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A95890	A looking-glasse for malignants: or, Gods hand against God-haters. Containing a most terrible yet true relation of the many most fearefull personall examples (in these present times, since the yeere, 1640.) of Gods most evident and immediate wrath against our malevolent malignants. Together with a caveat for cowards and unworthy (either timorous or treacherous) newters. Collected for Gods honour, and the ungodlies horrour, by John Vicars. Imprimatur hic liber. Iohn White.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V317; Thomason E33_18; ESTC R19020	39,491	44

bounds as not to breake out to do that mischiefe unto His which their malignant adversaries most desperately and divellishly intended to have done unto them Malignants are but Gods drudges and scull-boyes to his Church and children Nay wherein they are yet farre more miserable yea most miserable of all God most wisely and wonderfully makes them in this their intended malice and mischiefe to be but as it were the very drudges and scull-boyes of his Church and children and to doe them farre more good than hurt in scouring and refining them from their drosse and filth contracted from the rubbish of the world in this life yea and by their malignant plottings fighting and spighting Reverend and religious Mr. Marshall cursing swearing jesting and jeering at truth and holinesse they shall as a most holy and reverend Minister of the Lord said exceedingly helpe forward promote and advance Gods cause yea more many times than many of the choice friends thereof and yet which I say is the height or rather the depth of their misery when they have thus done Gods worke though they little thought it and never intended it they themselves like the blinde builders of Noahs Arke who were after it drowned in the Deluge shall be so farre from having any part or portion in the comfortable issue prosperity of his cause that they shal die in their sinne and be everlastlingly damned and perish for their paines therein if I say in the interim God in his infinite boundlesse rich mercy gives them not space and grace to repent What an unexpressible sad condition are ye then in O most miserable Malignants if you could but see this your wicked worke and this your wretched wages as aforesaid even with prophane Esau Hebr. 12. 16. 1 King 21. 20. thus to strive and struggle to sell away as 't was said of Ahab that he sold himselfe to worke wickednesse your blessed Birth-right of life and salvation I speake here the pure language of Canaan maugre the false and fl●shie conceits and whimsies of our impious Antinomians those slye and jugling underminers of Christian humiliation for sinne A just objurgation to Antinomians by way of a briefe digression and of all other holy duties under a colour of their either ignorant or perverse wresting and misapplying of Gods eternall decree of salvation and free grace to his children Yea I say of those unjust and injurious scandalizers of our venerable pious and most painfull Pastors falsly terming them Legall Preachers and pressers of performance of holy duties in our owne strength and abilities a most grosse scandall and aspersion audaciously cast on them by these Satans Seeds-men of sedition and division in point of Religion Pardon good Reader this glancing digression of zeale in me and now to go on to struggle I say with prophane Esau to sell your blessed Birth-right of life and salvation for a poore base and beggarly morsell of meat or messe of pottage of worldly pel●e carnall pleasure and pretended peace forsooth which shall all perish in the use of them and prove unto you nothing but meere vani●y and vexation of spirit Cease then I beseech you O most unholy and unhappy Malignants cease I say and that timely too thus to fret and fume to swear and swagger and to shew your selves such palpable and apparent fighters against God such banders and combiners against Christ in his precious and peculiar members whom though you doe in your life and healthy times scorne and contemne The esteeme that Malignants have of Round-heads in the times of their sicknesse and distresses yet in times of sicknesse or extreme straits and heavy pressures and conscience-distresses these are the onely men you fare the better for these are the men I say that you are often enforced even out of Conscience to send for in your sicknesse especially when you thinke 't is a sicknesse to death to pray for you counsell and comfort you yea and ofttimes in health too are constrained to confesse of them 1 Sam. 24. 