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A95899	Speculum scripturale schismaticorum or, A scripture looking--glasse, most exactly characterizing all sorts of schismaticks: wherein, as, in a looking-glass, face answers face; so, scriptures paint seducers root and race: And, that they are the seedmen of all evil; and, must be shun'd, as serpents, or the Devil.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing V329; Thomason 669.f.14[65]; ESTC R211250	8,268	1

accursed and blasphemous Opinions even many of them denying the Lord Jesus Christ either by a totall apostacie or through want of sincere obedience both in his Deity and in his incarnation yea denying the three glorious Persons in the Trinity and the sacred Scriptures or written Word to be the foundation of our faith to omit many other And do we not see how many are drawn away by them to follow their pernicious wayes that is their pestilent doctrines and by reason of whom and their perverse pathes the wayes of truth are exceedingly evill spoken of and the blessed work of Covenant-Reformation is most slanderously termed by them Persecution and Tyranny and Christs Government is by them called and counted a bloudy arbitrary and Antichristian slavery and how thus they most exactly cry out with wicked Athalia Treason treason Persecution persecution whereas they are the most cruel and crafty traitors and persecutors themselves witness that true Saint indeed Mr. Caughton imprisoned by the Saints of these times a strange paradox in piety The Scripture Looking-Glass VII And the same Apostle goes on and tels us that through covetousnesse they shall with fained words make merchandize of their Disciples and Proselites whose judgment lingereth not and whose damnation slumbreth not but chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse who despise Government and presumptuously speak evill of Dignities and like brute-beasts speak evill of the things which they understand not and shall therefore perish utterly in their own corruption and shall receive the reward of unrighteousnesse Spots they are and blemishes spotting themselves with their own deceivings and seducing others while they feast with you Having eyes full of adultery and that cease not from sin Beguiling unstable souls their hearts being exercised with covetous practices Cursed children Wels without water clouds carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever Speaking great swelling words of vanity and promising liberty to others whenas themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2. 3 10 12 13 14 17 18 19. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face VII And does not the Apostle Peter here also most lively delineate our Sectaries and Independents practices manners and conditions Who indeed through covetousness witnesse their many Lectures and fat collections at their itinerary or rather vagrant preachings by fained and painted words framed to a shew of piety mildnesse and charity craftily endeavour to lay hold on their disciples goods with the ruine of their souls Hastening their own damnation by most seditiously contemning Government and most insolently and presumptuously speaking evil of Dignities Kings Lords and Rulers and therefore are justly left utterly to perish in the corruption of their own minds as foul spots and blemishes of Religion seducing and deceiving those that feast and entertain them Being herein cursed children in that they are as it were empty wels without water barren and fruitlesse in themselves of any true good and without sap or moisture of true soul-saving grace to make others truly gracious and growing Christians yea they are vapouring and vanishing clouds driven to and fro with the fleeting blasts and tempests of their most vain and hereticall mindes for whom the mists and foggs of infernal darknesse is reserved for ever Who use to speak great swelling and swaggering words of vanity and boasting hypocrisie of Saintship and godly partie c. using a lofty and proud flashie stile both in their writing and preaching especially as reverend Mr. Deodate notes most truly in his exposition on this Scripture with high soaring and cloudy notions and speculations to make their hearers admire them though they little or nothing at all understand them and oft times their words being extremely void of truth or of any vertue of Gods holy Spirit to sound edification And thus they also falsly and fallaciously promise liberty to others in suffering and inciting their novice-disciples to commit grosse sins and lustful perpetrations under the vizard of Christian liberty whereas themseles as here the Apostle sayes are most servile slaves and servants of accursed Corruption The Scripture Looking-Glass VIII There are saith the Apostle Jude also certain men crept in unawares who were of old ordained to condemnation ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into lasciviousnesse Filthie Dreamers who despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities Who have gone in the way of Kain and ran greedily after the errour of Balaam for reward and perished in the gain-saying of Corc. Spots they are in your Feasts of Love when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear Clouds they are without water carried about with winds Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead pluck'd up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandering Stars to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration for advantage Mockers who walk after their own ungodly Lusts These are they who separate themselves sensuall and not having the Spirit Jude ver 4 8 12 13 16 18 19. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face VIII See here again impartial unprejudiced Reader how most remarkably the Apostle Jude describes the Independents Anabaptists and all other Schismaticks Sectaries of our times to be Corner-creepers sly stealers into mens houses hearts branding them also with the black mark of ungodly men turning the grace of our God into wantonness and lasciviousness as if Gods word and free grace allowed them in any gross sin under a false wicked pretence of being in Christ as fals-hearted Feak maintains and preachers and therfore the Apostle gives them their doom assuring us that such as these were ordained by Gods eternal decree unto everlasting condemnation And so the Apostle goes on and calls them filthy dreamers or brain-sick men by their new Lights enthusiastick Revelations despising and speaking evil of Government godly Order and obedience to any Authority save onely that which is of their own setting up And truly this is very observable that the Spirit of God sets down this as a principal mark of Seducers Hypocrites in that these Apostles do so often mention their despising Dignities or Dominions Kings Lords Magistrates and Ministers whom they cannot abide because they would keep them within the bounds of godly order and obedience And then the Apostle proceeds to aggravate this sin in them comparing it to the wages of Cain who was the first that wickedly departed from the true Church and of basely covetous Balaam carried into errors by the bait of gain worldly pleasures and imitating Core and his rebellious Companions in rising up against the true Pastors and Governors of the Church of Christ and therefore incurring the like unavoidable perdition that those men justly suffered Yea the Apostle calls them spotted and crafty seducing smel-feasts who abused that

