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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02430	The glasse of mans folly and meanes to amendment, for the health and wealth of soule and body. This glasse of mans folly, is that we may know, the cause of the cruelty, which dayly doth flow. ...	B. H., fl. 1595.	1615 (1615)	STC 12562A; ESTC S118418	51,161	76

which turnes still to the lesse Then the youth entreth into a Shoppe booke the day come money hee hath none his Land is accepted friendly he is excited hee makes a sale and sets vp that buyer the money soone spent he sets vp a wispe and is drudge to swearers and drunkards If that serues not then begging théening and killing venturing soule and body for money but tyed at Tiborne take example The cry of the carelesse Our wofull Parents loued our bodies but hated our soules woe to the time of that libertie Yet some will not be warned they are remisse in that dutie and bring their children to misery O securitant thou art the cause of thy childes destruction if not damnation and thy childe the meanes of thine Hadst thou béene carefull his precious time had not béene spent in play whereof came idle speaking strife swearing pouerty théeuing hanging preiudiciall effects of dicing and carding Some say My sonne is no Dicer nor Carder but thou permitst him to a proparatiue by such like play All euill is so prompt to spring from our corrupt natures that euill learned in youth is hard to bee remooued if good it is like to bee setled Therefore rightly are children compared to Vessels which commonly kéepe the taste of the first liquor Yet many will not be counselled but giue euill example to their household Tully toucheth them Plus nocent exemplo quam peccato They hurt more by the example then by the thing it selfe The actions of House-kéepers doe animate the household Eph. 5.16 Men must redéeme the time Vertue must bee annexed to faith Let vs vse holy conuersation and godlinesse Pet. 1. Passe the time of your soiourning heere in feare To preuent youths vicinitie to vice in stead of dice and carding reade good bookes pray and prayse God Euery minute requires the aduancement of Gods glory and good of each other Vnprofitable actions become not Christians they are no motiues to mooue men to praise GOD. Carelesse Libertines must leaue them they are no good works of the Gospell nor the light Christ gaue charge should shine among men but meanes to haue God blasphemed and the Diuell serued They are no holy actions no fruits of the Spirit rather wantonnesse whereof ensueth contentions and fruits of the flesh A good trée brings foorth good fruit Mathew 7. The fruitlesse combers the ground Mat. 21.19 like the wilde Figge trée that Christ withered Forasmuch as the effects of carding and dicing are euill and the exercise thereof may bee left without damage to any it is sufficient to prooue they ought not to bee vsed To reprooue many things in briefe 1. The. 5.22 Abstaine from all appearance of euill that is from things that haue a shew of euill much more from things meanes of euill The effects shew that dicing and carding causeth euill Not to mée nor by mée saith one Oh thou spendest the time that might be spent better and shewest an euill example farre from grauitie and integritie Whatsoeuer are appearance of euill ought to bee omitted but dicing and carding are appearance of euill ergo they ought to bee omitted The assumption is prooued by the euill effects besides the offence giuen to the godly Mathew 18. Christ pronounceth woe to Offenders 1. Cor. 8 13. Some néedfull things are to be omitted to auoyd offence much more néedlesse Whatsoeuer is vnprofitable and may bee omitted without damage ought not to bee vsed but carding and dicing are vprofitable and may bee omitted without damage ergo they ought not to be vsed Dicing and carding which consisteth méerely vpon blinde hazard lot and chance are to be reiected Dicing consists in lot-casting being a religious ordinance for serious matters to determine doubtfulnesse Lotte was cast for Mathias Acts 1. God is the disposer of the Lot Pro. 16.33 Oh it is base to bée vsed in boyes play Publius Quanto alcator in arte melior est tanto nequior est How much the Dicer is cunning in his Arte so much the worse hee is S. Amb. lib. 1. De offic chap. 23. Playes pastimes are swéete when they are repugnant to the rules of christianitie Ciprian Play at Cards is an inuention of Satan which he found out that he might the easier bring in Idolatry for the coat cards which are vsed were sometime the Images of Idols