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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

performe it Wherefore let vs in a stedfaste hope holde faste by the promises of our good God who hath made vs and assured vs of his helpe with promise that our enemies shall not preuaile but will make them to stumble and fall and will with ioy rid vs out of their handes he wil not suffer the cruelty of our enemies further to touch vs then shall make to his owne glory to our comforte their confusion and our saluation Wherefore I say let vs not accompt our selus weake let vs not carry dastardlike minds or be faint hearted as for feare of these shadowes of euils to fal from the truth Let not the multitude of the professed enemies draw vs into the gulph of their wilfull rebellion For assuredly god will make vs more strong in our fewe true and vnfeyned Christians then the multitudes of their counterfait catholikes Hee hath reuealed his trueth vnto vs moste plainlye wherein as in a glasse wee may beholde their falsehood and consider and se what his mighty hand hath done for our faithfull fathers of olde how he deliuered them from their enemies from the huge multitudes of their aduersaries and howe hee draue backe their enemies discomfited thē And now euen in these dayes blessed be his name therfore he hath wonderfullie reuealed manie mischiefes which these men haue imagined so that their wished purposes God hath otherwise disposed to our safetie and their shame to our comfort and their confusion to the assurance of our continuall protection by his mercie and their perdition by his iustice Wherby he sheweth foorth as in a booke before our eyes that hee is readye to take part with vs and that he is of power and readines to helpe vs in all extremities if we yeelde him due praises and acknowledge the safety of our cities and all other blessinges to come from him and continue constant professours of his truth vnto the ende For he that continueth vnto the ende shall be saued He hath hetherto preserued vs so that the sunne of persecution hath not burnt vs by daye nor the moone by night as it hath beene practised but haue freely inioyed the benefite of the sunne light of the Gospell and due course of temporal gouernment to the vnspeakable comfort of all beleeuers and terrour of all our aduersaries And as Agrippa sayd vnto Paule the continuance of our quiet and peace and the due course of gouernement in our lande hath made euen the Turke to saye these thinges doe almost mooue me to become a christian Yet as the multitude ceased not to hunt after the lyfe of innocent Paule but persecuted him more and more So must euery good and faithful christian thinke that although our estate is very admirable euen vnto the enemyes of the truth yet shall Sathan rayse vp great troubles against the professours thereof for great are the troubles that the righteous must suffer but the Lorde deliuereth them out of all And the arrowes which these rebellious confederates endeuour to shoote at the true of heart shall returne vnto their owne faces and to their owne destruction They are mpudent stiffe hearted they are proud and arrogant yea they are shrowded with the cloake of counterfeit holines to worke their cursed conspiracies And as the Prophet Ezechiel sayth they are a rebellious company who will not heare they will not perceiue they will not vnderstande their errours and euill wayes that they might retourne to God seeke peace and ensue it But behold the comfortable wordes of the same Prophet feare not sayth he feare not nor be afrayd of their wordes be not dismayed at their great bragges although rebels and thornes be amongest you and although yee remaine among Scorpions let vs not therefore feare the Lorde himselfe hath sayd feare nor my little flocke for I am with you and will be vnto the worldes ende For behold I haue made thee a defenced Citye and an yron piller and walles of brasse againste the multitude and force of thine enimies who although they rise vp against thee yet shall they not preuaile For I am with thee to deliuer thee as I was with Moses saith he so I will be with thee I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee So that we may boldlye saye the Lorde is our helper we will not feare what man can do vnto vs. Therefore let vs not feare Ieroboam of Rome who hath stretched out his handes euen his multitudes to laye violence vpon our most gratious Queene and vpon our countrye For the Lorde we see hath dried them vp so that he cannot pluck them in again the iustice of God we see his name bee praised therfore hath cut them short so that they could not preuaile as they deuised the Lorde vncouer them all and giue them with speed their due deserts But although they cannot all be found out as yet they shall surely perish in their owne imaginations they shal melt away as wax at the fier And although they saye we haue strength we haue power will preuaile for our multitudes are great and who can withstand our forces Alas who is it but concludeth that these arrogant speaches haue alwayes proceeded frō the mouthes of them that knewe not God From the mouths of such as stood vpon their own strengthes as if they had beene Gods As the king of Babilon the king of Tyrus and now the Romish Antichrist and his adherents But as these braggers and boasters haue come continuallye to vtter confusion so we doubt not but the breath of his mouth who hath blowne awaye their pride so that it is now remembred to their vtter shame and reproch and as a by-word to all posterities so shall these proude aspiring mindes fall before the humble in Christ. For saith he I will throw down the proud exalt the humble and meeke And so long as that cōforter which was promised euen the holy spirite of God doth testifye in our harts that we yeeld not vnto these their diuelish practises which tend only to the sheding of the bloud of innocents which the word of God manifesteth to be meerely against the truth we may truly say with Dauid we haue hated the assembly of the wicked and haue not entered into confederacie of such as haue conspired againste Christ his spouse And so like true subiects vnto our prince and obedient seruauntes vnto our God we may wash our hands in innocency and serue the Lord with pure affection ioyne with the godly pure in hart to offer the sacrifice of praise vnto the Lorde for his wondrous workes done for vs euen in the dayes of greatest daungers But our aduersaries say that what they do it proceedeth onely of zeale they beare vnto the Catholike religion because they will not seme to be singuler or as men taking these thinges in hand practising it of their owne heades they ascribe

