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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00023	A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B..	I. B.	1599 (1599)	STC 1041.3; ESTC S124171	41,847	174

to set before their eyes the horrible plagues and punishments that are prepared for such persons as be rebels and transgressors of his lawe for although the hope of the rewardes that are promised to the good in the life to come may moue vs very much hereunto yet are we cōmōly more moued with things that be irkesome vnto vs than with things that be pleasant euen as we see by dayly experience that we are vexed more with an iniurie done vnto vs than delighted with any honor and we are more troubled with sicknesse than comforted with health and so by the discommoditie of sickenesse we come to vnderstand the commoditie of health as by a thing so much the better perceiued by how much more it is sensibly felt Nowe for this cause did the Lorde in times past vse this meanes more then any other as it appeareth most clearely by the writings of the Prophets which are euery where full of dreadfull saying and threatnings ●hy the ●ord ordiarily vseth ●reatnings wherwith the Lord pretended to put a terror into the hearts of men and so to bridle subdue them vnder the obedience of his law and for this end he commaunded the Prophet leremie Ier. 36.2 that hee should take a white booke and write in the same all the threatnings and calamities which he had reuealed vnto him euen from the first day he began to talke with him vntill that present houre and that hee should reade the same in the presence of all the people to see if peraduenture they would be mooued therewith to repentance to chāge their former life to the end that he might also change the determination of his wrath which he had purposed to execute vpon them and the holy Scripture sayth That when the Prophet had done according as he was commaunded by Almightie God and had read all those threatnings in the presence of the people and of the Rulers there arose such a feare and terror amōg them that they were all astonished and as it were bestraught of their wits looking one in anothers face for the exceeding great feare which they had conceiued of those wordes This was one of the principal meanes that Almighty God vsed with men in the time of the law written and so did hee also in the time of the lawe of grace in which the holy Apostle sayth ●om 1. that as there is reuealed a iustice whereby God maketh men iust so is there also reuealed an indignation and wrath wherwith he punisheth the vniust For which cause Saint Iohn Baptist the glorious forerunner of our Sauiour Christ was sent with this commission embassage to preach vnto the worlde Matth. 3. verse 10. luke 3.9 that the axe was now put to the roote of the tree and that euery tree that brought not foorth good fruite should be cut downe and cast into the fire He sayd moreouer that there was another come into the world more mightie then he that caried in his hande a fanne to winnow clense therwith his flower and that hee would put vp his corne into his garnard but the chaffe he would burne in a fire that should neuer be quenched This was the preaching and embassage which the holy fore-runner of our Sauiour Christ brought into the worlde and so great was the thunder of these wordes and the terrour which entred into mens hearts so dreadfull that there ran vnto him of all state and conditions of men euen o● the very Pharisees and Publicans yea and souldiers also which of all others are woo● to be most dissolute to hau● least care of their conscience and each of them for himself● demaunded particularly of the holy man what he should d● to attaine vnto saluation an● to escape those terrible threa●nings which he had denounce vnto them so great was th● feare they had conceiued ●● them Now this is that my dear Christian brother which I do● at this present in the behalfe 〈◊〉 Almightie God preach vnt● thee although not with su● feruencie of spirit and like ho● lines of life yet that which in porteth more to this case wit●● the same truth and certaintie for so much as the faith and Gospel that Saint Iohn Baptist preached at that time was no other but this which we preach at this present Now if thou be desirous to vnderstand in few words how great the punishment is that Almightie God hath threatned in his holy Scriptures to the wicked that which may most briefely and most to the purpose be saide in this matter is this that like as the rewarde of the good is an vniuersall good thing euen so the punishment of the wicked is an vniuersall euill which comprehendeth in it all the euils that are For the better vnderstanding whereof it is to be noted that all the euils of this life are particular euils and therefore doe not torment all our senses generally but onely one or some of them As taking an example of the diseases of our bodie The miseries of this life are particular wee see that one hath a disease in his eies another in his eares one is sicke in his heart another in his stomacke some other in his head and so diuerse men are diseased in diuerse parts howbeit in such wise that none of all these diseases bee generally throughout all the members of the bodie but particular to some one of them And yet for all this we see what griefe onely one of these diseases may put vs vnto and howe painefull a night the sicke man hath in any one of these infirmities yea although it be nothing else but a litle ache in one tooth Now let vs put the case that there were some one man sicke of such an vniuersall disease that hee had no part of his bodie neither any one ioynt or sense free from his proper griefe and torment but that at one time and instant he suffered most exceeding sharpe paines in his head in his eyes and eares in his teeth and stomake in his liuer and heart and to be short in all the rest of the members and ioynts of his bodie and that hee lay after this sort stretching himselfe in his bed pained with these griefes and torments euery member of his bodie hauing his particular torment he I say that shold lie thus pained and afflicted how great torment and griefe of minde thinke ye should he sustaine O what thing could any man imagine more miserable and more worthy of compassion Surely if thou sholdest see but a dogge so tormented the streete How the damned are tormented in ●ell his very paines wo● moue thee to pittie him No● this is that my deere Christi●● brother if any comparison m●● be made between them which is suffered in that cursed hom●ble place of hell not onely 〈◊〉 the space of one night but ●● uerlastingly for euer and eue● For like as the wicked haue o● fended Almightie God with●● their members and senses a●● haue