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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

bent their bowes and made readie their quiuers ful of sharpe arrows although they haue whetted their swordes prepared powder peeces and shot let vs not I say be any whit at all dismayd at these their hautie attemptes For beholde God who is iealous of his owne cause will not suffer his honour to be throwen in the dust his Church to be ouerthrowen his trueth troden downe nor mans owne inuentions grounded vppon the weake foundation of good intent and not vppon the rocke the worde of God to goe awaye with the glorie For surely great is the truth and it shall preuaile let Herode rage let Iudas dissemble let Pilate Iudge let all the crue of Antichristian potentates conspire consulte condemne controule coniure afflicte persecute and seeke by all meanes to suppresse the trueth It shall in dispighte of them and all their forces breake foorth appeare and shew it selfe most triumphantly to the vnspeakeable comforte of the little flocke of Christ and to as great terror of these men mightie multitudes as the renting of the temple shaking of the earth and the other strange euentes at the crucifying of Christ were vnto that huge multitude of the aduersaries of the truth in those dayes yea farre greater forasmuch as it is nowe plentifullie preached manifest and auncient then newe and straunge and not reuealed to all Wee are nowe voyde of all excuse and although Christe himselfe prayed his Father not to laye the cryme of his death vppon them or to their charge in respect of their ignorance it shalbe farre otherwise with those that in these daies so obstinately seeke to crucifie him againe But to imagine or thinke that eyther the trueth is tyed to the multitude or to bee ouercome by the wisedome the pollicie the force or multitude of men or that the rage of Tyrauntes can extinguishe that ardent and godlie zeale that by the instinction of the holie Ghost is imprinted in the heartes and consciences of the faithfull members of the assured heade and vnmooueable rocke Christe Iesus were meere incredulitie nay a meere denyall of Christe and of his power and vertue Wherefore be it farre from vs to yeelde anie prerogatiue at all vnto the multitude further then may stande with the woorde of God And for our instruction and farther comfortes sake let vs with pure heartes and innocent intentes looke backe consider what our good God hath doone for our Fathers of olde that did professe his name aright whereby wee shall haue due proofe that it is not the multitude that imbrace his trueth nor that can resist suppresse or preuayle against the same although from the beginning the church of God hath bin farre the least part of the worlde the least part of euerie countrey and kingdome the least part of euerie Citie yea the least part of euerie congregation Yet such hath beene the care and louing affection of God towardes his fewe and small number that he hath not suffered them at anie time to take the foyle at the handes of his aduersaries beeing neuer so manie and mightie But doubtles this their argument of the force and soundnesse of the multitude doth not a little harme with the weaker sort of people whose heartes are not grounded vppon the sure foundation of Gods mightie protection And by reason thereof is the verie sounde of the multitude terrible only for that they knowe not nor consider the mightie workes of the Lord whose hand bringeth mightie thinges to passe they are ignorant of the truth and therefore can not conceyue the goodnesse of the Lord but desperately break out into this dangerous resolutiō namely to take part with the multitude be it with or against the truth They consider not how that god hath said that he hath chosen the weake thinges of the earth to confound the mightie the foolish such as in the world are accounted foolish to confound the wise in their own conceits the vile and base ones and such as are not regarded but despised in the world he hath raised vp and appointed to bring those things to nought which in the iudgment of man are of great estimation and account and the cause is that none should too much glorie in his owne strength wisdome or power No flesh should glorie in the presence of God Is not this sufficient to mooue the heartes of all those that couet to be accounted Christians to stande in the truth although they be therefore despised in the worlde threatned of the worlde and are as strangers and outcastes to the world rather then to accompanie the multitude and become glorious in the world and hated of god strong in the worlde and weake in the truth familier with the world at discord with Christ conuersant in the worlde and straungers in the Church of God Seeing that it is not the number of the persones the power or glorious showe of the persons but the inwarde godlye zeale of the heart the vnfeyned affection of the heart which bringeth foorth perseueraunce in the truth vnto the ende whome God regardeth to whom he giueth aide to stand and victorie wherein truely to boast and say the mightie hande of the Lorde hath done this thing and in so doing he will not suffer his little contemned children to be confounded of the high and hautie minded multitudes but will confound them in their own imaginations And therfore saith he feare not my little flocke be not discōforted or discouraged I wil fight for you wil scatter your enemies before your faces I wil throwe downe and confounde these wicked people that delight and long for warre that thirst after bloud and hunger after the destructiō of the Saints of God But we see that our heauenly father comforteth vs he louingly willeth vs counsaileth vs gladly to leaue the bondage of Aegypt speedely to flye from the filthines of Sodome and with Noah to enter into the arke of our safety euen to the amiable courtes of the Lord to hold our selues by the piller of the trueth euen the Gospell of his Christ and to visit his temple So will he be our God and we shall be his children he will be our father and we shall be his sonnes and daughters whome hee will mightelye protect and defende from the force and erronious course of the multitude And whatsoeuer Sathan Antichrist and their adherets doe deuise or imagine against vs howsoeuer they seeme to feare vs and dismay vs with their multitudes let vs be patient wayting the Lordes leasure for our deliuery Let vs be both carefull and constant in our callinges and euery one from the highst to the lowest the heade and members euery one according to his office and function frame our selues diligentlye to haue cleare heartes and readye handes in the feare and due reuerence of him that hath promised vs ayde to stand not only vpon our own garde but as one body compact of many members stand

