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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

the foundation of their deuises to come from the wel-spring of wickednes frō him that can dispence and giue tolleration for murthers and al wickednes els whatsoeuer and say further that the wise the learned the mightye and the multitude agree and giue not onelye their consents but their helping hands with money and force to further their enterprises And therefore is their madnes in taking such actions in hande so muche the more to bee tollerated and borne withall naye to be fauoured and accepted Alas poore weake defence a slender excuse were there not two hundred and fiftye Captaines famous men ioyned themselues to Korah Dathan Abiram whose generall consent was neither a sufficient excuse neither a proofe that their rising and rebellion was lawfull But Moses told Korah another tale for sayd he thou and all thy companye are gathered together against the Lorde This agreeth with the word of God to Paule when he went to persecute the christians namely that he persecuted God himselfe And thus we see that although these men arme them-selues with the glorious title of the Catholik church their deuises manifest and plainly betoken that their harts are set against the church against Christ christians And therefore although they outwardly pretend great showes of holines deuout workes of charitie therby win vnto themselues credit in the world glory of their long continuance though their cunning collusions haue caught as in a snare with their inchantments bewitched the greatest part of the world brag of their vnion of their mutuall consent of their mighty adherentes great multitudes that ioyne with them yet seeing they haue forsaken the faith seeing they deny the truth fight against it seeing they seek to resist the passage of the gospel with out which there can appeare nothinge but the shadowes of good thinges seeing they set not forth but vtterly depraue the glory of God and the merits of his Christ. Seeing they goe about and endeuour as we see not onely to resist but to betray and ouerthrow Moses and Aaron We may say truly auere yea cōstātly affirme that they haue a golden vizarde vpon their leaden faces they haue the names but not the effect or fruites of Catholiques They call themselues the Church and are not of the Church Christ commandeth that the light of euerye good christian should so shine before men that they might see the fruites of the true light And is not murther of Princes Sacking of Cities Ouerthrowing of commonweales Nay of their own natiue countryes the fruits of their light Are not these the fruits and works of darknes which bewray their consciences to haue no true light Is this course which now they begun to take they way to make themselues cleane to take away the euill of their works from before the eies of the Lorde Is this course that they take the meane to become holye as our heauenlye father is holy No no but they eat the bread of malice deceipt of liyng slaughter which in their mouths seemeth sweet but the operation therof shall fill euen their bowels with deadly grauell But all ye that are infected polluted with this poyson of their practises callinto your minds for the loue of God the daunger of your estates here in earth where the law throgh the iust iudgement of God condemneth you the diuell deceaueth you and the merciful God leaueth and forsaketh you who al thogh he wil that al mē shalbe saued come to knowledge of the truth he detesteth abhorreth he cannot abide wilful contēners therof Receaue therefore with meeknesse the word of the Lorde which is able to saue your soules For beholde by it we heare the most comfortable promises of our mercifull God by it we may learne the way to his truth and to auoyde the pollicies practised against the same Let vs therfore yeeld with reuerence our eares to heare it our tonges with diligence to read declare it our hearts with ioy vnderstanding to cōsider it And thē may we rightly apply this saying vnto our selues Come vnto me all ye that trauaile and are heauie laden and I shal refresh you Loe deare Christian brethren what greater cōfort can we haue then this If any be burdened in conscience that he hath addicted himself too much to the crooked and by wayes of mans inuentions forsaking the direct rule of the sacred worde and endeuoureth duly to reforme himselfe and to bee clensed then I say here is water offered here is the liquor of life extended in the bason of Gods booke to refresh vs withall Let vs ioyfully receiue it and turne vnto God and verily we shall be saued We haue sufficient warning to flie the company of the enemies of God and Christ and to haue no fellowshippe with their vnfruitefull workes of darkenes let vs I say learne of Peter to saue ourselues from this froward generation so shall we eate the good thinges of the lande namely we shall enioye the thinges necessary for our pilgrimage heere and aboue all shall be fed with the breade tending to the feeding of our soules to life But if we