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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

daies of king H. 8. The continuance of our reduction o● of Romishe Egipt by K. ● 6. Our recaptiuity in the daies of Qu. Mary Our redemption by Q. Elizabeth To beware of murmuring against her Maiesty and other godly magistrats The danger or looking back into Egipt or Sodō appeareth by Lots wife Sathan raiseth euen kings to persecute the godly Dauids complaint against conspirators to be applied to these daies The foolishe vaunts of the Egiptians The strength of Nabucadnesa●s multitude was his own confusiō Ier. 27. 1 2. King 24. 7 A resemblāce betwene the actions of old Nabuc of Babilon the nevv Nabu of Rome The fauour of God tovvardes such as build their enterprises vpō the truth Gods iustice in casting dovvne the proud Nabuchadnezars revvard for his pryde A metamorphosis of Nabuchadnezar The applications of the ●●ll of Nab. The vauntes ofromish Nabuca●dnezar His vsurpations The pride fall of Nab vvas a●●pe of the pride sub●●ersion of the Pope Ho●v the Pope his ad●erents are become trans f●●med into bruit beasts Their food The hair of ●●●ir heads The ●●yles of their hāds The 〈…〉 ce of our deliuery in Christ. Iericho throvven dovvne with the breath of Gods mouth God vvill turne the flame of these conspiracies to consum● the actors thereof Let vs caste avvay the cords of conspirators frō v s. Ps. 2. 3. How we must encourage out selues in God 2. Kin 1● 13 The pro●de vaunts of Senacharib A comparison between Senach k. of Assiria and the Pope The spoile ouerthrovve of Senacheribs army The death of Senach k. of Assiria The vaunts of Romish Senacherib England a pricke in the popes eye therefore he threatueth it The Popes holinesse A mirror for the Romanists God is ●●l● to 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 from the popes ovvne 〈…〉 to con●●ūd him The vn●●klihoo● o● 〈…〉 to ●●l Go 〈…〉 Gods prouidence against naturall reason The glory of the Pope Ios. ● 〈…〉 and the strength thereof The ouerthrovv of Iericho Iud. ● 15. A huge company o● Mad●…ouercome by Gideon and a 〈◊〉 number of 〈◊〉 men Reu. 18. 7. The meane to ouerthrow Romish Iericho Reu. 18. 2. Esa. 21. 9 Gen. 11. 4. God throvveth downe aspiring mindes The confusiō of ●ongues The multitud of Nimrods company God detesteth the deuises of those that couet to climbe into heauen by their ovvne deserts The confusiō of the language that the Romanists vse The difficult agreeing of the builders and labourers or seruitors of the Romishe tower Aho●chpotch o● inuentions instead of the sincere relig● The counterfait bricke morter of the Romanists The resolutiō in building the tower of vvilfull rebellion against the death of Christ. 1. Sam. 13. The trouble● of Dauid by Saule 1. Sam. 24. 4. 1. Sa. 19. 1. Dauids extreme distresse and his deliuery by the prouidence of god The greatest foe of our felicity is partly vnarmed VVhen our aduersaries are in the prime of their hope they sh●l ●li● back ●…t be dis●… Psal. 2. God cannot abide any practises against his church Psal. 73. 3. It is admirable to see the prosperity of the wicked The vvicked namely conspirators are in slippery places Ps. 7● 18. 19. 1. Sa. 31. 4. Psal. 73. 27. God is good vnto the godly Dan. 6. 12. The revvard of conspirators Daniel 14. Daniel hardly beset for reprehending idolatry The boldnes of Daniell in the zeale of gods truth A gluttonou● God The confusiō of an imaginatiue God Amiraculous vvorke of God to stop rauening lyons mouthes God neuer saileth the faithfull The conclusion God by manie means shovveth himselfe helpfull to his Christians a● enuironed with many snares God vvilbee neere vnto vs if vve bee neere vnto him with singlenesse of heart and not as hipocrites The holy Ghost reproueth the romish religion True religion is not grunded in the hart by the vvill or power of man The spirit of God the tryer of true religion The fruits of papistry are fair without soule with in The description of Romish catholickes Their name shall be a witnes against them Cancred harts vnder the outvvard showe of due tifull subiects The policy of Constantius in trying the hearts of his seruaunts The faithfull seruaunts of God are most true subiectes to their princes VVho they be that are fittest to attend vpon a prince Faithfull sub●e●●● as deare as the beste treasure A good prose of faithful hearts about her maiesty Reu. 18. 