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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

for euermore subiect and shal not passe those lymits to touch her highnesse her crowne and dignitie her Magistrats and common weal which he hath alreadie determined for our good and therefore neede we the lesse to feare what they can doe vnto vs but rather let vs trust vpon the assured protection of our mightie and most mercifull God and magnifie his name most terrible to his enemies It is holy they corrupt all honor is due vnto it and eternall plagues are due to them Wherefore I say we neede not to seeke any succour besides him who no doubt will sharply punish all those rebellious multitudes of whom and by whose meanes we are vniustly endaungered For it can not be good Reader that he should suffer such outrage treasons conspiracies and wickednes vnauenged that is the author of equitie and iustice it selfe and hath prescribed vnto the posteritie of Iacob the very rule therof which we must carefully imbrace and followe not onely in outwarde showe but in the inwarde soule And seeing we see the goodnes of our God so farre extended to our continuall comfort let vs prayse him let vs in holinesse and righteousnesse fall downe before his footestoole and truely worship him for he is only holy And as S. Paul exhorteth let supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes for all our brethren as well here at home as in other Countries suffering violence for the testimonie of their good consciences to God And especially let vs praye for our most gratious Soueraigne that God of his goodnes will preserueher and protect her in his power from the bloudie sword which Gods assured enemies haue whetted to take away her most innocent life her Counsaile and Magistrates being vnder her the sterne of our peaceable gouernement let vs duly regard in our prayers for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour And as the Lord consecrated Moses and Aaron of olde and set Samuel also amongest them to exercise the office of the Mediator for the people and whylest they executed the same sincerely they were heard and the Lorde spake vnto them out of the cloudy piller prescribing vnto them the way and rites of his diuine worship So let euerie Moses and Aaron together with Samuel the priest and the Prophet the king and the people execute their duties vnto the same God in true worshippe in supplications praiers intercessions and giuing of thankes one for another as the carefull members of one body in our head Christ in whom who so followeth the good example of Moses and Aaron shall assuredly be likewise duly heard and in conuenient time releeued For the Lorde many times vouchsasing his eare vnto them suffered himselfe oftentimes to be pacified by their faithfull prayers Seeing then that we haue a Mediatour euen Christ Iesus to present our prayers vnto God and to reconcile vs to God let vs not be slack in our praiers nor weake in our faith but constantly beleeue that as he hath hetherunto protected vs so he will continue our defence for euermore Thine in Christian goodwill I. Norden Errata Page 8. line 25. for Maximius read maximinus p. 10. l. 18. f. wheat whet●e p. 13. l. 39. for perishe precisely p. 14. l. 14. f. in religion to religion p. 15. l. 14 f. we no. p. 22. l. 11. f. of such with such p. 24. l. 6. f. auere auerre p. 24. l. 19. f. they waie the waie p. 34. l 26 f positions potions p. ●1 l. 5. f. implication application p. 86. l. 28. f. consent of consent to p. ●8 l. 7. f. sacrifices sacrificer● p. 89. l. 5 f. begun begin p. 93. l. 26. f. drawe drowne A MIRROR FOR the Multitude CHAP. 1. A Comfortable discourse to perseuere in the trueth notwithstanding persecution with a dehortation from ioyning with the multitude in conspiracye against the same ALTHOVGH it is by the Prouidence of Almightye God our lotte to fall into these daungerous times troublesome dayes foretold so long agoe wherein we see and heare the maine and seuere thunderclapps of bitter persecution to rage and rattle in diuers corners of the earth And especially where the glory of God is most sought for his trueth most imbraced and the darknesse of errour moste reiected Let vs bee of good comfort let vs arme our selues with a full assurance of our happy estate in resisting errors and the pleasing thinges of this world with the force of Christianlike patience in a cleare conscience wherein also let vs take hold of that assured trueth which God by Christ hath to our cōfort by his instrumēt our most gratious Queene as with his outstretched arme reached restored most louingly vnto vs again beeing taken away by her sister Quene Mary Let vs therfore like valiaunt souldiers vnder the bāner of a most victorious and wise captaine let vs march-on as we haue begunne nay if it be possible more valiauntly more willingly and more circumspectly through the brunt of al contemptible things namelie through the darcksome night of ignorance vnto the day-light of the sincere truth not fearing the force of the pikes of whatsoeuer persecution threatned whatsoeuer pollicy or practise pretended And for our defence lette vs take holde of the sweete promises and promised swetnesse of our heade and assured reste Christe Iesus who is our guide and captaine vnder whose ensigne we must fight without feare of bodilie affliction for we must followe him in patient acceptance of his crosse for the truths sake as hee himselfe hath