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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22030	A looking glasse for England VVherein those enormities and foule abuses may most euidentlie be seene, which are the destruction and ouerthrow of euery Christian common-wealth. Likewise, the onely meanes howe to preuent such daungers: by imitating the wholsome aduertisements contayned in thys booke. VVhich sometime was the iewell and delight of the right honourable Lorde and father to his countrey, Fraunces Earle of Bedforde, deceassed.; De duodecim abusivis. English.	Lesse, Nicholas.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 84.5; ESTC S118999	17,805	50

of God and the loue of the world cannot dwell together in one hart An apte similitude euen as the eyes of a man cannot behold the heauen aboue and the earth beneath both at once with one looke But let vs search and see whether there be in the world any thing indeede that is to be loued and what is the world which the speech of God forbiddeth vs to loue What we are commanded to loue in the earth We are not commaunded to looue the earth nor the things which come out of the earth but onely our neighbor for whose sake all thinges are made Him thou art commaunded to loue for all other things which doo perrish and fade away cannot goe vppe with vs to heauen But our neighbour is heyre as well as wee of the kingdome which shall neuer fayle and therefore wee must loue together one another hartilie For so much therefore as wée shall not continue alway in the world but shall fayle also with the worlde Wherfore we are commaunded to looue our neighbour we are commaunded not to loue the worlde but our neighbour because yea being on earth he is a part and portion of the heauenlie kingdome although hee be among these lowe Elements which makes him worthy to be loued of all such as are desirers of the heauenlie blisse forsomuch as in the high Country which is the kingdom of heauen he shall be heyre with his bretheren for euer Why the loue of the world is forbid For this cause God doth forbid vs to looue this worlde least hee which so loueth be seperated and made a stranger frō the loue of God That thing then shoulde not be striuen for which a man may not looue because a man bearing the name of Christ must see that he haue also the selfe same or like manners in him that Christ had Who is a Christian man For no man can worthily be called a Christian man except he agree with Christ in maners and good liuing As touching Christ the prophet dooth write of himselfe these words Esay 42.1.2 Beholde the childe whom I haue chosen mine elect my soule is well pleased in him I will send my spirit vpon him He shall not striue he shall not be an outcryer nor extend his voice in the streete Behold Christ dooth not striue or crye out therefore if thou doo couet to be like him in maners striue not least thou appeare to doo nothing but abuse the name of Christ in the Church For God commaundeth them which follow him saying Math. 23.8.9.10 Be not ye called Maisters for there is but one your Maister who is in heauen And call ye not father vpon the earth for ye haue one father which is in heauē For yee are altogether bretheren whom hee commaundeth to make common supplication and prayer after this manner Math. 6.9 O our father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name c. Hée then contendeth and laboureth in vaine to haue a father in earth when hee professeth that both his Country and father is in heauen which Countrey no man can possesse and enioy but hee that refuseth to set all his care on this world as one passing not for it The eyght abuse A poore man proude Cap. 8. TO beholde a poore man proude may worthilie in this place stande for the eyght abuse because although hee haue nothing yet is he puffed vp with an high aspiring minde which thing euen they that are riche men are forbidden to doo Math. 23.12 That they shoulde not be high minded What thing is more foolish then that he who through great pouerty extreame misery is brought low and as it were to the very ground because that in respect of that consideration hee might behaue himselfe lowlie should in this meane estate beare a proud hart against GOD The Angels cast down from heauē for pride For this fault euen they that were created in the high habitacle of heauen were deiected and thrown downe from thence Wherefore then will he be proud and high minded heere on earth as though he were a man of exceeding great power who before al other men shold cary and behaue himselfe both humble and lowly But that the poore people shall not beare their pouertie heauenlie with sorrowfulnes and sadnes of heart let them heare what they shall receiue of God hee saith Math. 5.3 Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heauen For the mercifull Iudge dooth handle all thinges so indifferently that to them to whom he hath not giuen the riches of this worlde he giueth the kingdom of heauen that he may be a rich man in the glorious place who on earthlie things hath not sette his care or delight A christian caueat for poore men Poore men therefore must take héed least while in pouertie neede they passe ouer the pleasure and kingdome of thys world they should through the lacke of wisedome leese also the kingdom of heauen Marke this well and it will returne to thy benefite For although by the order and dispensation of God they doo liue in earthly pouertie yet they may endeuour to bee poore and meeke in spirit For the kingdome of God is not promised to all poore men without exception indifferentlie but to them onelie in whome the humble and lowly meekenes of the hart dooth accompanie the want and lack of outwarde riches Why the poore are called poore in spirit Because an humble poore man is called poore in spirit who whē he is outwardlie poore needie doth not inwardlie extoll himselfe with a proude heart for the lowlines of the mind shal do more to the attaining of the kingdome of heauen then the temporall pouertie lacke a worldlie riches For meeke and lowly men possessing riches may be called poore in spirit whereas those that are proude and yet haue nothing without doubt are dispossessed of the blessing which is promised to the poore in spirit Of bothe these sorts the holy Scripture speaketh on this wise Prouerb 13.7 Some make themselues rich although they haue nothing and some make themselues poore albeit they haue neuer so great riches The rich man then béeing poore in spirit is as a poore man notwithstanding al his riches and the poore man that is proud in hart is as a rich man although hee be naked and poore Hūblenes of the minde is a glorious pouertie It followeth that humblenes of the minde is a noble and glorious pouertie and the proude stubbornnesse of the hart a foolish kinde of riches Therfore poore men must haue in mind what they are and because they cannot obtaine in worldly goods what they wold haue let not their hearts be puffed vppe with pride as though they had all that they cannot haue The ninth abuse A wicked and an vniust King Capit. 9. The office of a King and what his name importeth NOw come we to a capitall abuse