10. The dolefull song of the ruine of Romishe Babylon The estate of romish merchaunts namely buiers and sellers of soules in the day of their ruine ● Tim. 4. Christ prophecied of these daies Mat. 13. Esai 30. Simple men tyed to the romish religion with cords of ignorance Difference betvvene the ignorance of the Iewes in the daies of Christ and these of this present vvilfull ignorāce VVee muste call our selu● to an accoūt The title of a christian no●● enough vvithout the deedes The bragge● of romish catholicks Good works ill done VVho they be that shhall ascend into heauen VVords and on●vvarde ●hovves oftē de ceaue Counterfait deuotion couereth diuelish deuise● Parries outvvard attendance a cloke for treason God discouereth hipocri●● and giueth them their revvard The vvisdome of Vlisses God blesseth our heartes vva●e●eth them so with his holy spirit that they bringforth the outvvard fruits The Lord hath no de light in painted holines VVe muste follow Christ in our conuer sations and professions Mat. 7 11. Luc. 6 It is not enough to say vve knovve Christ but we must doe that vve learne of Christ Act. 17. 11. The men of Thessal and Berea an example to try and search for the truth The sciptures testifle of Christ. 105. 39. Aug. de vit Christiana The definitiō of a christian Christianity consisteth in mercy and loue Many that are called Christians come too short o● beeing true christians A thanklese office to ●eprone offences The confession of the author The authors cheefest expectation Gods prouidence in s●n ding dearth a try all of true christians A great abuse in many in these daies of dearth A token of cold christianity Let vs pray for reformation The greatest testimony of an vnchristiā like consciēce The hungry bodies of the poore muste pine to fill the filthy desires of the rich He that is a true christian must fight against concupiscence The vvhole vvorld is the lords A perilous conceit of the rich VVee doe not vveepe vvith them that vveepe God vvill call an a●e compt 〈◊〉 vs hovv vve ha●● bestovved our goods Sovvre sauce after svveete meat Go 〈…〉 god The aduersaries of gods ●●uth note our professiō to be accompanied with vngodly actions Outvvarde sanctetie and invvard sin Gods visitation by dearth a good●●yall of true christians The experience vvhich vve haue by dearth findeth fevv true christians Psal. 40. A comfortable blessing to encourage christians yet little regarged A c●●se against counter●a●● christians Such measure as we meate such vvill God measure to vs. That vvhich many do imagine glorious novv shalbe in the end no excuse Our externall glory nothing Many make fair shovves a farre of Daungerous people VVeeds amongst good corne Card. Comos letters to Parrie The cheefest lesson of the romish tutors VVhat it is to deny Christ. True religion shovveth itselfe in charity Hovv to knovv a true and a false Christian Neuters deny Christ. The aduersaries of the truth doe striue invaine against true christians God maintaineth the true doctrine of his vvord Ro. 15. The vvorld the multitude cannot abide the truth All that hear the vvorde of God of not the seruants of god God that vvrought so vvonderfully for our fathers of old vvill vvorke for vs. Our deliuery from the Romishe bondage is farre more pretious then of the children of Israell out of Egipt A good exchaunge Our saluatiō standeth in the true knovvledge and seruice of God Reformation of our liues is the svvetest song that pleaseth the Lorde

heare the lawe of the Lord but say vnto the seers see not and to the Prophetes prophecie not vnto the people the trueth but speake flattering wordes vnto them prophecie errors go out of the way forsake the right path cause the holy one of Israell to cease from vs. Is not this the manner of these men to keepe such frō the truth which are tyed to their vsurped authoritie with the cordes of obstinate blindnes which was the cause that in the dais of Christ himself the multitude cried out to crucifie him yet thought they did wel Christ praied his father to forgiue thē saying they knowe not what they doe But it is now otherwise with vs for we haue the trueth before vs we may read it we haue the truth preched we may heare it we haue it reuealed we may vnderstande it and therefore the neglecting thereof is now inexcusable and the Lord will not suffer his truth now to be darkened with feyned holines And therefore let vs returne vnto our selues enter into cōsideration of our own cōuersations whether they be framed according to the trueth which we haue learned We are fruitfully most plentifully fed with the bread of life the gospell of Christ beyond al other Nations of the world let vs not be therfore glorious in our words only or in our outward actiōs expecting the praise of mē but let vs be pure in hart obediēt in soule mind to God that searcheth the raynes and entrals thereof and accepteth not of those that can but brag and say we haue the Gospell wee haue the Gospell and bringe not foorth the fruites of the Gospell It was not enough for the Iewishe Priestes to crye out the temple of God the temple of GOD as though the bare title of the temple maketh it the true temple of God or the name of a Christian a member of Christ or the title of a Protestant wherof