trayned the way He is the louing husband of his obedient spouse the Churche wherof whosoeuer accompteth himself a member must thinke himself happy if he be thought worthy to suffer like affliction with him For hee hath allowed none that are his indeede any farther prerogatiue of quiet and liking daies in this naturall body then he himself was forced to abid in the pilgrimage of this life And for that he would not haue his little flock discouraged when the stormy blastes of persecution should beat against the walls of their weake nature as though some straunge thing did happen hee gaue them forewarning and as it were a caueat that they should not looke for a pleasant life in this world for euery one that will liue godlie in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution And by many tribulations they must enter into the king dome of heauen It is euident that the truth in Christ namely the trueth which hee taught is the way that leadeth vnto the kingdome of heauen which truth also neuer passeth without some buffets of Sathan and his ministers And why onlie because it is the ouerthrow of his kingdome of darknes And therefore whatsoeuer he bee that seeketh endeuoreth to set forth the glory of God and the misteries of his Christ whether by preaching or by whatsoeuer other christianlike exercise muste arme himselfe against the assaultes of this wonted

persecuting executioners that it is not their tyrannie that can suppresse or the cruell force of the multitude that can resiste the approoued and manyfest trueth which wee professe and will shewe and openlye declare that the deuises and imaginations of man are but vayne Naye further to shew his iudgementes of these bloud-thirstie men he will sende their destruction with the same torment they prepared for his children For let vs beholde and to our comfort and for our learning consider that notwithstanding these three poore men were caste into so feruent a burninge flame that there appeared no possibilitie for them to escape euen suddaine consumation of their bodyes with the force of the fier yet suche was the power and prouidence of him that hath all thinges in subiection vnder his feete that he preserued them in suche sort as in the midest of the fire they walked safelye and to shewe his iustice threwe out the slame vpon those ministers of the king that executed his will therin so that they that digged the pit for others fel themselues into the same they were taken with the snare that they prouided for others Euen so shall that proude Haman of Rome in the ende bee hanged in the gallowes that he hath set vp for godly Mardocheus of England We must thinke that these examples were written for our learning and verye sitte for our time to be considered according to the present course of men for as then Nabuchadnezer thoght that the consent of so many great men vnto his idolatry approoued the same to bee very sound and good And when these three men stoode in defence of the true religion of God as now we see that our small Islande of Englande amonge many other famous countries of the world holdeth and possesseth the gospell with part of other nations as it pleaseth God to afforde his grace among vs. And as then these three men were condemned of the multitude and our selues in like maner misliked of the moste as the liuing God then prouided for their safety so no doubt he dooth and will doe for ours though not in present outwarde deliueraunce yet no doubt in inwarde comfortes whereby there appeareth no cause why the children of GOD should feare the multitude although the people in a common prouerbe agree that many heades are better then one whereby they goe about and seeme to approoue the venemous and brutish serpent Hydra to be the wisest beast that euer was in respecte of the multitude of his heades when we know many silly creatures of the earth in many vertues to exceede such monsters But this seemeth not agreeable to my matter beeing Euangelical for that this application is poeticall But surelie it is not without good morall for the multitude in deede may be well compared to a beaste of manye heades vnstayed in respect of manye guides vnconstaunt in respect of many mindes vnruly in respect of manye members And therfore this argument of many heads better then one holdeth not in causes of heauenlye reuelations for the trueth commeth not from the multitude it proceedeth not from the wise nor is to be expected of the learned in respect of the many professing one things or in re spect of the wise in naturall pollicies nor in respect of profound study It commeth not from men of whatsoeuer iudgement but euen from the very spirite of God the teacher thereof The truth is Gods it is of God and his gift it is that the men of base callinges and iudgementes in worldlie causes conceiue the trueth speake the truth and are able to teach the trueth which in deede of it selfe is simple pure cleare and not mixed with the traditions nor the deuises nor tyed to the power or strength of mortall men And therefore to shew the weaknesse of manye heades and their errours and to confirme his truth by the handes of one and that of the weakest and moste frayle sexe he caused an example in that behalfe to bee written for our experience namely that where there were manye magistrates in the Citie of Bethulya and they all layinge there heades together determined a course contrarye to the truth namely rashlye to tye the will of God and his hande