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A10711	My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 20991.7; ESTC S115904	57,436	81

sensualitie did neuer so much abound he is blinde that seeth not this and too malitious that will not acknowledge it The sinnes of this age are become like old festered soores that are not to bee cured but with biting corosiues we can not therefore too bitterly reprehend them We are become like naturall beasts that do bring all things to triall but by the senses but if we could carry them to the inquisition of the soule we should finde it a fearefull iudgement of God for men to be giuen vp so much to their owne lusts to haue no sense nor feeling of their sinne he that hath this hardnesse of heart that he neither feeleth his owne sinne nor will not be told of it by another he is no more of the race of Adam who was ashamed of himselfe but of Pharao who hardened his owne heart and whose heart God did harden If the head doth but a little ake our vrins must knocke at the Phisitions doore and alas how inquisitiue we be about the state of our bodies but let our consciences cry out and exclaime how they list our sickly famished soules are neuer respected we are so farre in loue with our sinnes that wee care not for the losing of our soules Are these the works that faith affordeth is this the life that God requireth we goe to Church indeed and we say to seeke the Lord but we do not seeke him as if we ment to finde him wee seeke him not with humble and penitent heart but with proud and presumptuous spirits decking and pranking vp our selues with those gawdy and vngodly attires as are more liker to poison our praiers then to profit our soules better fitting indeed for a Brothell house then for the house of God We goe to Church rather to show our pompe and our pride then with any zealous intent to serue our God as we should do We goe to the Church as Iudas went to the Supper of the Lord we returne home in a worse case then when we first went thither With what faces can we make show to professe the Gospel when we be so giuen vp to that monstrous pride that we rather desire to follow our owne voluptuous pleasures then to serue God the world doth see it our consciences doth witnesse it neither can we denie it They will make show by their speeches as if they could not indure that God should be dishonoured but looke vpon their actions their pride their vanity their drunkennesse their excesse and they doe shew them plainly what they are and he that should iudge thē by the rules of holy scriptures might boldly pronounce them to be farre from euerlasting life our Sauiour Christ hath confidently avowed The vnrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of heauen and the Apostle 1. Cor. 6. Be not deceiued neither fornicator neither adulterer nor drunkard nor idolater shall not inherit the kingdome of God Let them flatter themselues therefore how they list they are in a dangerous plight we cannot be too plaine to put them from that vaine hope that thus deludeth them that will euery day pollute themselues with these abhominations yet will trust or hope for saluation they thinke it time soone ynough to repent when their climacterical yeare is past then if they haue but time to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs and for their executors to giue penny dole when they bee dead it wil serue for a quietus est for all their sins forepassed they may perhaps sometime dreame of a dying time and it is but a dreame for being not throughly resolued that this time draweth euery day neerer then other they neuer prepare themselues against the time but are many times taken suddenly in the fulnesse of their filthinesse and in the very prime when they be acting of the abhominations I haue little hope therefore to reforme those by my writing whom the thundring voyce of Gods word pronounced euery day by the Preacher can neither conforme nor any thing at all terrifye I know I shall rather procure hatred for speaking truth then win loue for wishing well but I little feare the Adulterat censure of a senceles multitude the wicked are like an Ocean that cannot rest from raging and a madnesse for him that will run amongst thornes and thinke scorne to be prickt let them then rage raile as they list he that is throughly settled and composed in himselfe moues in so high an Orbe and at so far a distant from the malicious and ill disposed that their vnsauoury belchings can neuer annoy him It sufficeth me that I maske in the true simplicities of a loyall honesty my conscience bearing me witnes I haue spoken those truths that I am in nothing more agrieued then in that they are too true FINIS What one applies to vice another may conuert to vertue Caligula vsed to looke in a glasse The nicitie of yong men in this age Looking glasses flattering Some make defects where none are The nature of this Glasse The loftinesse of sinnes Men are vnwilling to heare their faults No speaking against sinnes Augustus thought it necessary