some doe boast a man in deede that protesteth in life and inward zeale that he is a true Christian. The Papists cry out we are catholiques we are catholiques we are of the Church for looke vpon our external works of charity actions of deuotiō we fast we praye wee giue almes we pinch our bodies we scurge our selues wee are they that shall ascende vnto the holy hill But alas howe far these things are of thēselues from that which God requireth he himself declareth saying such as haue pure heartes and cleane handes such as are inwardly zealous togither with the outward testimonies of their godly life such shall inherite heauen And therefore there may bee manie wolues in lambes skinnes many deuils vnder the habite of Pharazaicall deuotion and therefore not in wordes or outwarde behauiour only standeth the perfect estate of a Christian but euen in the sinceritie and perfect purenesse of the heart depending in faith vppon the merits of Christ The outward action is the messenger of the hart it is a witnesse of the minde but not at all times a like for the outwarde kysse of Iudas was outwardly a token of loue and yet it proceeded of an heart full of gall and bitternesse of deceyte and murther his words of all hayle master came as if his lippes had testified obedience to his master but the poyson of Aspys was vnder his tong The muncke of Swynsted that poysoned Kinge Iohn came with his poysoned potion with the sweete words of wassayle my Leige and inwardly pretended the death of the King are there not in these dayes manie that can couer their poysoned practises with the outward show of all hayle Madam and God saue your Maiestie and such like faire words that come frō a poysonsom stomach doth not counterfeite deuation couer many diuelish deuises Is not sometimes dutifull obedience made the cloke for wilfull rebellion and diligent attendance made the collour of conspiracie Looke vpon Parrie his practises and there is a proofe of these pollicies Man seeth not the heartes of men but God findeth them out in their secrete counsailes he bewrayeth some to be traytors that make outward show of true subiectes And therefore let no man deceiue himselfe in a perswasion of his saftie when his heart is burned with the hoat yron of a guiltie conscience against God or his Prince God will not be flattered with although man flatter man dissemble with man or play the hypocrite before men for he will vncouer their cunning and reueale their inwarde deuises and showe them vnto the worlde as a due reproch and rewarde them in fine with the condigne guerdon of their endlesse tormentes Oh let vs therefore be wise in the truth let vs be circumspect as serpentes that wee be not ouer taken with these alluring Cerenes that sing sweetly in our eares absolution absolution pardon pardon dispensation dispensation for sin they deceyue vs they drawe vs with the flouds of errors beware that their pleasant tunes preuayle not with any of vs but like wise Vlysses let vs binde our soules to the maste of the trueth of Gods word least we yeeld the sayles of our consentes vnto the winde of their wylinesse and so being pertakers of their practises wee become likewise pertakers of their punishments Let vs be simple as doues let vs harbour no kind of wil to ioyne our selues with these dangerous men although the greatest part of the world that vnder the pretence of holines vnder the title of catholikes seeke to ouerthrowe the kingdome of god the church of Christ the knowledg of his word preching of his gospel Although they say Lord Lord they are not thereby made the seruants of the Lord. If we do not that which the Lord cōmandeth we are meere enemies vnto the Lorde It is not ynough to beare the greene leaues and the beautifull blossomes of a godly life but we must bring forth the fruits which come frō the roote heart of our in warde affections zealous obedience wherwith euery true christian is so adorned that whensoeuer Christ our sauiour passeth by vs with consideration of our good-workes he findeth thē so frutefull that he blesseth the figge tree of our hearts making it profitable though no● of it selfe yet by the inspiration of his holy spirite in such sort as men may see our good fruites glorifie our father for his mercifull watering our soules to the bringing foorth therof And on the contrary where there are the leaues the glorious showe of a godly life only in externall actions without the true fruts proceeding frō the heart the Lord hath no pleasure in that tree but curseth it withereth it euen with the breath of his mouth so that they that passe by shall say that in such paynted Sepulchers the Lorde hath no delight We must therefore endeuor to bring forth the fruts of a godly holy innocent life following as in outward profession so in

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