and false gods Iustinian the Emperour abhorred Dice play by his Authenicall Lawes suppressed it Magistrates forbid it Preachers reprooue it for the word of God doeth menace it the Fathers reiect it and the Pagans detest it Gen. 1.27 Man was inuested in Gods likenesse we should imitate Gods properties hee wrought that could make all things at a thought Gen. 2.15 and so appoynted vs. And the Lord God tooke the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dresse it and to keepe it If man in his inocencie ought to worke much more now being polluted Gen. 3.19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne vnto the ground Some will not worke in Winter and therfore begge in Summer It is written 2. Thess 3. That if any would not worke neyther should they eate If thou be wealthy and wilt not worke Adam was wealthier and hée wrought Walke thou in the Fields behold Gods benefits and prayse him Walke in thy house pray read and meditate for dicing and carding is vnwholsome bréedes Gout and Dropsie They bee called honest recreations yet Sathans inuentions The prophane are cald Good fellowes so haue béene Diuels Gods word doth direct vs to passe the short time of our pilgrimage Iames 5.13 Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry let him sing Psalmes But prayer seemes vnpleasant and Psalmes too much solemnity Hymnes and spirituall songs some haue no skill in when bawdy catches delight them Mat. 12. Idle words for which men shall giue an account of at the day of Iudgement séeme swéete Idle words are Vanae inutiles nugae in quibus plerique vitam terunt Vaine and vnprofitable tryfles in which many waste their life Idlenesse is the cause of idle words Otium puluinar est Satanae Idlenesse is a Feather-bed of the Diuell Idle words are with idle actions You turne the Dye thinke how you turne to folly Thou doest cast thy Card thinke how you cast away time Thou bidst thy Bowl rub thinke thou shalt be rotten Refrayne from vanitie and also crueltie sée no blinde things fight nor blinde Beares whipt Mat. 5. Blessed are the mercifull Pro. 12. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast Let good motiues bee a meanes to preuent such pastimes as are meanes to preuent repentance Christ saith Watch and pray Mat. 26.41 The world saith Watch and play The holy Ghost bids vs Heb. 12. Follow peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. But common Gamesters are commonly wranglers and séeme voyd of peace and holinesse O

youth Gen. 39.8 when he was offerrd he refused for he feard God The body is not for fornication but for the Lord yet such forsake Christ and make themselues the members of an harlot They are repugnant to those that kéepe themselues chaste for the kingdome of heauen sake which Christ hath set in a place of price and saith Mat. 19. Hee that can take it let him take it but a varlet takes an harlot Hee that hath not the gift to liue single and chast may séeke for mariage lawful for all men 1. Cor. 7.9 Heb. 13.4 and is an Antidotarie against fornication to bee vsed in the feare of God for the procreation of children and for the mutuall societie of each other Yet many of the sauadge sort maryed know not the right vse of mariage but linger after lusts like bruit beasts and like a Nicholaitan not content is cōmon with an other proud Paramour The vnmaried maried of leawd disposition must be aduertised by Solomon Pro. 23.27 A reproofe of Adultery A whore is a deepe ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit Pro. 6. He that committeth adultery destroyeth his owne soule Her house inclyneth vnto death her paths vnto the dead None that go to her returne againe Pro. 2. neyther take they hold of the waies of life Oh drudges of drudgery ye refuse the heauenly felicity Adultery fornication vncleannes laciuiousnes Gal. 5. All kinde of vnleannesse must be abandoned Pro. 15. Psal 113. Ier. 23. Amos 9. A meanes of chastitie are fruits of the flesh the cōmitters thereof shal not inherit the kingdome of heauen It is to be feared that fornicators adulterers are Atheists for durst any doe such a thing before a king they doe it before the All-seeing King of kings The eyes of the Lord are in euery place beholding the euill the good Yet Asotus serues Asmodeus in Cities towns and countries Psa 97. Ye that loue the Lord hate euill A meanes of chastity is mediocrity in dyet labor watching prayer reading hearing meditating refrayning frō wāton cōpany vnchast speaches gawish apparrel gazing on the disguised frō wanton looks therfore rule thy rowling eies Iust Iob saith 31. I