to their owne prefixed time or els to giue ouer their Citie to the Captayne of the enimie of God This was their resolute determination when indeed it behooued them by the rule of Gods worde to haue referred them-selues in faith vnto the good prouidence of God as these forenamed three men did and to tarry the Lords leasure for their deliuery But a sillie woman perceiuing this their rashe resolucion by the instincte of the holye Ghoste the teacher of the truth openly reprooued them in that they shewed in themselues no sparke of patience neither allowed that power and omnipotencie to God for their deliuerie which he shewed to manye before them but tying as it were his will vnto their wils indented with him the tyme and maner of their deliuerie And shee referring the whole state of the Citie vnto the mightye hande of the Lorde in a perfect hope sounded vpon the truth miraculouslye preuayled in deliuering the poore besiged Citie from the blouddy handes of the wicked idolaters This was a weake meane in the iudgement of man yet did the Lorde vouchsafe vnto her proceedinges the successe acceptable vnto the poore oppressed heartes of manye people And let vs then but thinke the lyke or farre more power is giuen vnto the hande of our godlye Iudith to cut off the hautye aspiringe heade of mightye Holophernes of Rome and his adherentes the graunde Captaine of all the aduersaries of Christ and Christians These examples reprooue those that in their actions goe about either to tie Gods truth vnto their many heads or build their resolucion vpon the might of the multitude If Noah had builded his resolucion vppon the resolucion of the multitude and had ioyned his consent vnto the resolute determinations of the multitude hee shoulde haue had his portion with the multitude in the swelling and mercylesse waters and not haue tasted the sweetnesse of the prouidence of GOD in the Arke So surelye if we shoulde looke into the common sort of men into the generalitie of consents or into the common vse of countries not guide our selues by the rule of Gods worde we coulde not but perish in the merciles waters of errours and neuer enioy the sweet comfort of the Arke with the true Church of Christ. And therefore had Lot a care a diligent eye and carefull consideration vnto the course of the Citye of Sodome and feared to giue consent vnto the multitude because he knew their generall inclinations declininge from the right waye And so leauing the multitude vnto their owne course tooke a priuate course with himselfe according to the direction of the trueth and was saued from the destruction that fell vpon the multitude so that we maye

cordes from vs their cordes of falsehoode flatterie and tyrannie where with they endeuour to binde vs vnto their willes Let vs not be wonne by their allureinents nor feare their forces domesticall or forraine for God that dwelleth in the heauens shal laugh them to scorne and they that feare his name shall haue them in derision he shall breake their bowes in peeces gnappe their speares in sunder and make their artylerie their munition and other their martiall prouisions scurges and roddes to correct themselues for although hee haue a long time winked at their wantonnesse wylinesse and they haue flattered themselues nianye yeares in a foolish hope and a diuelish desire of ouerthrowing the truth and the chiefe protectors thereof here in earth let vs assure our selues that hee will not haue his glorie defaced nor permit his owne power to come into sclaunder but by a fewe of his true and faithfull seruantes will showe himselfe able to vanquish the greatest multitudes of his aduersaries And although he be able to confounde them euen with the breath of his mouth yet will hee showe his power extending ayde vnto his seruauntes taking the defence of his trueth in hande the aduersaries where of he sometimes consoundeth euen with the hands of his aduersaries risin● one against another He suffered Shenacheryb King of the Assyrians a longe time to flatter himselfe and to boaste and bragge of his mightie multitudes and his huge hoaste of mightie menne who did in the brauerie of his owne conceite make open proclamation as it were agaynst the liuing God the God of trueth blaspheminge and sayinge knowe yee not howe and what I and my Fathers haue doone in other Countryes howe wee haue conquered manie Nations raunsacked Cities and brought their people into great subiection bondage and seruitude Why doeth Hesekyah then perswade you to trust in anie other but in mee and to feare anie besides mee For were the Gods of other landes of force to withstande my multitudes the power of my mightie men of warre and to deliuer the people out of my handes Noe more shall yee bee able to stande before mee And therefore yeelde your obedience and loyaltie to mee and my ministers or else I will deale in the like measure with you Here are great and glorious wordes heere are terrible and sharpe speeches thundering as he would haue throwen downe heauenlye Ierusalem and haue plucked the King of Kinges out of his throne And I praye let vs a little compare the hawtie bragges of the Romish Shenacheryb with this Assyrian Kinge and by the successe of the one coniecture of the ende of the other The itteration or repetition of the bragges boastings and thundering vants of Senacheryb of Rome is needlesse being so plainely euery where noted and especially from the sea of Rome from Spaine Fraunce and such like