that all make up but one Church one Body one Kingdom The Scripture Looking-Glass IIII. This know also my Brethren sayes the Apostle Paul That in the last dayes perillous times shall come for men shall be Lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents and without naturall affection unthankfull unholy truce-breakers false-accusers incontinent despisers of those that are good headie and high-minded traitours having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such my Brethren turn away for these will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts heap to themselves Teachers having itching ears and turning away from the truth being turned unto fables 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 8 c. 13. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face IV. And are not we my deer Brethren now in England and London fallen into these perllious times and dangerous dayes And are not our Independents and all other Sectaries of these our dayes as here described by the Spirit of God most notorious self-lovers and extreme covetous Are they not most of them most proud boasters of themselves to be Saints and the onely godly Partie Are they not most fearful blasphemers Witness Paul Best John Goodwin Price and Quarterman two of Goodwins disciples with many others Are they not disobedient to Parents and without all natural affection yea even down-right Paricides and Regicides too some of them who upon conceits of pretended Revelations and most false and fallacious impulses of the Spirit have slain their neerest and deerest of bloud unto them as He in Ireland who thus sacrificed his own Son And a Souldier very lately of S. Tho. Fairfax his Army who on the marriage day of his own Sister having given his own natural Father a great blow on the ear upon occasion of a Revelation as he told his Father that he must kil him vehemently endeavoured with his sword drawn to have murthered his Father had he not been most violently restrained and hindered by company that came into the room to rescue his Father at an eminent Gentlemans house in Bow neer London Are they not most unthankful wretches both to God and men for that work of Reformation begun among us and just liberty to serve God from the Prelats Tyranny which ten yeers before that they seemed with us most greedily to desire but now most extremely hate it except onely in their own fantastical way Are they not most abominable Covenant breakers and abusers witness wicked Cham aliàs Cann the Printer and most slanderous false-accusers of our most precious Parliament-members and other eminent Gentlemen in City and Country Are they not many of them most filthily incontinent witness Mr. Gun of Southwark even one of their precious Preachers and others also Are they not most proud despisers of all our best gravest and godliest Ministers whom they most contumeliously call Black-coats and Antichristian Legal Preachers endeavouring to starve them up and so to deprive us of them in denying them competent maintenance Are they not most insolent and high-minded Traitors and Rebels witness the most wicked endeavours of some of them to overthrow our fundamental Laws and to introduce a most accursed Toleration of all licentiousnesse and a meer Chaos and confusion in all things both sacred and civil And are they not notorious Hypocrites having onely an out-side form of Godliness but utterly denying the power and practice of it in their private houses by holy duties with their families professing themselves to be above Ordinances And therefore is it not high time to take heed of and to turn away from such as they are The Scripture Looking-Glass V. And as the same holy Apostle sayes of this sort also are all those that creep into mens houses and lead captive silly women even as Satan the Divel also at the beginning assaulted and surprized Eve the woman and then left her to entice and ensnare Adam her husband Gen 3. 1 2 3. c. So do these men And like James and Jambres those wicked Magicians of Egypt who withstood Moses and Aaron they reject and resist the Truth being men of corrupt mindes concerning the faith And these evill men and Seducers though they go on grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived yet certainly they shall not long proceed for their folly and madnesse breaks forth and is more and more most notoriously made manifest to the world even as the folly and madnesse of those wicked Inchanters and Magicians was 2 Tim. 3. 6 8 9 13. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face V. And do not our Independents and all sorts of Sectaries just the very same thing by their Jesuitical Emissaries T. G. P. N. W. G. S. S. J. G. c. Who at first about four or five yeers ago and so all along since have most boldly and wickedly poysoned the Kingdoms great Fountain the Parliament Members and after them huge Peters Oates Kiffin the Glover Patience the Botcher Gorton the cheater and other such like engendred vermin of Religion who also like Sathan himself and their elder Brethren the Romish Jesuites crept into mens houses and first set upon and assaulted silly women apt to be seduced and aptest to seduce their Husbands children and servants as we see by daily experience And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses and Aaron so do these our Independents and Sectaries oppose and withstand our Magistracy and Ministry rejecting and resisting the Truths of Gods Word being men of very corrupt mindes yea reprobate or abominable to God in respect of their perverse doctrines and unsoundnesse of faith in Christ And like evil men and crafty Seducers they grow worse and worse most of them deceiving and being deceived But certainly they shall not long thus continue for their folly and madnesse breaks forth daily more and more even to their own shame in very many of them and is very manifest to all that are truly wise and religious and whose eyes of their understanding the Lord hath graciously opened The Scripture Looking-Glass VI. The Apostle Peter also tels us of his discovery of false-Prophets or false Apostles that shall come in future Gospel times and who began to appear among the people in his time who did and would privily bring in damnable Heresies and blasphemous Opinious even denying the Lord Christ And that many should and would follow their most pernicious wayes by reason of whom the wayes of Truth would be evil spoken of 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face VI. And are not our Independents Anabaptists Antinomiams and all other Sectaries of these our times most directly those false Prophets and Pseud-apostles here spoken of who privily that is craftily and cunningly under the painted and specious pretences or embroidred cloaks of Toleration liberty and freedom to tender Consciences new-Lights rare Revelations a glorious Church way Saints the godly Partie c. should and would bring in damnable Heresies and most