Lord of Hoasts whom men haue despised and blasphemed And they will not bee carelesse in destroying as Saul was to destroy some and saue some aliue but they will away with all that they are commaunded