made a couenant with mine eies why should I think vpō a maid If thy heart be cleane thy eye is ruled if thy heart be wicked thy eye is wādring which fils thy hart ful of pollution Christ faith Mat. 5.28 Whosoeuer looketh on a woman Mat. 5.28 to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Kéepe in thy eye the heart will be the better vse it to thy booke 2. Sam. 11. Dauid looked on the wife of Vriah hee liked lusted and for it was perplexed and hauing a new heart hee prayeth to the Lord Psa 119.37 Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie Gen. 12. Pharaoh was plagued and all his house with great plagues for delighting in Sara vnknowne to them to be a wife Yee Lust-louers leaue it Yée Fornicators and Adulterers in pretence and action how shall ye escape the vengeance to come your idlenesse and drunkennesse bringeth Bastards I grudge not your collections but grieue at your small corrections Oh Salax bee sanctified resist Sathan Susanna consented not but withstood the stout Adulterers Be warned youth was neuer more wayward Consider this you that are marryed and are inordinate in abusing your bed O feare the Lord lest your propagation be vntoward extraordinary and stange abortiue or vntimely Imitate Tobias 8. He being newly maried to Sara rose out of the bed and said Sister arise and let vs pray that God would haue pitty on vs and the latter end of his prayer was this vers 7 And now ô Lord I take not this my Sister for lust but vprightly therefore mercyfully ordaine that we may become aged together And she said with him Amen And I pray God more may be so minded Amen Timete Iehouam ¶ Starch is here reprooued Poking-irons are ill vsed AS by Gods word Drunkennesse and Whoredome is conuinced so is Starch made of that which is the chiefest foode for the sustentation of vs here reprooued For whereas poore people that want bread should be nourished and fed therewith many to fulfill their fond affections feede their great Ruffs which shewes we haue more desire to carnall delights then loue to relieue the needy Many men women children want bread which earth doth vse for pride But Loue-lusts say they buy it and the efore not culpable of the making a ridiculous excuse for if there were no buyer there should be no seller There be wealthy Houswiues and good house-kéepers that vse no starch but faire water their Linnen is white and they looke more Christian-like in small Ruffes then Light of loue lookes in her great starched ruffs looke she neuer so hie with eye-lids awrye The princely Prophet saith Him that hath an hie looke and a proude heart will not I suffer Psal 101. Presuppose prettie pleasure did say Where finde you in Gods word starch forbidden It is like it was not vsed in the time of the Apostles therefore not named But the Diuell hath inuented it and many such deuises in these last lustfull dayes I finde that CHRIST saith Whatsoeuer yee would that men should doe to you euen so doe you to them Therefore consider would you the poore shuld vse vnprofitable meanes to make you suffer hunger and colde No Math 7.12 no pricked pride your fruits are faultie Whatsoeuer will serue necessarily for the sustētation of man ought not vnprofitably to be spent but the Meale Starch is made of will serue necessarily for the sustentation of man Ergò it ought not vnprofitably to be spent This Syllogisme consisteth of no false principles And if you think it not spent vnprofitably vpon great ruffs consider the effects First it hindreth our food Discōmodities of starch starching it wasteth our wood it spends the precious Time that might be spent better And people liue gréedily and néedily to maintaine it It frets out much Linnen and the poking-Irons seare it and wasting that people want it is to be feared it hath often moued GOD to seare the Corne and Grasse vpon the ground Wanton wenches are tempters and Inticers that ruffs must be great and starched Good men must resist them for Eue by inticing brought Adam to ruine There is as much spent in that haynous order as might sustaine manie poore people which aske Bread The answer is I haue it not when Newe-guise hath it about the necke Manie spend Daies and Nights vnprofitably to set great Ruffs yea oft when they should heare and learne Gods word Oh shamelesse Mares more liker then bashfull Maids that spend most parte of theyr life time about Starch and starching patting pulling thrusting rubbing wearing tearing and starching of cloth with hote Irons Lucifer inuenter of Pride hath inuented an exercise wherein Minion Meretrix takes alacritie Much wood