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

whome the mighty hand of the God whome he serued sufficientlye protected shutting the Lions mouthes so that they could not hurt him But when those were cast into the den that conspired his death they were rent in peeces ere they came to the ground of the den This Daniell was likewise hardlye beset with manye enemies for that he in zeale of Gods truth reprehended Cyrus king of Persia for permitting and committing suche idolatrye vnto a filthy monster Bell the idoll of whome such was the opinion of the king and the people that they worshipped it as God the whole multitude fell downe before it But Daniell resisting them to their faces sayd this that yee worship is an idoll and no God and when the kinge hearde that he seemed wroth and to maintaine this Dragon to be a God he framed his argument saying doest thou thinke it to bee no God beholde he eateth and drinketh and therefore doest thou speake blasphemie against our God he eateth an hundred gallons of fine flowre and forty sheepe and drinketh sixe great pots of wine euery day here was a gluttonous God But beholde the poore idoll was slandered and deceiued for the priests their wiues and children deuoured all this prouision secreatlye These were like vnto our late abbey lubbers who deuoured that in loiteringe lasines which the painfull labourers should liue by But poore Daniell beeing sharply reprooued not onely at the handes of the king but threatned by the multitude not fearing their force hauing his assured confidence in the help of the liuing God and seeking to maintaine his glorye and deface superstition idolatrye vndertooke the destruction of this false God without swoord or staffe which he by his power whose hande is alwayes ready to assist his seruaunts and to confound his aduersaries presently performed and brake it all in peeces confounded it and shewed it in it likenes namely to be a false and counterfeyt image and in deed no God Whereat the whole multitude of the Babylonians raged not onely against Daniell but also against the king himselfe for that hee permitted Daniell to take this enterprise in hand The king being timorous and more fearing the force of the multitude then seeking the glory of the liuing God deliuered poore Daniell into their handes who threw him violentlye into the Lions den to be deuoured But such was the omnipotent power of God ouer these greedy and rauenous beastes which Daniels aduersaries of purpose kept hungry and without meat to make their stomaches so much the more greedy of the bloud of this seruant of the true GOD who in suche sort stopped their mouthes that they hurt not Daniell at all What a most louing God what a mighty and merciful iudge of our distresse doth he shew himselfe for this is also written for our learning to shew that he neuer saileth the faythfull but helpeth them in due time of need And that we should not fear the great and mighty multitudes of Romish Babylonians that endeuor to bring vs into the den of their deuouring Lions their spanish inquisition and such like deepe deuoring gulphes that they haue deuised to ouerthrow if they coulde euery true Daniell by persecutions torturs and the feare of death Now for asmuch as we haue seene the mighty workes of the Lorde in great aboundance towards the deliuery of those that put their vnfeyned confidence in his protection vsinge sometymes worldly meanes sometimes his power against worldly meanes and sometimes without worldly meanes to allure his people in their distres to come vnto him for their encouragement hath made waies for their safety when naturall reason coulde not deuise or imagine the meane to escape and hath by few of his seruants ouerthrown vanquished great multitudes of his aduersaries pulled downe the mighty by the hand of the weak and exalted the weake against the expectation of the mightye Let vs therefore duely applye all these his mighty workes to our instruction according vnto the time set them before our eles as a mirror or glasse to see the estate of the enimies of God their slippery standings and weake holds and the sure refuge the buckler which the righteous haue in the mighty hand of God The christiās we see are inuironed with manye perillous snares of the enimies of God their state in naturall reason standeth dangerous but the Lord deliuereth them out of all And therfore let vs assure our selues of the ayde of him that hath not as we see failed those that truly and constantly professed his name And as he hath beene neare vnto them so will he be vnto vs if with pure heartes and constaunt mindes we perseuer and continue not as hypocrites neither as suche as beare the name onelye of Christians but very christians not in name so much but that our conuersations may bee aunswerable therunto to the vttermost to the praises of God and our saluation in Christ. CHAP. 3. A comfortable conclusion to stirre vp such as couet to be called Christians to bee inwardly the same that they doe outwardly professe to be considering that it is not the name but the pure life in Christe that maketh a Christian. THE bishop of Rome and his adherentes doe perswade all men to ioyne with them in the Religion whiche they holde Catholique which the holy Ghost reprooueth and sheweth it to be meere idolatry and altogether repugnant against the truth They say and affirme it to be true pure and the sounde religion the way that leadeth vnto Christe and saluation in him But the trueth findeth that the foundation thereof is layde vppon traditions and inuentions and not vpon the rocke Christe Iesus frō whose example whoso dissenteth cannot though in name yet not in deed become a perfect Christian or true catholike whatsoeuer great shewes of deuotion workes of charitie abstinence prayers or other outwarde ceremonies these fayned and false foxes these hidden and cloaked Catholiques can or do glory of although they could deriue the same from the beginning of the worlde from the wise from the studious and learned from the mighty or greatest multitudes of the whole worlde and from a generall president For the truth whereupon the conuersation of euerye Christian is to bee grounded is setled in the heart of none by the power the will the wisedome or inuentions of man neither can it bee increased or bettered by the pollicie of anie nor sufficientlye protected or mainteined by the authoritie of princes but where first the spirit of GOD hath framed the foundation By the meere workinge whereof it is apprehended followed imbraced and duelye mainteined and by it the spirite of errour and falshood and counterfeyt christianitie is reuealed controuled suppressed and confounded and so consequentlye the perfect trueth confirmed and allowed Besides which truth who so endeuoureth to establishe any doctrine carry it neuer so fayre and glorious a shewe of good intent is a

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