hoat and furious Countryes where the sunne of perdition shineth But as this Assyrian Shenacheryb and his Fathers by Gods permission preuayled a while in oppressing manie Countryes Cities and people Yet at the length when hee thought himselfe sure of the praye and spoyle of Ierusalem suddenlie came the power of him who neuer fayleth the faithful and destroyed all the valiant men Princes and Captaines euen his whole armie to the number of one hundred fourescore and fiue thousande men And this great boasting tyrant himselfe flying vnto Niniuie and in the temple of his Idols as a iust rewarde for his arrogancie pryde and blasphemie Adramelech and Sharazar his owne sonnes slewe him with a sworde Euen so althoughe that Shenacheryb of Rome and his predecessors haue these manie yeares preuayled with force and falshoode bewitching the heartes of manie Kinges Countryes Nations Cities and people saying who is the Lorde am not I hee that haue brought so manie into my subiection seruitude and bondage Why doth then Hesekyah of Englande perswade her people to trust in anye besides mee for as I haue doone to Spayne to Fraunce and diuerse other Countryes Cities and people so will I doe vnto Englande I will bring them into their woonted obedience vnto my decrees or else will I send my multitudes and my mightie men to beseege their Cities and to vanquish their people in such sorte as they shall not escape Here is much a doe heere are great wordes a fryuolous ostentation of a mortall man the enemie of God a member of Sathan friende to no good man a poyson to euerie Christian soule that is defiled with his enchauntmentes the pitch of perdition which who so toucheth is polluted with a deadly filth can hee not looke into the course and confusion of this Assyrian King and sette him as a mirror or glasse to beholde his owne proceedinges and what shall become of him without his vnfeyned conuertion And cannot his adherentes call to minde the ende of this Assyrian armie surelie were they not besotted with the confidence in their owne power and strengthes they woulde call it to minde and tremble for feare that their successe in the seruice of suche a mayster cannot bee good nor take a salutarie ende Wherefore with diligence in the feare and reuerence of the mightie GOD of heauen let vs eschewe their faction and marche vnder the banner of Christes trueth assuring our selues that as the Lorde with the breath of his mouth ouercame so mightie a multitude of the Assyrians thyrsting for the spoyle of Ierusalem And as he raysed such as discended from the loynes of that Assyrian King to kill him for his tyrannye and pryde So is hee able to resist or confounde the multitudes of our enemies the enemyes of the trueth abroade and at home And further if with patience wee wayte his good pleasure he shall rayse vp such as haue discended of the bowels of the Romish Shenacheryb to turne euen their forces and their powers against him in the iudgement of GOD to confounde him It is not in vayne that our mercifull God commaundeth his children to call vppon him in the daye of trouble and hee will heare them and releeue them against whatsoeuer aduersaries for hee hath no respecte of persons but he that walketh in the trueth and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him he bringeth the proude boasting of the arrogant to howling and weeping and exalteth such as are lowly in him There was no comparison betweene great G●lyah and little Dauid to the eyes of those that sawe them both march towardes the combate For naturall reason coulde not haue iudged the victorie to go with Dauid for that that in respect of his stature person there was no more equalitie than betweene a little mouse and a great Elephant and as their persons strengthes were farre vnlike so were their weapons and externall instrumentes of warre for the strong man had farre the greater oddes for hee was armed for the purpose with speare and shielde and poore Dauid was naked onely a slinge in his hande

whome the mighty hand of the God whome he serued sufficientlye protected shutting the Lions mouthes so that they could not hurt him But when those were cast into the den that conspired his death they were rent in peeces ere they came to the ground of the den This Daniell was likewise hardlye beset with manye enemies for that he in zeale of Gods truth reprehended Cyrus king of Persia for permitting and committing suche idolatrye vnto a filthy monster Bell the idoll of whome such was the opinion of the king and the people that they worshipped it as God the whole multitude fell downe before it But Daniell resisting them to their faces sayd this that yee worship is an idoll and no God and when the kinge hearde that he seemed wroth and to maintaine this Dragon to be a God he framed his argument saying doest thou thinke it to bee no God beholde he eateth and drinketh and therefore doest thou speake blasphemie against our God he eateth an hundred gallons of fine flowre and forty sheepe and drinketh sixe great pots of wine euery day here was a gluttonous God But beholde the poore idoll was slandered and deceiued for the priests their wiues and children deuoured all this prouision secreatlye These were like vnto our late abbey lubbers who deuoured that in loiteringe lasines which the painfull labourers should liue by But poore Daniell beeing sharply reprooued not onely at the handes of the king but threatned by the multitude not fearing their force