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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08850	A myrrour or cleare glasse for all estates, to looke in, conteining briefly in it the true knovvledge and loue of god, and the charitie of a faithfull christian tovvardes his neyghbour.	Palfreyman, Thomas, d. 1589?	1560 (1560)	STC 19137; ESTC S101415	93,769	240

● A MYRROVR or cleare glasse for all estates to looke in conteinyng briefly in it the true knovvlege and loue of god and the charitie of a faithfull christian tovvardes his neyghbour Remembre the meruailouse vvorks that he hath done his vvōders also and the iugemētes of his mouth Psal 105. Make your frēds vvith thunrightous Māmon that vvhē you your selues shal haue nede they may receue you into the euerlasting tabernacles Lu. l. M.D.LX. 〈…〉 dernesse of this 〈…〉 the rather passe foorthe 〈…〉 hyghues name and permission into the handes of other you 〈…〉 faithefull subiectes to the shore 〈◊〉 vertue godly innocen●y and more 〈◊〉 strength in the true knowledge 〈…〉 of god and to bee 〈…〉 table after the wyll 〈…〉 th● am●●ple of his sonne 〈…〉 moste lyuely and 〈…〉 bly beseche the high 〈…〉 remayne and abyde euer in 〈…〉 hart that ye may haue will and power thorow his strength to resist all ●uyll and ioyfully with peace seke his glorye in rightousnes and the prosperitie and comforte of your commons We your humble seruantes and subiectes will as we are vndoubtedlye in conscience bounde with sounde hartes and with one liuely faithe pray to god for youre highnes longe preseruation and that he wille in tyme so prepare for youre quiete contentation and ioye that the blessyng of god ouer you may apparātly shine that all your whole dominions may also therin reioyce Thomas Paulfreyman vnto the christen Reader The maiestie of god hath alvvaies appered vnto man by his omnipotencie mercie and loue AS wee in tyme from tyme to tyme haue alwayes perceiued and felt the great and vnspeakable mercy of god in signifieng vnto vs his creatures thorow his grace his omnipotencie and power and his infinite loue and will prescribed vnto vs in his heauenly and diuine wourde to the manifestation and playne settyng oute before oure eies thexcellency of his moste glorious maiestie and for his vertue and great puissance to be an onely God aboue all goddes who straightly also respecteth the singularitie of his owne glory and seketh therein the onely ioye comforte strengthe and saluation of vs his people The loue of god tovvardes his people vnto whom he commendeth his lawes his truth this promises in whom he only delighteth and vpon whom he gladly pretendeth to synisshe his moste beautifull wourke begun as hereafter shall more largely appeare whereby we should be the rather more aptely enforced and lyuely encouraged The loue of God requireth the knovvlege of god and to be loued againe obeied and folovved worthyly to acknowledge hym euen as he is in his maiestie most dearely to loue him to honour hym to attend alwais vpon hym and reuerently in all thynges to folowe and obey hym as vertue requireth in all good thynges to bee with goodnes agayne requighted So to the contrarye of oure owne rebellious nature and apte Inclination to sinfulnes beyng but bryckle and fraile earth and not thorowly well handled instructed chastised tamed or rightly ruled by the diligence of our almighty creatour our Lorde our maister and ruler but suffre vs withoute regarde punishemente o● or sharpe bandes wyth stretched ou ts neckes to vse the reane at lybertye Men of his ovvne nature vvithout goddes gouernement is vvilde vvithout 〈◊〉 son and vntractable or raunge wythoute restranytie we are wilde wanton and skyttishe very brutishe and be astlyke without reason we will appeare vnskylfull and to wante perseueraūce and good vnderstādyng we wyll forget by whome we lyue we wyll not acknowledge our maker nor remembre oure maister that gentelye speaketh to vs that is carefull for vs that feedethe vs that comfortablye nourisheth vs The fruites that precedeth onely of mans nature and taketh payne about vs we wyll neither regarde hym nor feare hym that is of power to strike destroy vs we will not in any thyng be ruled by hym nor yelde to obeye hym but vnreuerently striue with hym run from hym The hartes of the obstin●te and ●●ylful people are 〈…〉 ●●uffe at hym or tourne our heeles against hym as experience with wo hath taught throughout all generations from the beginnyng vntyl this present day specially the headstronge and wylfulle obstinate people of this worlde that holde their onely felicitie vpon the pleasures of this lyfe whose hartes are hardened agaynst God their maker maliciousely in blyndenesse