for men to finde fault Pasquils piller why prohibibited Sin growne malipert The fearefull condition of the time Angry fault sinders VVhat they be that are angry A dangerous time The holy workes of Papists The Diuell much bound to the Pope Vice deriding vice A dangerous sickenesse VVorke for the Diuell Pitifull spectacles Religious in show Religion but made a staale VVe must exhort one another The securitie of the time The effects of sinnes The sinnes of all nations brought into England The wantonnesse of sinne in this age Sinne a knowne Strumpet become a Lady The Lady New-fashions a Strumpet a Bawde and a VVitch Sinne setteth a worke all sorts of Tradesmen A godly admonition to Ladies and Gentlewomen VVomen more excellent by nature then men I speake this but to those women that be wise doe feare God More then would serue ●o good women that feared God VVandring Eyes I hope al this will offend no women that are good How women should vse their glasses Monstrous fashions euery day hatched vp The genealogy of sinne Couetousnes the parent of many sinnes The varieties of Iniquities Sinne thinkes scorne to be reprooued Three shrewd witnesses The glory pride The effects of pride A happie age Strange inuented vanities The diuels Ingeny Credible and true though strange to be beleeued VVe marre that fashion that God hath made to follow our owne A most ridiculous folly A precept from God neglected The little difference that is vsed between men and women in their apparell The new found out folly of taking tobacco Experience much better then Master Doctors opinion Tobacco vsed but to drawe dowue drinke The loathsomnesse of Tobacco The Tobacconist and the Drunkard fit companions Tobacco sophisticated A pitious expence The inormities that be drawne in by Tobacco Of couetousnesse Bribery in great estimation Briberie disguised Many sinnes boulstered out by

bee a corrosiue to his Conscience still world without end But this worldly wealth I see is but a tickle commoditie for he that hath most he hath notynough neither to keepe his head from aking nor his conscience from despairing He is onely to be accounted rich that possesseth what he hath gotten iustly and vseth what he possesseth honestly but for the vngodly they may well be reputed wealthy but neuer rich There cannot bee a more excellent Touch-stone whereby to discouer the dispositions of men then is the superfluitie of wealth and the extreamitie of want the spring tide of prosperitie and the low ebbe of aduersitie for although the mattess of themselues are indifferent yet the mannaging of them is it that giueth light Prosperitie pampereth vs vp in pleasure it maketh vs to forget God and to repose our greatest confidence in the vanities of the world Aduersitie maketh vs contemptible in the Eye of the world it is the meanes whereby we are taught to know our selues and to draw vs to God Prosperitie so swelleth vs in pride that wee forgette our selues it so blindeth our vnderstanding that vvee are not able to discerne a friend from a flatterer nor to iudge whether those that doe favvne vpon vs bee more in loue with our selues or with our fortunes Aduersitie maketh vs humble it cleereth the vnderstanding and giueth vs Eyes to discerne betweene Friendship and Flatterie and to make assured triall betweene a Friend and a Foe Aduersitie may bee both Iudge and Iurie VVhat haue I said may Aduersitie iudge betweene a friend and a foe I neuer heard that pouerty was cloied with many friende and aduersitie if he once begins to want shall neuer want a foe they will say a friend is tried in time of need but I say that neede is it that makes a friend a foe he is a foole that wanteth friends and if hee wants not wealth But he that hath pouertie to cast vp his accounts and is become Needes Embassador to beg or to borrow if he finde a friend to supply his wants I say such a friend is more precious more rare to be found then Platos Common wealth Moores Eutopia Ciceroes orator or Baldesers Courtier he that is a friend to all can be friend to none but it is nothing so smarting to be called a Niggard or to be reputed for a Miser as to haue it said He is euery mans friend but his owne It were too great a presumption in me now to meddle with Diuinitie the dignitie of the subiect may suffice for where the obiect is God the ground worke is infallible there needs no further demonstration Diuinitie is a heauenly Law sealed by God the lawgiuer written and set downe by the finger of God and deliuered by those that were inspired by his holy spirit It hath likewise pleased God from the beginning to raise vp Patriarkes and Prophets to teach and gouerne his people and after in the kingdome of our Sauiour he ordained the ministery of the Gospell appointing it perpetuall to the end of the world and hath further taught vs to pray that Labourers might be thrust into the Haruest Shall I then speake of the Diuine that is the Steward of God appointed to dispose his misteries that is the Embassadors of glad and joyfull tidings that doth