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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19036	Mundanum speculum, or, The worldlings looking glasse Wherein hee may clearly see what a woefull bargaine he makes if he lose his soule for the game of the vvorld. A worke needfull and necessarie for this carelesse age, wherein many neglect the meanes of their saluation. Preached and now published by Edmund Cobbes, master of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1630 (1630)	STC 5453; ESTC S117518	113,560	456

short time full of misery many of vs haue spunne a long thred and so haue set our feet within the gates of death and many of vs haue trod in the path of old age in which the Almond flourishes many of our haires are turned white to the haruest of death Old age is honourable if it be found in the wayes of righteousnesse but if old men be found in the wayes of sinne ignorance and prophanenesse oh how dishonorable are those gray hayres what an old man a swearer an old man a Drunkard an old man a Gamester an old man a Lyar an old man a Whoremaster an old man an ignorant man oh what a shame is this Brethren the Israelites were commanded to gather twice so Ex. 16. 22. much Manna the day before their Sabbath as they did any day in the weeke before and should not the gray hoare head that lookes euery day for his last day of mortalitie and his Sabbath of rest should not hee I say labour to get twice so much knowledge pray twice so much read twice so much and ponder in his heart the workes of the Lord of mercy and of Iustice and grow in the graces of Gods Spirit that they Tit. 2. 7. may shew themselues patternes of all goodnesse for young men to imitate the dayes of mans life are threescore yeares and ten sayes Moses the Man of Psal 19. God but oh the carelesnesse of many which haue passed this age and though death stand at the doore yet they will not beleeue it It is said of Ephraim that gray hayres were vpon him yet he knew it not he had Hos 7. 9. markes of death vpon his face and hayre yet would still bee young and what was said of Ephraim may iustly bee said of many old men in our dayes whose windowes grow dimme whose sight faile and they bend downward to their long home and yet they consider not their latter end therefore they fall Lam. 1. 9. miserably and many die fearfully Oh consider this all yee that forget God! oh how soure and stinking are the dregs of sinne and prophanenesse of old men in the sight of God! as old men are to repent betime so are young men they are to remember their Creator in the dayes Eccles. 1. 2. of their youth for it is needfull to begin betimes because they haue much worke to doe and they haue no lease of their liues time and tide stayeth not therefore all of vs while it is called to day hearkē and obey for betweene old men yong men there is little difference old men goe to death and death comes to young men therefore as all men must die all must labour to get their soules saued For it is a iust thing with Iustum est vt a Deo contemnatur moriens qui Deum omnipotentem contemp sit viuens God that he should contemne that man in his death which contemned God Almighty in his life therefore let vs not deferre this needfull worke but presently set vpon it while wee haue time and while it is called to day for it may bee to morrow may be too late Gods mercy being abused he is a consuming fire and therefore it will be a most fearfull thing to fall into his hands Ob. Oh but God is a God of mercie and he shewed mercy vnto the Theefe at the last houre and therefore I doubt not but he will also shew mercy vnto me A. It is true indeed God is a God of mercy full of compassion and his tender mercies Ps 145. 8 9 Eph. 2. 4. are ouer all his workes yea hee is rich in mercy and therefore thou thinkst his mercy will bee as great to thee as it was to the Theefe vpon the Crosse This was a rare example of Christs mercy and cannot be applied to any particular man because the promises of mercy doe ioyne the meanes and end together Therefore we cannot deny but that as God is mercifull so also he is iust and Iustice and Mercy cannot dispence one with another God deales with man as Physitians deale with their Patients wee see many learned Physitians sometimes giue ouer their Patients not for that they want skill but because they see them incurable so thou that posts off and defers thy repentance and care for the saluation of thy soule till the last gaspe if thou bee damned it is not because the Lord wants mercy but because thou art dead in thy sinnes and past recouery and so the mercy of the Lord can doe thee no good thou remainest in thy impenitency hardnesse of heart and vnbeliefe The Apostle tels the beleeuing Romanes that God is able to graft the Iewes into the true Oliue plant againe if they doe not continue in their vnbeliefe Intimating vnto vs that God is not able to shew mercy vnto vnbeleeuing and vnrepentant Rom. 11. 23 wretches so long as they continue in vnbelife See therefore what thou art like to gaine by this rare exāple of the Lords mercie shewed vnto the theefe vpon the Crosse But because this is the strong hold wherein many desperate wretches hide themselues wee will therefore by the light of Gods Word diue into this example and weigh euery circumstance in it and what we discouer we will plainely set downe and shew what rockes and shelues lye in this harbour and how dangerous it is to cast Anchor here hauing found out the danger wee will hang out a bloody Flagge which may threaten death and destruction to all that seeke to harbour vpon this sandy foundation Tell me not therfore of the Theefe vpon the Crosse for of two theeues one was damned though hee saw the repentance of his fellow heard Christs gratious promise yet for all this he repented not Why doe we not bring him for a patterne and apply it to our selues and say Might not this be our case which haue put off our repentence vnto the last Here is a Theefe against a Theefe the one is saued and the other damned that this theefe was saued was a miracle miracles were no miracles if they were common Wee haue of this rare mercy of GOD one example that no man should despaire and but one example that no man should presume 1. This is a rare example without any promise of God if that thou canst shew a promise that thou shalt repent at the last houre of thy life but if thou canst not then thou promisest that to thy selfe which God neuer promised to giue thee 2. Againe this was a worke of wonder and euery way miraculous for Christ was hereby pleased to honour the ignominy of his Crosse and to manifest his power in his greatest humiliation his cruell enemies raged and blasphemed his stripes and wounds shewed him to be but a mortall and despised man and his Disciples despairing after so many miracles whether he were the promised Messiah or no therfore our blessed Sauiour to manifest his power and