17. and to say with wicked Saul to holy David Thou art more righteous than I for thou hast rewarded me good whereas I have rewarded thee evill And therefore truly friends in these like cases I may greatly and most justly feare and I beseech you marke well what I now shall say unto you and feare and tremble at it too that most of the Grandees and Cosmopolites of these our abominably back sliding and apostatizing times most of them I say for I beleeve that they doe not all fight against God upon one and the same principle especially our learned knowing Courtiers Marke this O our learned and knowing Malignants Prelates scandalous Priests and intelligent Protestants at large I greatly feare I say that they come as neere to that sinne that terrible and unpardonable sinne against the holy Ghost and are as deeply plunged into it as ever any Apostate before them which sinne if I mistake not is wilfully The sinne against the holy Ghost knowingly maliciously and perseveringly to persecute and prosecute with all spight and bitternesse of spirit the Truth and true Professors thereof eo nomine because it is and they know it is the Truth of God and therefore they cannot abide it because their owne workes being darknesse they love darknesse more than light 2 Thes 2. 10. 11 12. And that there are such to be found the Apostle Paul testifies and their desperate condition too and I make no doubt but some of them have or will bee enforced ere they dye to acknowledge and cry out I have credibly heard that a some of the Kings Cormorants or Cavaliers have in our late wars cryed out Let us be gon for God fights against us as Serjeant-Major-Generall Basset a Royalist who at the dissolution of the siege at Plimouth spake the very words to one of our Commanders in our works at his going away if not true penitence yet in damnable despaire with that accursed Apostate Julian the heathenish Emperour Vicisti Galilae vicisti So these You have overcome us O Puritans and Round heads you have overcome us for Gods judgements have overtaken us in contending against you And therefore I may and must say unto you all who ever you be in this case and persist therein as Simon Peter said to Simon Magnus You are certainly in the gall of bitternesse in thus abusing the Spirit of grace and his peculiar and precious jewels pray therefore O yet pray if peradventure this sinne may be forgiven you which indeed is the ultimum refugium the last and best refuge and hope you have yet most unlikely to helpe you if not serious and seasonable For he that turnes away his eare from hearing the Law that is from loving God and goodnesse his Cause his Saints and Servants even his very prayers are an abomination to the Lord. And then you may with wicked Esau begge the blessing you so

A LOOKING-GLASSE FOR MALIGNANTS OR Gods hand against God-haters CONTAINING A most terrible yet true relation of the many most fearefull personall examples in these present times since the yeere 1640. of Gods most evident and immediate wrath against our malevolent Malignants Together with a Caveat for Cowards and unworthy either timorous or treacherous Newters COLLECTED For Gods honour and the ungodlies horrour BY JOHN VICARS Psalm 120. 3 4. What shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even sharpe Arrowes with hot coales of Iuniper Jerem. 18. 18. Then said they Israels malignants come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah come and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words Imprimatur hic Liber Iohn White LONDON Printed for Iohn Rothwell at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir IOHN WOLLASTONE Knight Lord Major of the renowned City of LONDON AND To the Right Honourable and truly elect Lady the Lady WOLLASTONE his most vertuous and truly pious Consort J. V. most humbly and heartily prayeth all encrease of Honour here and the blessed assurance of Heaven hereafter Right Honourable YOur owne singular and even Connative Candor piety and courtesie to All and many and most immerited favours deepely and duely ingaging Me to both your Honours have induced yea compelled me to be ever most studious of bounden Gratitude I therefore with that honest poore Countrey man of whom I have read who seeing many Princes and Nobles presenting to their Emperour very rich and rare Presents He also to shew his love brought onely his owne Picture painted and holding forth in his hand the figure of a faire and rich Iewell with this Motto over it Et hoc vellem That is And I would give such a Iewell as this is were I able So I I say having no better a present as yet to present to your Honours have most humbly made bold to dedicate to both your Honours together with my devoted selfe this plaine yet usefull Looking-glasse VVhich though it be but of a homely dresse yet will represent to your Honours variety of remarkable objects touching the miserable Malignants and Anti-Parliamentarians of these our times most worthy I beleeve your Honours serious view and favourable acceptance And to whom indeed may I more fitly tender such a tender and fragil piece or utensill as a Looking-Glasse is then to your good Honours whom both I and this whole City yea I may say the whole Kingdome doe know by most happy experience witnesse your good Lordships most pious prudent and vertuous Government of this famous City and witnesse also your good Ladyships Masculine vertues as so many precious Pearles treasured up in a Feminine Cabinet I meane a most heroicall holy Heart together with the constancie and loyalty of both your Honours to God and Goodnesse in the Parliaments Cause and whom therefore I say I know most willing to entertaine and use this my Looking-Glasse Candidâ manu with candid and courteous Acceptation and also most able to patronage and protect it A rapacibus furiosis malignantium unguibus from the uncivill and defiling fingers of any of all our unreasonable malevolent Malignants Goe on therefore my good Lord as most honourably you do guarded and guided by the wisdom and power of Gods holy Spirit and supported by the daily prayers of Gods Saints and Servants to countenance and encourage Goodnesse and to discountenance and keepe under the enemies of Godlinesse Peace and Truth even as your Honours late most worthy Predecessour did to Gods glory and his everlasting honour ever setting before your Honours eyes and having in your blessed Brest that heart-fortifying-promise and admirable incouragement given by God himself to his faithfull servant Josuah Josuah 1. 