to repugne his wyll and flye from hym no diligence wyll wynne them no doctrine reforme theim nor no correction amend them so damnable is their state and great stoutenes of will to wickednes whereby the myghty and horrible plagues of god hath fallen for their sakes vpon the earthe to the destruction of whole nations countreis and kyngdoms as the scriptures and other stories mencioneth playnely to vs to put vs in feare of his omnipotency sharpnes of iustice and to tourne vs backs from our vayn and beastly foolishnes The exceedinge mer-of God at our return to god whose fast folowynge fountaines also of mercy at oure retourne so farre haboundeth the iniquitie of man when it is at the very rypest or hyghest that he then continually calleth and as it were painfully trauaileth by certain means to th ende he may wynne vs and safely delyuer vs frome she daunger of disobedience if we wyl yelde to his mercy who will ioyfully receaue vs clearely remit vs reward vs with euerlasting felicitie The order wherof and thexcellency of his works is signified vnto vs at large in the booke of lyfe Of the whiche gentil reader I haue at the begyunyng of this my sclender laboure made brefe relation takyng it for a conuenient and moste certayn grounde to plante on my foundation seeyng that chiefly and aboue all thynges the vertue of christianitie and holynes consisteth by diuine influence in the knowledge of the maiestie of God whyche can bee by no meanes so directe as to note well the meruaylous order of the workes of God whiche are greate and meruallous woorthy to bee praised and had in honour and to bee sought out of all theym that loue them and haue pleasure in them by the whiche also we see his omnipotente state and power the gentlenes of his most gracious and diuine nature the myldnes of his mercy and the sharpenes of his iustice wherby we labour with reuerence not only for the true knowledge of his wyl how to honour hym or in what maner we shall lyue before hym Our ovvne feeblenes driueth vs to god for strength to the vvorkinge of rightuousnesse but also feelyng in oure selues our owne great frailtie and feeblenes we sue for his assistence and strength that our faith loue and obedience may euer be liuely constant and perfect before hym and so foorthe in other vertues that the seruice of rightousnes may ioyntly appere right from rightuous men in such rightuous and moste pure profession before so rightuous and holye a God And so I passe forthe declaryng the grounde of myne entent and

Gene. ● the redemed mēbres of Iesus Christe our christen brotherne and naturall countreymen but suffer theim wythout cōpassion in suche lamentable wyse to appeare before oure eyes in euery corner In fieldes in high wayes in churches in stretes in by lanes in commē Iaquesses vnder stalles at rych mens doores and vnder their walles Ah most lamentable wofull case wherby if we do enter into oure owne consciences what shall we there fynde What good matter of reioycinge and perfecte peace shall there before god appeare in vs What remaineth in vs wanting the charitie of god to be quiet in our selues and to liue in the state of goddes grace Remaineth there nothyng vprightly in vs What nothing at all No no verily of any inwarde or heauenly ioy but a terrible out cry VVhere the charitie of god remayneth not there the conscience abideth vn quiet and alvvaies in terroui● and an open accusation agaynste vs and the iust terrour and vengeance of god vppon vs because we haue not in tyme to our powers accordyng to the order of charitie and perfect compassion preuented these most notable and cursed euils or at the least for not preparyng present comfort in suche tyme of necessitie makynge our frendes of wicked mammon whereby the poore myght be relieued that there myght be also layed vp in store for our selues a good foundation in Iesus Christe against the tyme to come Rom. 12. 1 Timo. 6 Eccle. 11. and obtayne-thorough hym euerlastynge lyfe Ryches is a good thing for it is the gift of god and so likewise is pouertie and as god hath made somme men riche with an holye and good spirite to despyse worldlye gooddes so hathe he also appointed some to beare the bourden of pouertie that they might happilye receiue his benefites at suche charitable and rich mennes handes O how blessed are those that haue riches the good gyfte of god where by they maye not only make many frendes to the praise of God Pro. 19. and their owne comforte but seeke also the fauour of the poore that are often through pouerty for saken of their frendes whose continuall praier and swete blessinge by the promises of god shall purchase vnto theym the fauour of god healthfulnes ioy prosperitie and plentifull encreace For the charitable acte of the rightuous godly man god alwayes beholdeth and accepteth as an hygh and wourthie sacrifice whiche he at any tyme vaynelye receyue not and without recompence but as his acte is worshyppeful accordynge to Salomon to doe good and to help the poore in their necessity which be calleth lendinge vnto the Lorde or layed out for a season so the Lord god that is all goodnesse and truths that delighteth in well doing and reioiceth in hys people wyll not wythholde hys bountyfull hande but see him largelye requighted agayne Prou. 19. Prou. 29. Prouer. 