thereby may shew their inferioritie and humblenesse of minde in submitting themselues vnto the Will of God whose pleasure it is that some should rule and some obey As Inferiors offend in going costly in their apparell and wearing such as is fit for men of high place and calling so those which are in high places offend in wearing meane and contemtible apparell and so weaken the authoritie GOD hath put into their hands Vnlesse it be in some particular cases as in the time of fasting and humiliation and when God by sensible iudgements shewes that hee hath a controuersie with the land Ruth 1. 20. for the sinnes of the people In such cases costly apparell must bee laid aside and beautifull Ioel 2. 16. names of honour denied But I may spare my labour to say much in this licentious age of this point because men and women are fallen into such an excesse of brauery whereby all respect of order and degree is neglected for whereas Christ restrained gorgious apparell to Kings Pallaces now it is grown so common that we may see it in euery house almost which comes to passe because euerie one is so farre fallen in loue with himselfe either for his person qualities or apparell which are so excellent in their owne eyes that a poore mans wife will bee as fine as a gentlemans and in all places wee shall see pride ruffle in Rustickes for euery one will be in the fashion how euer they come by it the seruant can hardly bee knowne from the Master and the maide from the Mistris nor scarce any mans estate can bee distinguished by his apparell but plaine Coridon that hath no more wit then to know the price of Satten and Silkes and Taffeties and other toyes to make him foole-fine cannot longer be content to hold the Plough and to be one of those good Common-wealths-men which keepe good hopitality and spend their wealth moderately doing good in the places where they dwell but being aduanced in wealth by the death of his miserable father must instantly bee dubbed a gentleman and purchase Armes though it be at a deare rate and be a smoaky gallant in his youth though hee begge his bread in his age and thinke hee is no-body vnlesse he bee out of the fashion and can swagger and braue it out sweare himselfe into smoake with pure refined oathes and fustian protestations and take Tobacco with a whiffe and so lash out that riotously which his father got miserly but hee is now a gentleman therefore hee will not take it as he hath done nor will hee bee clad any longer in good cloath but will creepe into acquaintance with Sattens Veluets and Plush too high and costly for his meane conditions And country maides that haue but thirty or forty shillings a yeare and a few base shifts must be trick't and trim'd vp like a Maid-Mayrian in a Morris dance sometime her Ruffes are pinned vp to her eares and sometime they hang ouer her shoulders like a wind-mill sayle fluttering about her eares Therefore seeing this contagious Leprosie h●th spred it selfe ouer this glorious Commonwealth wherein Gentlemen in their attire goe like Nobles and Yeomen like Gentlemen and Milke-maides like Gentlewomen as if their eyes were so dazelled with pride that they mistooke one anothers apparell for their owne It were to be wished that our ancient lawes made against this excesse were put in execution against our pride which testifies against our faces and yet for all this we are not ashamed but alas as if we had cast off the feare of the Lord from before our eyes we deck our carkasses with such costly vnbeseeming apparell which is light for the fashion wanton and immodest called by the Wife-man the attire of an Pro. 7. 16. Harlot by the Prophet strange Zeph. 1. 8. raiment which shewes very vain and inconstant mindes our Fathers kept sheepe now we Gen. 43. 3. their Children scorne to were the wooll but must ruffle it out in Silkes and Veluets and Taffeties euery one adorning himselfe in brauery although their manners be quite out of order The good chines of Porke and large peeces of Beefe which was wont to bee in great mens houses to releeue the poore are turned now to buy chaines of Gold and the almes that were wont to releeue them is husbanded now to buy guegawes the Elephant is admired for carrying a Castle on his backe but now we may see many faire Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to weare whole Lordships and Mannor-houses on their backs without sweating Vestium luxus saith Tully arguit animum parum sobrium Alas Sobriety where shalt thou be found where al men affect pompe the Plough-man which in times past was content to be clad in russet must now a dayes haue his doublet of the fashion with wide cuts and his silke Garters to meet his Sib on Sunday What would these persons doe if their wealth and birth did answere the pride of their hearts surely they would out-strip Nebuchadnezzar the the King of pride they would be as daintie in their diet and costly in their apparell as euer Diues was how may we lament their folly that to maintaine their pride turne their lands into laces and their patrimonies into gay Coates holding it belike a point of policy to put their Lands into two or three Trunkes of cloathes that wearing their lands on their backs they may see their Tenants doe them no waste but alas when they would turne backe their clothes into lands againe they are so thred-bare and out at the W B. on Math. 6. Elbowes that they will not come neare the former value so that at lēgth for want of better consideration they must march vnder Sir Iohn Hadlands colours among the poore gentlemen of pennilesse bench and so are forced at last to act the Est quodam prodie tenus si non datur vltra Hor. King and beggars part at one time the King abroad and the beggar at home Here I might enter into a large field of matter but by this which hath beene said we may imagine that all is out of frame But vaine man and proud woman know that by thy pride and excesse in apparell thou offendest God and makest him at variance with the workes of his hands for the Wise-man telleth vs that euery one that is proud in Pro. 16. 5. heart is abomination to the Lord. Therefore the Lord by the Prophet denounceth a woe to the Isay 28. 1. crowne of pride It must needs be a miserable thing for the Creature to be abhorred of the Creator Pride is and hath beene alwayes the forerunner of destruction the consideration hereof should strike amazement into euery one of our hearts when we consider what thunder-bolts God hath shot out against this sinne yet what little amendment is to be found amōg vs what losse of precious time is there among vs yea among the Children of God in decking and adorning