5 6. As I was with my servant Moses so will I be with thee Heb. 13 5. I will not faile thee nor forsake thee Be strong therefore and of a good courage VVhich that your good Lordship most holily and happily may be is and ever shall be the dayly prayer of Your good Honours most humbly devoted JOHN VICARS To the Reader AS it is too frequently and familiarly knowne benevolent or malevolent Reader whoever thou art that to the hearing of Gods Word there come as well eares of scorne as eares of corne So I make no doubt but this my Looking-Glasse shall meet eyes of enmity and hearts of rancour as it shall of Amicability and Christian Candor However being carelesse of the malignity of the one and most studious of the benignity of the other I here invite thee to the view thereof wherein thou shalt see represented to thine eyes and understanding various serious and seasonable objects fit for them both to contemplate ruminate and feed upon Variety I say of evidences and examples of Gods most just and immediate indignation against and upon the unnaturall malicious and even bestiall Malignants of these times for so sayes the Prophet David Psal 49. 12. That even the most honourable of men wanting heavenly wisdome and understanding are compared to beasts that perish And well were it with them too were they but as bad as beasts and had not immortall soules as some Mad-braines of late have most falsly foolishly and blasphemously gone about to prove and prate of who impiously fret and fight against God and his Cause Together with our silly and sottish Newters and uncomfortable Cowards who timerously or treacherously desert and forsake their God in the Parliaments Cause which unquestionably is Gods By all which sad and serious Examples for as our old Axiome is Examples move more and are more prevalent than Precepts my maine and onely aime is to endeavour by Gods assistance for the Christian love I beare to their soules especially to shew them the errours and evils of their courses and carriages therein and if it be possible to worke and win them to a true and timely retractation for the good of their soules and bodies both here and hereafter But whereas Object it may be our Malignants will here object either cut of incredulity or malignancy or both that all these fearfull examples here alleaged are but Chimaera's and false or fictious Bug-bears to scare children or fools and therefore they the lesse regard them All that I will answer hereunto is this Answ That I professe as in the presence of God I have used all care and diligence to search and be assured of the truth of them all and am able to produce very able and honest testimonies of them besides what I have expressed with the Examples themselves If therefore our unhappy and hood-winkt Malignants through their owne flinty obstinacy or benummed ignorance and incredulity whereby etiamsi persuaseris non persuadebis Though you make things ever so cleare yet they will not be convinced will not suffer these things to worke so kindely on their Consciences as is herein desired and

front or forlorne hope of the rabble of wicked ones that shall be shut out of the New-Jerusalem shall have their part in the like which burnes with fire and brimstone Take heed therefore my brethren as the Authour to the Hebrews adviseth lest there be in any of you an evill heart of unbeliefe Heb. 10. 38. in departing from the living God Luke 9. 62. For certainely saies the spirit of truth in the same Epistle If any man draw backe or has as Christ himselfe testifies put his hand to the Plough of Gods worke and cause and lookes backe is unfit for Heaven nay more Gods soule will take no pleasure in such an one Besides remember this seriously I pray thee that a Newter or Key-cold fellow in Gods cause is a most despicable creature despised both of God and the Devill The miserable condition of Cowards and Newters described being apt to be false and faithlesse to them both and so good for the use of neither of them as not caring whether Gods or the Devils cause faile or prevaile sinke or swim what cares he so he may sit stil and enjoy his base peace and pelfe onely it may be he will give them some seeming good wishes at most and best O let such as these timely take heed by these examples that God meet them not sorely and surely too at last and if thy Neutrality be from wilfull and wicked principles then feare indeed and tremble at thy estate by those examples of Gods hand upon those mischievous and malevolent malignants by death and destruction