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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10711	My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 20991.7; ESTC S115904	57,436	81

are indeede enemies to the Crosse of Christ and doe tread his holy bloud vnder their scornefull feete that do build vp deuotion with ignorance and doe ring out their hot Alarums in the eares of the vnlearned teaching that the light can bee no light that the Scriptures can bee no Scriptures nor the truthcan be no truth but by their allowance and if they will say that high noone is midnight we must beleeue them and make no more adoe but get vs to bed These bee they that can make God the creator that made both heauen and earth of a little peece of bread this doctrine they do teach and this the poore ignorant Papists must beleeue and zealously say Amen to but alas their pretended holinesse in zeale is indeede but the hollownesse in zeale and the fulnes of that zeale wherewith they be so blinded ariseth through the emptinesse of that knowledge which they will not see If blindnesse be a misery what is ignorance or if the duskinesse of the night be vncomfortable what is the darkenesse of superstitious Popery A Papist and a Tayler are of like affinitie they do both relie on their good workes their faithes do hang on other mens beleefes they doe exercise all their religion by an exorcising Masse accounting the old new testaments to be but bookes of controuersies holding it to be a peremptorie sacriledge for any lay-man to meddle with they thinke they may see more by a waxe candle when it is lighted then they may doe by the light of Gods word they say they be good subiects dutifull and loyall and yet what a wrangling they do keepe with the Prince for his supremacy The hound that followeth two hares at once can catch neither and hee that serueth two masters of contrarie kinds must bee a traitor to the one As much possible to vnite two contrary religions in one conscience as to reconcile fire and water Christ and Beliall God and the Diuell If the Pope court in the conscience and sit in the Throne of the heart the King can haue there but a cold entertainment Hee was wise therefore that turned his guest out of doores that could warme his cold hands with the same breath wherewith he cooled his hot pottage The Papists haue mouthes for their Masses tongues for their Prince and hearts for their Pope but let them say what they list and let them sometimes binde it with an oath the Pope hath taught his vermine a new doctrine of equiuocation and of mentall reseruation and he hath dispensations in store not onely for infringing an oath to a King but also for the murthering of a King if he be such a King as doth professe the Gospell If the Popes penance chāber were opened we might finde a rate of pardons for all offences that might be committed either against God or man those onely excepted that may be any waies preiudiciall to him selfe nay you shall finde indulgences for future offences for sinnes that are not yet committed Christ forgiueth no sinne but vpon hearty repentance the Pope forgiueth all sinnes onely for ready mony a happie thing for rich men that may buy heauen for mony but the diuel in the meane time is like to be basely attended on in hell with a company of poore beggers that are not able to buy pardons nor to purchase dispensations The Pope shutteth vp all goodnesse into his owne waare-house God receiueth vs now no more to mercie but he receiueth vs to penance to plunge vs in purgatory where we shall lie scorched and broiled till the Pope in his charitable disposition will mercifully release vs which he is euer readie to doe if we haue ready money to giue him And for the Saints they are become very tyrants malicious and vengible if their Eues be not fasted their images worshipped and their Shrines visited with a Candell or with some other offering they will else wreake themselues of vs without any compassion will both punish and grieuously afflict vs so that there is no mercy remaining in God nor in his Saints but all resteth in the Pope alone Doe not the poore Papists runne mad in conceit to thinke that Indulgences for all sinnes may be deriued from the Popes Exchequer that if a man wants not mony he needs not want heauen that the meere signe of the crosse can fray away the diuell that priests should be licensed their concubines and inhibited there wiues that one Benefice and one honest wife should be vnlawfull but that two Benefices and three whores should bee tollerable But let vs a little consider of these holy votaries that haue vowed obedience that haue vowed pouertie that haue vowed chastitie what is their vowed obedience but an exemption of all obedience either to God or man to serue their Pope alone what is their vowed pouertie but to inioy the wealth of the world to liue in ease and idlenesse and to feede themselues fat and now to speake truely what is their vowed chastitie but vowed Bawderie The efficient cause of Poperie it first springeth from a blinde zeale it doth vaunt of true religion and attributeth a certaine vertue vnto things without Gods ordinance The Pope himselfe steales his ceremonies from Iewes from Turkes from Pagans some from Idolatry all from Heresie Poperie could neuer endure the preaching of the Gospel and there is neither Turke Iew nor Pagan whatsoeuer that the Papists doe so much hate as they do these Heretickes that do seeke their saluation in the death passion of Iesus Christ we pitty them they persecute vs we pray for them they persue vs we loue them they loath vs we seeke to conuert them they seeke to confound vs they pursue vs not for that we are sinners but because we are zealous of the glory of God of sincere pure worship they hate vs not because of our offences but because of that will and desire it hath pleased God to giue vs to serue him purely according to his word they seeke vs not out for our abhominations and Idolatries but because we detest theirs Thus they hate vs but it is with a contrary hatred for they hate vs because we do seeke the glory of God according to his word of the which they would drepriue vs. In a briefe manner now to shew you what a Papist is he is blinde in knowledge lame in iudgment selfe conceited apt to beleeue lyes he is willfull obstinate he is wise and holy in his owne conceite walking in the steps of other mens opinions he cannot beleeue that God vnderstandeth any praiers but those that are made in latine he thinketh there is no other high way to heauen but that which leadeth through purgatory Amongst all the Beastes in the field he loues a Popes Bull but amongst all the Hearbes in the garden he cannot endure that which the Apothecaries do call Gratia Dei his eyes are