bring vnto vs the word of our saluation that is the light to shine before vs in all godly example of Loue of Charity of Humility of Temperance of Chastity of Sobriety of integrity of life of honest conuersation and therefore worthy of double honour I thinke of my conscience our English Clergy at this present houre are as compleat in learning in liuing in doctrine in wisedome and in all manner of godly knowledg as although in some other parts in Christendom perhaps there may be some found to second them yet none to disproue or exceed them But as amongst the twelue Disciples there was a ludas so amongst this honourable function there creepes in now and then a false Disciple that knowes how to bait his booke with grauity till he hath caught a Benefyce then the Surples must serue to couer a most vngodly carcase he that should set vp a light for other men to follow his Lampe doth burne so dimme that he that were not well sighted of himselfe might sooner stumble then hit the right tract Another intruder there is Parson please-time by name that being vnbeneficed will therefore become a Chaplaine to some man of worth and worthines he will sometimes step vp into the Pulpit and he will preach against sin but it shall be done with halfe a lip he dares not presse it till it smarts he knowes it is no time of yeare to be too vehement against all sorts of sinnes for offending those that he would more willingly please Where shall we finde another Nathan that dares tell his master to his face Thou art the man 2. Sam. 12. Thou art the man that hast sinned in Pride thou art the man that hast sinned in Drunkennesse in Adultery in Blasphemy thou art the man that hast racked vp thy rents that hast oppressed thy tenants that hast wronged thy poore neighbours no Parson please-time knoweth well ynough this is not the ready way to get a fat Benefice To speake now in generall and to speake according to a truth the Pulpits in England and in Ireland both were neuer better supplied with a more reuerent and a more learned Ministry then at this present for their sakes therfore that be good I will speake no more of those few that be ill I shall not neede to speake of Philosophy the study of wisedome is now out of season and the natural part of Philosophy but sheweth vs what we haue and the morall how to vse rightly what is our own a burthē too heauy for euery mans head to carry I will leaue it and speake a little of Souldiours or at the least of such as in these daies would faine be taken for souldiers and do march some of them vnder the title of Captaines that neuer spread Ensigne of their owne before an enemy nor neuer saw enemy march in the field yet he will relate of warres of skirmishes and incounters as brefly as if he had bin an eye-witnes vvhen he hath but pilferd them from report or perhaps stolnethem from some new printed ballade and he that hath but seene the siege of Troy pictured forth in a painted cloath will speake of sallies of assaults of incounters of retraites of palizados of rauelins of parapites all his speeches shall be nothing else but powder and shot He will spend a whole after noone in relating his own valours and this he doth to preuent quarrels because he loues not euery day to fight he beares downe strangers with the story of his own actions wil attribute the honour of a victory to his

beene told me that I haue already incurred the displeasure of a great number for some lines by me formerly published inueighing against pride against drunkennesse against adulterie but especially for writing against popery But those that doth taxe and torture me with their tongues they are not any persons of any great account they are but drunkards adulterers and other vicious liuers the most of them indeed poore ignorant papists whom I do rather pittie than any waies despite but as the Philosopher that suspected the vprightnesse of his owne carriage when he heard himselfe to be commended by a man that was noted to be of a loose and a lewd conuersation so vnderstanding what they be that doth thus detect and depraue me I doe hold my selfe to be better graced by their discommendations than if they would set open their throates to publish forth my praises For amongst all the slaues of imperfections the Lyar and the Slanderer doth least of all offend me because I know that a thousand I mputations iniuriously published by a thousand detracting slanderers are not halfe so grieuous to a man of wisedome and iudgement as one matter of truth avowed by him that is of honest life and reputation But is not this a fearefull time when iniquitie doth so reigne and rage that the wretches of the world would still wallow in their wickednesse without impeachment or contradiction but especially the Papists that are themselues so busie and so repugnant to the lawes both of God and the ' Prince first the Pope with his Bulles with his Indulgences with his Pardons with his Dispensations with his Absolutions with his Priests with his Iesuites with his Ministers of all sorts and of