hauing his assured confidence in the help of the liuing God and seeking to maintaine his glorye and deface superstition idolatrye vndertooke the destruction of this false God without swoord or staffe which he by his power whose hande is alwayes ready to assist his seruaunts and to confound his aduersaries presently performed and brake it all in peeces confounded it and shewed it in it likenes namely to be a false and counterfeyt image and in deed no God Whereat the whole multitude of the Babylonians raged not onely against Daniell but also against the king himselfe for that hee permitted Daniell to take this enterprise in hand The king being timorous and more fearing the force of the multitude then seeking the glory of the liuing God deliuered poore Daniell into their handes who threw him violentlye into the Lions den to be deuoured But such was the omnipotent power of God ouer these greedy and rauenous beastes which Daniels aduersaries of purpose kept hungry and without meat to make their stomaches so much the more greedy of the bloud of this seruant of the true GOD who in suche sort stopped their mouthes that they hurt not Daniell at all What a most louing God what a mighty and merciful iudge of our distresse doth he shew himselfe for this is also written for our learning to shew that he neuer saileth the faythfull but helpeth them in due time of need And that we should not fear the great and mighty multitudes of Romish Babylonians that endeuor to bring vs into the den of their deuouring Lions their spanish inquisition and such like deepe deuoring gulphes that they haue deuised to ouerthrow if they coulde euery true Daniell by persecutions torturs and the feare of death Now for asmuch as we haue seene the mighty workes of the Lorde in great aboundance towards the deliuery of those that put their vnfeyned confidence in his protection vsinge sometymes worldly meanes sometimes his power against worldly meanes and sometimes without worldly meanes to allure his people in their distres to come vnto him for their encouragement hath made waies for their safety when naturall reason coulde not deuise or imagine the meane to escape and hath by few of his seruants ouerthrown vanquished great multitudes of his aduersaries pulled downe the mighty by the hand of the weak and exalted the weake against the expectation of the mightye Let vs therefore duely applye all these his mighty workes to our instruction according vnto the time set them before our eles as a mirror or glasse to see the estate of the enimies of God their slippery standings and weake holds and the sure refuge the buckler which the righteous haue in the mighty hand of God The christiās we see are inuironed with manye perillous snares of the enimies of God their state in naturall reason standeth dangerous but the Lord deliuereth them out of all And therfore let vs assure our selues of the ayde of him that hath not as we see failed those that truly and constantly professed his name And as he hath beene neare vnto them so will he be vnto vs if with pure heartes and constaunt mindes we perseuer and continue not as hypocrites neither as suche as beare the name onelye of Christians but very christians not in name so much but that our conuersations may bee aunswerable therunto to the vttermost to the praises of God and our saluation in Christ. CHAP. 3. A comfortable conclusion to stirre vp such as couet to be called Christians to bee inwardly the same that they doe outwardly professe to be considering that it is not the name but the pure life in Christe that maketh a Christian. THE bishop of Rome and his adherentes doe perswade all men to ioyne with them in the Religion whiche they holde Catholique which the holy Ghost reprooueth and sheweth it to be meere idolatry and altogether repugnant against the truth They say and affirme it to be true pure and the sounde religion the way that leadeth vnto Christe and saluation in him But the trueth findeth that the foundation thereof is layde vppon traditions and inuentions and not vpon the rocke Christe Iesus frō whose example whoso dissenteth cannot though in name yet not in deed become a perfect Christian or true catholike whatsoeuer great shewes of deuotion workes of charitie abstinence prayers or other outwarde ceremonies these fayned and false foxes these hidden and cloaked Catholiques can or do glory of although they could deriue the same from the beginning of the worlde from the wise from the studious and learned from the mighty or greatest multitudes of the whole worlde and from a generall president For the truth whereupon the conuersation of euerye Christian is to bee grounded is setled in the heart of none by the power the will the wisedome or inuentions of man neither can it bee increased or bettered by the pollicie of anie nor sufficientlye protected or mainteined by the authoritie of princes but where first the spirit of GOD hath framed the foundation By the meere workinge whereof it is apprehended followed imbraced and duelye mainteined and by it the spirite of errour and falshood and counterfeyt christianitie is reuealed controuled suppressed and confounded and so consequentlye the perfect trueth confirmed and allowed Besides which truth who so endeuoureth to establishe any doctrine carry it neuer so fayre and glorious a shewe of good intent is a

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

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