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A08280	A mirror for the multitude, or Glasse Wherein maie be seene, the violence, the error, the weaknesse, and rash consent, of the multitude, and the daungerous resolution of such, as without regard of the truth, endeaour to sinne and ioyne themselues with the multitude: with a necessary conclusion, that it is not the name, or title of a protestant, christian, or catholicke, but the true imitation of Christ, that maketh a Christian. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1586 (1586)	STC 18613; ESTC S120153	80,770	136

my heart and shew forth all his marueilous workes 2 I will be ioyfull and reioyce in thee oh Lorde I will sing praises vnto thee oh thou most highest 3 For thou hast turned backe mine enimies thou hast throwne downe those that deuised mischiefe against me yea thou hast reproued the wicked and turned their vaine hope to naught their counterfeyt glory into open ignominy and reproch 4 Thou hast taken my cause in hand maynteyned my right and preserued me thou sitting in the seat of iudgement hast showen thy self an vpright Iudge 5 Thou hast rebuked the multitude of those vngodly ones that haue sought the dishonor of thy name the spoyle of thy sanctuarie bloud of thine annointed 6 In so much as I may to my comfort say vnto them and to the chiefe Captaines of their multitudes Oh enimye the destructions that thou didest threaten wherin thou vainly vauntedst to destroy Cities to subuert Kingdoms to extinguish the memory of the godly from of the earth behold thou thy selfe consumest the breath of the Lords mouth shaketh thee thy triumphing before the victory soundeth forth thy perpetual shame and deserued confusion 7 The Lorde whose true seruice thou seekest to violate and whose seruaunts thou seekest to supplant hath an euerlasting dominion and he sitteth in iudgement to giue vnto euery man his due right 8 It is he that only ruleth and gouerneth the whole world with righteousnesse and with the ballance of his truth and equity discideth euery mans cause 9 It is he that is the strong a defensible Tower to such as are oppressed an assured refuge to the afflicted and an vndoubted reuenger of such as seeke to lay violent handes vpon his annoynted 10 And therfore as many as know thy name Oh Lord thy mercy and strength wil put their confidence in thee for thou neuer forsakest but duely relieuest and protectest those that truely seeke thee 11 Oh sing praises sing praises therefore vnto the Lord that hath his dwelling on high and yet so beholdeth all such as are true of heart let vs declare vnto al people the worthy acts which he hath done for vs already wherof great cause we haue to reioyce in him 12 He seeketh and findeth out such as are desirous to shed bloud thirste after the destruction of his annoynted shewing himselfe moste mindfull of those that loue him and forgetteth not to deliuer such as are in daunger and winketh not at the wicked 13 Haue mercy Lord vpon me oh thou that hast miraculouslye defended me from deathes doore Consider how mine enimies yet cease not to imagine mischiefe against me and to lay violent handes vppon my guiltles person thou my strength and aid consider it and deliuer me 14 That I may with ioy sing foorth thy worthy praises and entring into Syon maye reioysingly declare that thou art he that sauest me by whom I stande and by whome my enimies are throwne downe on euery side of me 15 A huge multitude of enimies haue risen vp against mee but thou hast brought it so to passe that they are ouerwhelmed with the sloud they deuised to bring in vpō me they are fallen into the pit they digged for mee and they are strangled in the snare they layd priuelie for me This oh Lord is thy doing and it is comfortable euen vnto my soule 16 Oh Lord thy wisedome is vnsearcheable thy loue incomprehensible and thy mercyes wonderfull and thy iudgement knowne by executing iustice vppon such as vse crafty wylenes against the innocent 17 Rise vp rise vp oh lord in the behalf of thy seruant let not thy hādmayd be alwaies forgotten let not her hope which she hath alwaies in thy defence be frustrate let not the wicked preuaile in the craftie conspiracies which they imagined Cast them down oh Lord and let the effect of their deuises shew their folly themselues to be but mortall men Esai 35. 3. 4. Confirmate manus languidas labantia corroborate genua Dicite animifestinis este fortes impauidi en Deus vester vltor veniet praemiator Deus ipse veniet seru●tum vos Non vi sed veritate FINIS The multitude expectethnoueltie● The greatest wonder lasteth but nine daies The late earth-quak a great vvonder The earth-quak a caueat The stranged nevves soone forgotten The summe of this trauel The fruits an a●g●m●nt of the professiō What the multitude most desire Gods children are the least number Gods trueth contrary to the mindes of the multitud A flight of sathan A daungerous thing to follow the multitude The way to true religion bodely dangerous The flesh is weake and vnable to abide mortification Ro. 8. 36. Psal. 44. 22. The godly are for gods sake killed continuallye The comfort of Christians in their crosses Mat. 5. 10. 1. Pet. 4. 