refuse and become rebellious we shall be deuoured with the swoord for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Wherfore I saye let vs girde vp the loynes of our mindes and refer ourselues faithfully vnto our Lord God being sober trusting faithfully perfectlye on the grace that is brought vnto vs by the reuelation of Iesus Christ And let vs shew ourselues obedient not to fashion our selues to the course of our fathers who were led in ignorance neither according to the course of this world which with greedines followeth and imitateth the red Dragon who seketh to deuour the gospell of our Lord and sauiour and with tiranny to persecute euen to the death all the professors thereof But the trueth is great and it shall preuaile Yet haue these men that pretende these mischifes which haue beene so graciouslye by the almighty God reuealed had their onely confidence in the strength of the multitude of their confederates in respect of the great number of them and the little number and small company of the true and constant christians they cry out and saye they haue the truth with them for that so manye and so learned men as holde with them cannot be deceiued neither can so many and so mighty as take part with thē be conquered or resisted These are arguments which they ground vpon naturall reason and therfore doth the worde of God vtterly confound them as by the testimonie of the worde and truth of God shall appeare CHAP. 2. A most comfortable discouery by examples out of the holy Scriptures applyed to our time how daungerous a thing it is to measure our profession according to the mindes of the multitude and how vaine a thing it is to ioyne ourselues

inward zeale the steps of our head our husband master Christ Iesus who as he is pure so hee expecteth perfect sanctitie in all that professe him he can not abide hipocrisie a double hart a dissēbling tong or lips that speake feyned things And therfore what profiteth it vs to haue the name of Christians to haue the name of Protestantes of Catholikes such like glorious titles whereof many in these our daies brag boast namely that they knowe Christ and confesse him only in the outward show whē in deed in our actions inward cogitations we deny him in framing thē according to the world according to the course of the multitude for euery one that saith Lord Lord shal not enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the will of god which is in heauen And againe why call yee mee Lord Lorde sayth he and do not that which I commande you We see then that we discharge not our duties to god in saying we knowe him but in performance of the trueth which we learne of him And therefore as wee in respecte of our profession challenge the name of Christians seeme as it were offended when the messengers and ministers of Christ charge vs out of the worde of God that we degenerate from the perfect conuersation of a true Christian by the loosenesse of our liues and slacke performance of our duties to Christ let vs frame al our affections as becommeth true Christians And let vs not deceyue or slatter our selues with a foolish conceit of being Christians when in deede our conuersation differeth farre from the doctrine of Christ. It behoueth vs to examine our liues not according to fleshly fantasies but according to the truth of gods word which is a glasse whereby we may set al our actions right and in good order iudge betweene trueth and falshoode betweene light and darknesse betweene the Gospell of Christe and the traditions of men Wee haue a good president hereof namely to try and examine our zeale by the example of the men of Thessalonica Berea not in that som of thē persecuted the Apostles but in that as they receiued the worde of God they searched the scriptures for the increase of their knowledge of the truth wherby they might not onely frame their owne liues but directe others not onely in worde but in godly life and conuersation which was the cause also that the disciples were called Christians in Antiochiafirst namely for that they came neere vnto Christ in godlines of life Search the scripturs for they are they which testifie of Christ of his manner of conuersation here in the earth and of his eternall truth the syncere profession whereof maketh a perfect Christian. Then this name of a Christian onely is not due of right vnto him that can onely speake of Christe or that can dispute of his godheade and manheade howe he came into the worlde when he came to what ende he came and such like for so can euen the Diuels doe But as we see wee are Christians in this that as we knowe Christ and professe Christ in worde so should we followe him in life If we haue the spirite of Christ then are we Christians For he that hath the spirite of Christ will conforme himselfe according to the image of Christ. And as Saint Augustine defineth a Christian he is a perfecte Christian which sheweth mercie vnto all men and who is not mooued he that regardeth another mannes greefe as his owne whose table is open and readie for the poore who seemeth