12 The poore and the lender ofte meete together but it is the Lorde that lightneth both their eyes It is the lord that prepareth pouertie It is the lord that geueth vnto the poore strengthe and consolation thoroughe faith by the power of his spirite to ask in his name and to attaine reliefe It is the lord also that geueth ryches Eccle. 17. and wourketh in the hartes of the rich tender compassion and mercye towardes the poore by the same spirite whereby hys name in theym bothe is hyghlys reuerenced and magnyfied And he that thus geeueth or lendeth vnto the poore in the name of God shal be blessed and not want him self For the mercye that a mercifull man sheweth here vnto his neighbour in these terrestrial vain earthly thynges is as it were a purse wyth hym or a treasure house plentuousely stuffed with thin comparable and endlesse treasures of god the father in and by oure Lorde Iesus Christe thorowe the loue and faith in whom a mans good dedes preserueth hym euen as the apple of an eye So that al vertuous and charitable dedes God louyngely beholdeth in Christe and largely agayn requiteth If grace wer amongst vs to consider the same and practise it But we are I saye to the contrary so blynded and sore infected with earthely and vayne affectes and felse loue so preuayleth our senses to rule that wee forgette god and his wourde we neglecte Christe and his gospelle we haue embraced but a benummed and deade faythe wee haue not reuerentely in price the onely merites of Christes deathe but wee rather heare the name of Christyanitie and holynesse secludynge the true faithe in the waye of rightousnes and are in deede enuironned and cloked in with all kyndes of maliciousnesse and wickednesse we haue professed in Iesus Christ to loue god aboue all thynges and our neighbours as our selues but we contempne God and Christe our creatour and sauioure and the rather neglecte oure poore neighboures and christen brotherne our companions in Christ and felowe heyres with him in his kyngedome bendynge our whole affectes to the onely dead will of the flesh we loue so much the world the diuelles snares hath caught vs The deuell the vvorlde and the flesh preuaileth against vs. Ena hath deceyued vs light fātasies are obeyed excesse beareth rule our callinges are abused our eies must be satisfied our bodyes must go gaye our feding must be fyne our pastymes must be kepte and what so euer earthly vanitie the deuill motioneth the worlde proeureth or the fleshe coneteth therevnto our corrupted hartes immediatlye consenteth Trulye Sathan that cursed enemy and prynce of impietie syns his firste fall from the kingdome of god into vtter darkenes neuer better bestirred hī to the nereace of his helly kingdom thē now in these our pitiles and most vnhappy daies And how he preuaileth and in victory triūpheth god to oure plage suffereth his grace he withdraweth which our wickednes serueth and that the godlye most greuously feeleth and with teares also lamenteth And if herein we now consider mennes ingratitude amongeste whome in their degrees they greatlye differ as some are muche more to bee noted then some namelye of such thinges as shal immediatly folowe considering how merueilously we be mixed with what diuersitie of spirites we bee guided and how variable in al our doynges we are alwais affected for we haue not amōgest vs one only faith we leane not zelously to one only true god neyther doo we seeke one onelye eternall and heauenlye father whose wyll of all men shoulde onely be receyued folowed if our hartes in dede were onlye to him vnited But as we bee apparauntly and to euel deuided and some to one way and some to another addicted so the powers of darkenesse hathe mightilie preuailed and wroughte open contempte to our iust reproche Therfore respectinge these two natures thus deuided I wyll humbly now wyth reuerence leaue here wourthylye vntouched all vertuous ryghte prudente honourable and godlye gouernours whose harts I acknowlege in their doinges to be alwayes moste aptly tempered with the reuerēd feare of God from whome