15. Wee muste regarde the cause of our sufferings The misconceit of euill doers Romish dispensations cause of many euils The canonization of Iudas The vain hope of traytors Their assured revvard that seeke the ouerthrowe of the godly Wee muste take heed of the causes of sufferings The causes of the sufferings of the wicked The zeale of the godly Our duties remembred Hovv vve ought to suffer How the righteous desire to bee canonised Life or death in the last day eternall A good admonition God is our staffe and strength hee vvill defend vs. Psal. 2. 2. The kings of the earth not to be feared it they go about to resist the truth Psal. 3. 1. The end of the wicked Sathan hath sounded vp his trumpets of alarum to inuade christians in the behalf of Antichrist Christ is a carefull vvatchman The benefit of Gods protection The snare is broken and we deliuered The raske vovve of the king of spaine The permittance of the spanish inquisition most vvicked A good remedy for the clensing of a man from self mortification The booke of martyrs ● glasse of romish cruelty The cause why the pope and his disciples now storme A christian resolution VVe muste bewarre of starting backe The ende of the godly The end of the wicked persecutors The conclusion The wicked are tyed within the limits of gods povver God vvil not suffer the vvicked to go vnauenged Our dutiesto God 1. Tim. 2. 1. The sterne of our common vveale Euery man must execut his dutie 2. Tim. 3. 1. 1. Tim. 4. 1. Persecution is there most sharp where the worde of God is follovved moste sincerely Queene Eli●abeth an instrument vnder whome God hath reched vs his truth VVee muste follow Christ in accepting his crosse The seruante is not aboue his maister The children of God must not look for a pleasant life in this vvorlde 2. Tim. 3. 1● They that professe the truth are busseted of Sathan Sathan the archenemy of the church of Christ. Sathan seeketh to preuent the saluation of mā Zachary 3. 1 Sathan stood at the elbovv of Iosua vvhen he prayed Saul persecuted Dauid Iesabell Mat. 8. 26. The churche of God is compared to a

three children So did those that cried out crucify Christ crucify Christ and such as longed for the bloud of his Apostles and finally all such as haue of late dayes martyred or caused so many godly ones to bee burned and otherwise done to death for the testimony of their maister Christ as in the tyme of Queene Mary in England now in France Spaine and in other countreyes where the truth of Gods word is turned into mens owne inuentions Dioclesian Maximinian Maximius Maxentius such like tirannous Emperors not know ing God persecuted the children of God whose endes were miserable What thing can there bee more lamentable then the want of the knowledge of GOD and Christ whereby men flye vnto all kinde of euill deuises without remorce of conscience euen as blinde horses runne into the dyke of their owne destruction contempning the trueth and imbracing falsehood making warre with christ and christians putting their confidence in Pharoas strength and multitudes the broken reede of Aegipt whereby they endeuor to pul downe such as GOD hath exalted and to exalt those whome Gods worde pulleth downe to root vp that which God hath planted and to plant that which the trueth of God rooteth vp to condemne those whome God vouchsafeth to saue and to saue those that the iudgement of God condemneth This wee daily see commeth to passe through want of knowledge of the worde of God which yet the most parte perceiue not the multitude consider not neither do they desire to knowe it But the time will come when their owne consciences wherein they are nowe nothing touched shalbe as a thousand witnesses against them yea as a booke laide open before them wherein they shall see that they haue taken foolish enterprises in hande for want of the wisdome of God and shall then acknowledge that they whome they accounted heretickes whome they accounted vile and contemptible whome they persecuted and put to death for acknowledging that which they accounted false erroneous were the true seruaunts of the high God the sheepe of the heauenly shepheard the church immaculate of the true God and the obedient spouse of their beloued Christ And thē selues to be ledd and wilfullye caried awaye with the vaine traditions of mortall men when they shall sing Woe and well away all too late The iudgement of the Lord lyeth heauy vpon them the truth inuiolable hath already condempned them and their wicked deuises their traiterous practises and mischeeuous enterprises are sufficient testimonies and tokens of their vtter cōdemnation Do not these their manifest and open practises manifest vnto vs men the corruption of their consciences to God And that they are the ministers of Sathan sent to buffit not onely Paule such as preach teach the word of God truly but euen the general company of the church especially the head thereof heere in England our moste gratious and godlye Queene yea they cease not to wheat their swords to sharpen their weapons to deuoure all the godly vpō earth But behold it is Christ himself whō they persecut it is he whom they resist it is he whom they despise it is he against whom they rise and assemble themselues together and