contemptible base and of no accompt before men hee that despiseth earthly to winne heauenly thinges who suffereth not the poore to bee oppressed hee that succoureth the needie he that weepeth when others doe weepe shewing himselfe of mercifull affection towardes all men who is weake sayeth Saint Paule and I am not diseased This is a true description of that whereof wee would be accompted professors namely true Christianitie which as we see chiefely consisteth in mercie in loue and charitable affection one towardes another In so much as we see that by the rule of this Christian dutie wee must showe our selues assistaunt to all so farre forth as our habilitie will extend and especially to those that are of the householde of faith we must do to others that which we wold that others should doe vnto vs. But alas howe farre too short come manie of our time to this Christian dutie yea of such as will not onely be termed but which terme thēselues Protestantes and Christians It were too hard and a verie vnmannerly enterprise for me to enter into the discourse of that wherin I know I shall offend many especially froward stubborne and stiffnecked natures who I knowe will bid mee plucke out the beame of mine own eye first and for my own part I thanke them for their good remembrance I trust I stande not to iustifie my selfe but openly condemning my selfe as a wicked wretch iustified yet in faith by the bloude and merites of Christ. But good Christian brethren the dearest thing to satisfie my greatest expectation is patience for my boldnesse And to returne to my purpose to controule in the name of Christ such as will outwardly showe themselues what inwardlye they be not namely Christians for surely great hath beene the tryall of Christians of late dayes And the former pollicie of Constantius for tryall of Christians came farre too short of the meere prouidence of God the yeare past and very likely to continue the yeare to come namely the general dearth of corne and other necessaries for the reliefe of man in which extremity many were the mouths that wanted reliese yea the mouths of good christians which the gluttonous cormorancie of Epicu●es deuoured in excesse nay the trysling toyes the needles and bootles creatures as haukes hoūds other offensiue things in the sight of god hath deuoured more in many mens houses in a weeke thē some of the masters of the same haue giuen to the needy in a month which is a testimonie of colde christianitie the backe and the belly will be constant witnesses against some in the day of the Lorde that their hearts externall professions with the tongue haue beene at discorde namely the excesse of gluttony and pride in apparell will testifie that their actions were not guided by the infallable rule of that true Christianitie Furthermore be there not in the world that can do professe Christ with the mouth resort to his word argue thereof can cunningly dispute thereof that in this miserable estate of the poore oppressed members of Christ see them to want heare thē to mourne lament cry out for relife they will not consider it they will not heare the cry of the poore hauing their barnes full of corne old newe and their bagges full in their chestes of white

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

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

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

with the multitude as the chiefest refuge and meane of our safetie in the time of trouble wherein the perilous resolution of such as intende to holde with the most be it with the truth or against it is plainly proued to be meerely wicked AS touching the glory of the multitude wherupon these wicked men do build the chifest foundation of their profession as a strong argument that they haue and hold the truth and that they are victorious inuincible I thinke there be none so blockish or barbarous so voide of the knowledge of gods word especially such as account themselues christians can not bee so besotted with the pestiferous poyson of Sathans instigations to holde this argument as a sounde reason that eyther their Religion should bee of Christ or that the force of their multitudes of the huge troup of deceiued souls shoulde be such as that there should seeme no possibilitie with the small number of the faithfull Christians to withstand them but that perforce in dispite of Christ Christians they will breake down the hedges of our quiet estate and godly gouernement intrude themselues into the vineyard of God and the inheritance of his sonne Christ Iesus violate his Church and defile his Spouse as they by their rebellious practises haue endeuoured and by their vauntes haue vainely protested Surely yet I thinke there is none hauing any feeling of the grace and mightie power of God that can be so farre carried away with Sathans instigations with Antichrists inchauntmentes or with his wicked ministers perswasions to thinke it But that euery sensible man hauing but the principles of the trueth in his heart and but entring into the rules of the profession