even in the very acting of their evils If out of meere slavish feare and unworthy cowardise yet feare also by those other examples considering what terrible straits and soule-pinching perplexities it may bring thee unto at the best and presume not though they happily repented and were saved for repentance is a Flower that growes not naturally in our Gardens but is the onely gift of God and he gives it graciously when and to whom he will Therefore I say presume not but feare and whiles thou hast yet space labour for grace even immoveable faithfulnesse courage and perseverance remembring ever who it was that said even truth it selfe He that denies me or is ashamed of me before men I will deny him and be ashamed of him before my Father which is in Heaven And thus I have done with these But now in the last place I desire also to speake a word or two unto our most unhappy miserable and marble-hearted malignants whom from my soule I pity and pray for as my brethren in the flesh implacable and inveterate haters of Holinesse and of a pure Reformation who would faine under a beggarly pretext of a lazy licentious Peace forsooth still be more and more setled on the Lees of their old infant halfe Reformation comfortable then I confesse in blessed Queen Elizabeths daies if we reflect on the wofull Marian daies before even meere formall Protestantisme at large which in effect is but down-right Atheisme or at best a back doore to Papistry as we have used the matter for so many yeeres past The upholding and maintaining whereof I take for granted to be the ground of the great quarrell betweene them and Gods people now adaies What will ye then or what can ye say for your selves poore mole-ey'd and miserable men after the serious fight and rumination on all these forelaid remarkable evidences and most luculent and conspicuous demonstrations of Gods immediate hand both against and upon you and after all these notable Convictions and Confessions of the horrible and God-hated evill of your cause and cases what I say will you now answer for your selves why you may not most properly and pertinently be called and counted wilfull and obstinate fighters against God and his just cause See then I beseech you but if you will not timely see you shall as I said before see at last and be ashamed and smart too and be timely and wisely perswaded as the truth is that though you will not acknowledge it you your malignant workes plainely shew it and especially the Spirit of God the onely true searcher and discoverer of the hearts and reines of all hath most clearely declared to us in the second Psalme both your worke and your wages your wicked cause and your wretched cases viz. That all the banding and binding of the heads and hearts together of Gebal Ammon and Amaleck c. of sottish formall Protestants What King our formall Protestants choose and refuse Prelates and Papists with all that Iesuiticall rabble is mainely and onely this We will not have this man King Iesus but the tyrannicall and diabolicall usurpers base lusts soul-slaying corruptions sinne and Satan to reigne over us and therefore let us say they breake his bands in sunder that is let us violate and vitiate his holy and wholsome Lawes and Commandements let us east away his cords from us that is let us contemne and despise his soul-saving counsels free grace and love and all his heart-establishing precious promises but all this while they blindly and blockishly forget or will not see and perceive as the same Spirit and fountaine of Truth tels them that the Lord now resolves to set his onely begotten Sonne Christ Iesus as Lord and King to ●u●e and raigne over the tops of all the Mountaines of the earth upon Sion his most holy Hill and that he therefore even the Lord the great Iehovah sits in Heaven sees and smiles at and laughs to scorne all their combinations and accursed confederacies all their freting and fuming beating and breaking of their braines and hearts too When Malignants cause shal overcome and telling them to their teeth and shewing them maugre their brazen browes that all the while they doe but imagine a vaine thing which they never can they never shall bring to passe For of this let them be most sure that till they can make it appeare or probable that Satan is stronger and wiser than the Almighty that Antichrist is able to overcome the Lord Christ to whom the Father hath committed all power in Heaven and Earth I shall never believe that they or their cause shall prevaile For I say God hath put into Christs hands an Iron Mace not onely to bruise but to breake in pieces like so many pot-sheards their earthen and stony hearts though ever so seemingly stout and stubborne as partly and pretty-well one would thinke I have here in these forecited examples made most plaine and conspicuous but especially as the Lord God himselfe in all ages and times hath made most manifest to the whole World even from the beginning of it to our present times Psal 76. 10. nay not onely so but that the Lord hath most admirably made and that with a witnesse too the wrath of man to turne to his own high glory and praise yea and so restrained and constrained the remainder thereof to keepe within limits and