it is he whom they seeke to crucify againe in his mēbers But they wil say no they persecute not Christ they seeke not to crucify him againe but they seeke the bloud of such as agree not to their inuentions they thinke that they themselues knowing not God doe not stretch forth their handes to the spoile of the saincts and that their tiranny reacheth not vnto Christ. But alasse they are farre deceiued Paule thought the like before his conuersion who persecuted with might and maine the Christian congregations when he being voide of the true knowledge of God with much cruelty thirsted after the bloud of many innocents as he traueled towards Damascus with authority from the highpreist as these men now pretend to haue from the highe Byshop to persecute the christians the mighty power of God strake him to the earthe and the Lord spake vnto him saying Saul Saul why persecutest thou mee he said not why persecutest thou my Saincts why seekest thou thus to vexe mortall men but plainly said why persecutest thou mee which proueth that although christ be in heauen who is the head his church which are his members here militant in earth is moste deare vnto him and hee that toucheth them toucheth him yea they are as tender vnto him as the apple of his eye Yea such a vnion is there betwene him and his children the saincts namely the godly in earth that he with a general term nameth them himselfe and maketh no exception betweene them and himselfe Wherefore it is a perillous thing to attempt or enterprise the least motion of euill that may bee done against the least of them much more to be auoyded to practise these inhumane and brutish yea more then heathenish attempts against the chief mēbers thereof as of late hath bene attempted Bewarre bewarre therfore al ye that haue bene defiled with this pitch wash your selues agayne in the blood of the Lambe and bee clensed and cry out and make it knowne by an earnest confession and say we haue sinned we haue sinned in seeking to betray the innocent bloud Seeing now deare christian brethren that it hath pleased our gracious God in his sonne to vouchsafe vs so comfortable and happy a lotte as to be accepted as his deare children And for the further confirmation of our hope in his bloud the price of our redemption to make vs pertakers of his crosses Let vs assure our selues that these daungerous attemptes of the wicked are stirred vp by the meanes of Sathan permitted by God for our good Namely lest that wee slumbering in a secure estate accompanied with no daungers shoulde fall into forgetfulnesse of our duties to him who hath not onely reueiled to vs his truth but aforded vs long tranquillity and the benefit of a peaceable time to enioye exercise the same For there is no mortall man can so duely addresse himselfe to the discharge of his duty to God to way the goodnesse of god the performance of his promises and hope of his protection so effectually so duly thankfully and carefully in the time of the tranquillity of bodye and quiet estate of all thinges as in the time of affliction in the time of perills daungers yea when Sathan beginneth to raise his forces and buffets against vs. As appeareth by P. feeling this combate of Sathan striuing laying siege and battery vnto his soule then repaired and betoke himselfe vnder the banner of his captaine Christ and prayed his aide and help to resist him who is alwayes readye if we rightlye seeke him and sincerely serue him And for the increase of our comfort and constant pacience in the bitter assaultes of Sathan incident vnto our profession and that we

rebell to the death of Christe a deceiuer of the people a blinde guyde who togeather with those that he guydeth shall fall into the pit and puddell of desperate ignoraunce and so consequently into the lake of perdition And therefore let not the fayre shew of these counterfeyt christians cloaked Catholiques the crue of the cursed sect of Iugling Iesuites shauen Seminaries and perdicious priestes betraye vs or allure vs to their profession the fruites whereof beeing so ripe that they fall from the tree of the Romish sea rotten within and faire without hauing hony in their lips gall in their hearts the poyson of aspes the loue of Iudas the zeale of Caine appeareth in their practizes they are no christians why then shoulde we giue them the name of Catholiques They seeke bloude they thirste for the death of christians they are murtherers they are not worthye the name of men they are Vipers they couet to eat out the very bowelles of their mother that bare them the common weale that fostered them and woulde fill the lande wherein they were fostered with the bloud of thē by whose protection they haue liued and by whose ayde they haue beene mainteyned they are no subiects they are traytors and rebels their name of Catholiques we see maketh not their calling sure but the name shall be a witnes against them when the vaile of their outwarde shew shall be plucked awaye and the inward intent of their hearts appeare But he that will be a true christian in deede must cast away all dissimulation all hipocrisie all malice all desire of bloud all consent of rebellion treason enuie and idolatrie and put on not onely the