all professions that are still conspiring that are still practising with poisons with pistoles with stabbing knifes with Gunpowder traines that are still repugning that are still peruerting that are still seducing and drawing the hearts of the people from that dutie and obedience they doe owe to their soueraignes nay that doth draw so many poore soules to destruction for although all sorts of sinnes did neuer so much abound as they doe at this houre yet of my conscience the Pope himselfe doth send more Christian soules to the Diuell and Hell is more beholding to the Popes Holinesse alone then to all the rest of those ougly Monsters that are called by the name of the seauen deadly sinnes But what sinner so intemperate but will himselfe confesse in generall that all sorts of sinnes were neuer more inordinate and that wickednesse and abhomination were neuer more apparant and I might say againe neuer les punished The Adulterer will cry phough at the lothsome sinne of Drunkennesse the Blasphemer will sweare the vsurer is a most damned creature the Extortioner will laugh at pride and make himselfe merry with the Folly of new fashions Thus euery vicious liuer can one deride an other but they cannot indure to heare themselues detected and they will laugh at the very same imperfections in an other that they cannot see in themselues neither will they beleeue any other that should informe them of them But I tell thee thou man or woman whatsoeuer thou be that disdainest to heare thy wickednesse reproued thou art fallen into temptation and thou art in danger of a iudgement he that is fallen into that Lethargie of sinne that he neither feeleth himselfe nor will indure to be told of it is in a dangerous plight he is past recouery There is no sickenesse so dangerous as that which is least felt and as he that feeleth not his sicknesse neuer seeketh the Phisitian so he that feeleth not his sinne neuer careth for repentance and he that hath no remorse to repent can neuer be forgiuen for how should Christ forgiue him his sinnes that will neuer acknowledge them but if the sins of this age doth not make worke for repentance they will make a great deale of businesse for the Diuell Forbeare then thou captious Slaue of sinne to complaine against those that doe complaine against thee when we cannot turne our eyes on neither side but we shall see some rouing with boldnesse some rauing with madnesse some reeling with drunkennesse some rioting in wantonnesse some cursing with bitternes They haue made a sacrifice of their soules to the Diuell they neither feare nor reuerence God but esteeme all godlinesse as a mockery they do but play with religion and do but deride at Diuinity it selfe all will censure none will amend yet many will cry out the daies are euill when they themselues do helpe to make them worse and worse If we haue a little verball deuotion be sure it is mixt with actuall abhomination But they will say it only belongeth to the preacher to reprooue sinnes but not fit for euery particular person to meddle with We cannot weare a garment in the new fashion saies one we cannot drinke a pot with a good fellow saies another we cannot fortifie our words with the credit of an oath saies a third but euery Foole will be shooting of his bolt euery Criticke companion will be girding at vs busiyng himselfe with that which becomes him not to meddle with It is truth there are many will goe to Church they will not misse a Sermon they haue their Bookes carried after them they are very attentiue they turne ouer leaues they consent to the preacher they say his doctrine is good they pretend great loue to the truth they make many signes and showes of zeale but being once returned to their owne homes what reformation or amendment of life do they not liue still as if Heauen and Hell were but the Fictions of Fooles and that the threatnings denounced by the preacher against sin were but dreames and old wiues tales The prophesies pronouncing the punishment of sin they are esteemed but as Cassandrias Ryddles they are not regarded And what is it but the vnbeleefe of that doctrine that the Prophets the Apostles and that Christ himselfe haue deliuered that thus armeth the wicked with boldnesse to sinne The word of God is not regarded and if sometimes they doe take the Maske of religion it is but when pietie becomes their aduantage vertue may now and then be set forth to the show but it is but as a Staale to draw into the Net of villany The preachers of the word which are the Fishers of Soules they fish but now introubled waters they may fish perhaps and catch a Frog or peraduenture light vpon a Cuttell that will vent forth yncke but if their Nets doe sometimes inclose yet they are seldome seene to hold a Fish that is great mightie he that seeth this can not sigh is not a witnesse but an agent and he that can see this without compassion is like a Nero that can sit and sing whilst he sees Rome a burning The Apostle willeth vs to exhort one an other and not for once and so away but