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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

indeavoured yet then I am confidently perswaded by Gods gracious assistance they may produce this threefold issue and effect 1. First they may be a meanes to confirme and strengthen the faithfull and fast friends of the Parliament in their godly and well-grounded resolution and Christian courage to persevere therein 2. Secondly to reduce and reforme some at least of the more moderate tender and fearfull-spirited ones 3. And thirdly they must needs serve for the greater condemnation of our desperate Malignants and to leave them thereby utterly inexcusable if still they persist in their perverse and froward obduracie But what ever be the issue Liberari egomet animam meam I have so far discharged my duty and will yet farther unfainedly pray that the Lord may thereby get some glory though by so weake and unworthy an instrument as is Thine in the Lord JOHN VICARS A LOOKING-GLASSE FOR MALIGNANTS THat there hath been in all ages from the beginning of the World A naturall Antipathy in the wicked against the godly even ever since that grand enmity which God put between the Womans and the Serpents seed a naturall Antipathie and inveterate malignity in the wicked of the World against the godly is undeniable and most cleare both in sacred prophane and morall Histories And that this connative malignity in them hath in all places and times broken out into most deadly feud and pernicious Persecutions both by Hand and Tongue especially is as cleare and conspicuously apparent to all that have their eyes in their heads and will see or understanding in their hearts and not be wilfully blind and obstinately hard-hearted Gods hand against Truth-Traducers And that God also hath evermore most evidently and eminently manifested his high indignation and even immediate wrath and displeasure especially on Tongue-persecuters of his precious people and on blasphemous Traducers and besmearers of his immaculate Truth all times and places can produce most copious presidents and most sad examples To passe by and pretermit all by-past presidents and former fearefull examples of Gods immediate and revengefull hand on such malignant Delinquents in former ages and extant I say in sacred Scriptures and other Histories and not to insist on that most remarkable one in Gods booke though most punctually pertinent to our purpose 2 Kings 2. 23 24. of above forty children slaine by two wild Beares immediately upon their mocking the godly Prophet of the Lord and onely calling him Bald pate in scorne and derision just as our malignants and their children jeeringly and sc●ffingly call Gods people now adaies by that foolish non-sence name of Round-heads To passe by this I say and all other of ancient or more moderne times and to come briefly and roundly since they will have it so to our owne times even since the most unhappy breaking out of these most unnaturall and intestine bloody broyles within our Kingdom of England England not empty of examples of Gods wrath against Tongue-persecuters of Truth wherein God hath not left us empty in Christian sorrow be it mentioned of many most evident demonstrations of his justly incensed indignation against the malignant Heart and Tongue-persecuters of our times against whom I mainely intend this Treatise but hath given us as many and as memorable sad spectacles of his apparent displeasure in his scoffing enemies ruine sorrow and shame as ever any former age or Nation saw and observed which being so fresh and fully knowne among us even many of us yet surviving they may most justly serve as I conceive both as occasions of griefe and godly sorrow in Gods Saints to see these miserable malignants who forsooth pretend and boast themselves as brave Protestants as the best yet to be so Godlesse and gracelesse so bitingly and bitterly to flout and affront the Lord Christ himselfe in his holy members and in his most glorious cause and also of most just shame and blushing at least if not of heart-breaking and bleeding conversion in them all to see so dangerous and desperately dying conditions of their malicious and malevolent brethren in iniquity Optimum est alienâ s●ui iasaniâ and thereby either to learne and indeed it is a speciall piece of wisdome to learne to be wise by other mens miseries to feare God and doe no more so sinfully or else most certainely and infallibly to feare and looke for like wrath and ruine sooner or latter in one kind or other if not I say prevented by true and timely repentance Now in the prosecution of this Treatise A threefold modell of the Mirrour or Looking-glasse and in the framing and forming of this our intended terrour striking Looking glasse I shall by Gods assistance with all convenient brevity and historicall fidelity endeavour to shew and set forth these three things First I shall herein represent and set forth unto the fight of our mole-ey●d Malignants 1. Gods hand against malignants and their cause if at least they will not too peevishly and perversly shut up their eyes against most cleare and radiantly Sunne-shine Truths Gods most evident and eminent hand against our malevolent malignants and their most accursed cause in divers remarkable generall pieces and passages of Gods admirable providence crossing and curbing their most wicked courses and contrivements against God in our Parliament and their just proceedings and then also in some particular neerer and closer personall and peculiar demonstrations of these cleare Truths Secondly I shall most conspicuously and apparently personate and shew unto them Gods most heavy hand upon malignants 2. Gods most heavy hand upon malignants persons in many most immediate and fearefully inflicted judgements and personall punishments suddenly and sorely laid upon them even in the very acting of their malignancy whereby they must needs with Pharao's malignant Magicians cry out and confesse Digitus Dei certainly this was no lesse then the very hand of God upon them Thirdly and lastly I shall herein exhibite to the eyes and understanding both of Malignants 3. A Caveat to Cowardly and faint-hearted Neuters and also of all cold and cowardly Neutrals and of either false or faint-hearted deserters of the Parliament cause and also of all unsetled and unresolved weake Christians in foure or five most memorable and as I may say Tragaecomicall examples of Gods justice mixt with mercy in justly wounding yet graciously healing the consciences of some such as had either wilfully or weakely deserted the Parliament and therein Gods unquestionable cause even the worke of a most glorious pure and pious Reformation of Church and State And so I shall shut up this our Looking-glasse with a briefe hortatory conclusion to all sorts of men and women both malignant and benevolent or wel-affected And here now I might in the first place rubbe up our malignants dull memories 1. Gods hand against malignants and that not impertinently and rouze up their drousie eye-lids and dead hearts with the review and