outwarde habite but the inwarde zeale of godlinesse as loue faith obedience and true and vnfeyned subiection to GOD and his annoynted of the earth But alas too many are the dissembling christians of these daies I woulde it were not true for there hath beene manifest proofe of the cancred hearts of such as outwardly appeared dutifull subiects whose practizes are so new that the heartes of all true christians are yet bleeding to consider it But now vpon this manifest triall of their treacherie let euen the name of the counterfeyt Catholiques be euen as a lesson to warne vs by their rebellions to become good subiectes by their fals endeuor to stand by their harmes seek to be warie and wise in Christ. Constantius the Emperour intendinge on a time to trie the hearts of those that were about his court whether they were in deede christians or idolaters whereby he might the better discipher and iudge of their loue and faithfull obedience towards him knowing that they that appeared the true seruants of God woulde be most faithfull vnto him and the other the more warely to be auoyded vsed this pollicy when hipocrisie and feyned subiection was not as now it is dispensed with he called togeather all his seruants and officers feyning himselfe to chose out such as would do sacrifice to diuels who should onelye remaine in the court execute the offices there and they that refused should be expulsed Whervpon the courtiers deuided them into companies some of them shewed themselues very ready to fulfill the kinges will and proffered to do sacrifice to diuels others constauntly and boldly refused to doe it The Emperour seeing the rebellion of some of them against God and the faithfull obedience of the other he foorthwith expelled these sacrifices out of his Court and reteyned the other affirming that they onely were fit to be about a prince And therefore from thence foorth he accepted those his moste trustie counsailors and defendors of his person and Empire saying that such were more worthy to be had in estimation and to be accompted of then the substaunce that he had in his treasurie Thus we may note that euery one that sheweth outwarde loyaltie vnto a prince is no more a true subiect by the onelye outwarde shew without the inwarde loue of God then he is to bee accompted a true Christian which in outwarde ceremonies appeareth a Catholike in inwarde affection declyneth from Christe and his truth But God be thanked there hath beene sufficient proofe of perfect heartes neare her maiestie in these late daungers and such heartes as will not doe sacrifice to the Diuell of Rome nor giue consent vnto the tolleration thereof in others But with the swoorde of their authoritye endeuor to cut off both the causers and effectors the tree and the braunches of these conspiracies and no doubt if we shew our selues true christians in deede not key cold or newters but zealous in the defence of Gods truth and stand assistan according to our bounden dueties as true subiectes to her Maiestie in heartes and handes We shall see these Romish Babylonians to cry out lament and mourne as they alreadie begunne to sing this dolefull song Heu heu vrbs illa magna Babylon vrbs illa potens c. Alas alas that great citie the mighty citie Babylon that was so beautifully dected and finely clothed in lynnen purple and scarlet guilded with golde and beautified with pearles and precious stones whose destruction draweth neere But these that thus cry out and lament her ruyne stande a farre off for feare of her torment the kinges of the earth shall bewayle the fall of this great and glorious Citie with whome they haue committed fornication and played the harlottes and taken their delight and pleasures in her Then will her Marchants her spirituall buyers and sellers of soules her Seminaries her Priests and Iesuytes and such like companions who liued by the whoredome of this great whore of Babylon the Pope for losse of their accustomed rewardes and wonted gayne howle and weepe and for their punishments at hand shall stand desperate of all helpe This shall be the estate of those that to some seeme nowe verie perfect Catholikes who haue secretely withdrawen men from their true obedience to Princes lawefully established and haue mooued the spouse of Christe to commit spirituall fornication with the man of Rome and of such as will not nowe suffer wholsome doctrine but hauing their eares itching get them teachers after their owne luste turning their eares from the truth giuing heede vnto fables vnto spirits of error and doctrines of Diuelles hardening their hearts through blindnes of whom Christ himselfe speaketh saying The hearts of the people are waxed fat and their eares are dull of hearing with their eyes haue they wincked least they should see with their eyes heare with their eares and vnderstande with their hearts and so returne that they might be saued What a daungerous thing therfore is this obstinate blindnes and blinde obstinacie wilfull ignorance desperate wilfulnesse and yet woulde these men be accompted Catholiques and Christians But such crookednes and peruersenesse caused Ieremie to crye out and say It is a rebellious people lying children children that will not