of Christ will holde it a weake foundation to build vpon the power the wisedome and direction of the multitude and a meere absurditie to followe the opinions of the most as a meane to attaine vnto the trueth considering that as the Philosopher sayth it is monstrum multorum capitum a monster with many heades and tot capita tot sententiae many men many mindes But the truth hath one head one spring one issue one ende and one meane to leade vs thereunto euen the holy Ghost the spirite of truth the taste feeling knowledge or direction wherof howe many had in the time of Christ When they all with one voyce cryed out and sayde let him be crucified And some of them to prooue their difference in opinions sayde he is a druncarde he is a Diuell hee doeth these and these thinges by the power of Belsubub And of Paule they sayde he was madde others that hee had the spirite of God and Agrippa and Festus found no cause of death in him Wherefore if any will so rashly take partes with the multitude leauing the heade of the truth and come to that spring of errors he taketh Lucifer by the tayle and with him leaueth the blessed estate of the faithfull to fall downe and become a reprobate We may not followe a multitude to do euill neither consent or agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the truth Yet we see howe these men bragge and boast themselues of the multitudes and that their religion is professed generally in most countryes and kingdomes of the worlde and so conclude bonum iustum rectum approbatum est It is good iust right and allowed and why Because the most part holde it so But if this argument holde always true thē was Christ rightly put to death when we knowe that all Christians holde and cannot but confesse the contrarie and that in him there was founde no guile no deceite or sinne or cause of death And yet cryed the multitude out against him that he should be crucified for say they wee haue hearde him speake blasphemy But when they had their desire whē he was executed these busie followes which so mainely cryed out against him when they sawe the graues to open and the vale of the temple to rent and cleaue a sunder when they sawe the clouds of darknes suddenly to ouerwhelme the bright beames of the sunne when they sawe the earth to shake to tremble when they saw such a miraculous alteration of thinges they changed their opinions and altered their cōmon voices saying surely this was a righteous man but then it was too late they could not call againe the innocent bloud which they had shed nor restore the guiltles to life whō they had falsly condemned So surely although many great multituds congregate themselues together linke domesticall forrain power together with the bandes of treacherous conspiracies against the Lorde and against his annointed falsely crying out and saying she is an Heretique and all those that allowe of the present estate of Englande are heretiques whereby they allure the weake to their wicked practises hoping by their deuises to deuour poore Christians and eate them vppe as it were like breade shooting especiallye first of all to the heade hoping that then the members woulde be the sooner cut off which both the Lorde defende But if their wickednesse should which God forbid take effect they should see then the chaunge of the bright beames of peace turned into the clouds of blody warres the light of truth into the darkenes of errors and they themselues feeling the grounds and rootes of their heartes to shake and tremble by the guylt of bloudy consciences insomuch as they would not onely confesse with the multitude shee was a righteous Gouernesse but with Iudas that they haue doone most wickedlie in betraying the innocent bloud and with Cayne like runnagates roue to and fro saying and accusing their offence to be greater then they are able to beare Furthermore they shoulde then generally as some of them haue alreadie particularly finde the falsehoode of their Father of lyes who deceyueth them with his fayre but false promises of pardon of their sinnes and merite in heauen for their execrable and bloudie practises When the Apostle affirmeth the contrarie Namely that Idolaters murderers and such like shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen Then doth this man of sinne greatly deceyue those whom he perswadeth to perseuere in their bloudie intentes and where he perswadeth some vnder the promise of preferment some of rewarde here some nay all vnder collour of deseruing heauen he doth it but to worke his mischiefe in the end to content himself with them to take the due reward of Iudas hire in vtter destruction But forsooth some shall be made Dukes some Earles some of higher some of more inferiour preferments and that none that setteth his helping hand to this infernall action shall goe without some reward They shalbe crowned with Parries perpetuall ignominie with Throgmortons deserued reprooch and with the due desertes of such rebellious rascalles whose ende without the surpassing mercies of Christ against whome they kicke shall