wherewith yet such was Gods prouidence with a stone hee killed this huge and mightie monster who vaunting of his owne strength blasphemed the God of heauen in whose myraculous death the power of GOD and his hatred against manns trust and confidence in the strength of flesh and bloud was showed to the comfort of the godly and confusion of the wicked This and such like examples are written for our learning that wee through the assurance of our defence in our Captaine Christ should not feare the force of our boasting aduersaries the strength and hautie courage of the graund captaine of the Romish Philistines who challengeth all men that seeme to take their defence in God glorying and boasting in his manie Countryes stronge and fencible Cityes and manye multitudes of people that are in subiection vnder him Iericho was a mightie and stronge Citye the walles whereof seemed inuincible beeing moste stronglie furnished with manie menne and munition wherein they gloried boasted and sette themselues alofte in their owne conceite as thou●● no power had beene able to ouerthrowe th●● But God who wincketh not at such arrogancie nor suffereth such rebellious people to goe vnpunished neyther their Cities to stande in such contempt of him puffed vp with the pride of their own strength directed Ioshua the Captaine of the Israelites howe and in what manner hee shoulde deale for the ouerthrowe and subuersion thereof And because hee would haue his power to bee seene and his mightie arme to haue the praise and not the strength of Ioshuas armie least hee shoulde haue bragged and boasted as did Pharaoh Nabucadnezer Senacheryb and suche like mightie Princes who attributed the prayse of their successe and victories vnto their owne strength and multitudes hee willed Ioshua to carrie the Arke of the Lorde seauen times about the Citie with the sounde of seauen trumpettes and a great shoute of the armie whereat without more a doe without the shedding of one droppe of bloude of Ioshuas companye the walles of the Citie fell flatte to the grounde Inso much as Ioshua with his armie entered put the people to the sworde and burned the Citie with fire Euen so did he worke for Gydeon and his small companie to the ouerthrowe of the Madianites what a mightie GOD is this whose power is such and so great that hee worketh so farre beyonde all naturall expectation yea against all possibilitie by worldely reason to the confusion of such as rise vp against his Church against his Christ and Christian And therefore although wee see Romish Iericho which consisteth of manye Cities which is the mother of manye daughters although shee tryumph as inuincible although shee sitte as a Queene and saye I shall be no widow neither shall I bee touched with any sorrow Let vs not doubt but the breath of Gods owne mouth shall ouerthrow her The Arke of the Lorde the gospell of his truth beeing carryed in countries rounde about her and the trumpets of Gods messengers sounding the same and the heartye prayses of the armye of Christians beeing shouted vnto the heauens shall bring that to passe which S. Iohn prophesieth namely that the ioyful tidinges of the fal of Romish Iericho and her vtter ruine vnto Ioshuas armye namely to the congregation of the faithfull in Christ. It is fallen it is fallen Babylon that great City the glory of the Romishe queene the pride of Iericho is come to confusion This no doubt by the finger of God shall be brought to passe although they seeme to build their strength neuer so mightely The people about an hundred and thirtie yeares after the floud greatly increased their multitude increasing to an infinite number beganne to be proud and arrogant insomuch that as they deuised the meanes in their owne conceipts to extoll their glorye vnto the heauens and therefore endeuoured to erect a tower the height whereof should reach vnto the skies their enterprise thus begunne they proceeded to perfourme it according to their owne imaginations wherein their pride so increased and their hearts asspired against the God of heauen who beholding the secreats thereof and their weake and rebellious intent in that they coulde not content them-selues to enioye the libertie and commodities of the earth and their liues at his handes but would aspire to make themselues equall with him and as it were his fellow neighbours euen in the cloudes where they pretended to haue their habitations neare vnto his seate of Maiestie in heauen as they imagined quickly cut them short and vsed a speedy confusion of their follye namely confounded their language in suche sort as one coulde not vnderstand the other Surely this example of mans pride and their suddaine confusion by the iudgements of God is worthy to be noted The multitude of these men namelie Nimrod and his companye were great insomuch as if God should haue dealt according to the sence of humaine reason as these men now do in their multitudes what course should God haue taken considering that as before the sloud so now they all ioyned themselues togeather to become rebels against him But as his wisedome is alwayes vnsearcheable and his power infinite and all to bring all thinges to passe without the ayde of man he vsed this onely meane to stop their deuise namely to confounde their language whereby their worke ceased they were scattered and their enterprise came to none effect By this moste worthye example we maye see how God abhorreth those aspiring heartes that couet to clymbe vp into heauen by the tower of their owne deuises What a touchstone is this to trie the glitteringe showe of Nimrod of Rome and his adherents to bee but copper who as we see indeuoureth to erect a tower not of bricke and morter but of their owne merites whereby they will ascende and set themselues euen side by side with Christe himselfe in the kingdome of heauen And I praye what is this but to call Christ downe from heauen to confounde their languages and to shewe them plainelie that their buildinge shall neuer take effect nor bee accomplished Howe is it come alreadye to passe amonge these builders How manye are there that can vnderstande the language of their worke-men Is it not in Latine a language far from the vnderstandinge of the moste For if the builders of this detestable worke shoulde call for the bricke of true worship of GOD in his toong their poore seruitors bringe foorth the stubble of idolatrye the confusion whereof we see in that these builders euen in the iudgementes of GOD haue patched peeced and made a hotchpotch thereof in suche sort as the buylding of that tower which is founded vppon the merites of Christe aboue wherein we must be saued is meerelye neglected and reiected amongest them And therefore it behooueth euerye true christian to come out from among them to forsake their company and not to set to our handes to the