strength that shee began on the sudden to play the Rebell and with a tumultuous assembly gathered together in the plaines of Shinar shee began to fortifie her selfe against Heauen Amongst those Giants then reigning ouer the face of the earth that greedy Curre Couetousnesse which the Apostle tearmeth to be the roote of all euils was amongst a number of other monstrous sinnes fostered vp by Ambition Couetousnesse was the first parent of Oppression Extortion Bribery Vsury Fraud Deceit Subtilty and that common Strumpet Idolatry was a bastard borne of this broode Idolatry had issue the Lady Lecherie who in processe of time became so conuersant with the Pope and his Cardinals that they procreated amongst them that loathsome sinne of Buggery It would bee a matter of impossibilitie for me to set downe the varieties of those sinnes that are hatched vp in these daies when so many new fashioned iniquities doth swarme both in Cittie Towne and Country that were our bodies but halfe so diseased with sicknesses as our soules be with sins it could not be auoided but that some strange and vnheard-of mortality would ensue The time hath beene men would maske their vices with cloaked dissimulation from the eye of the world but now iniquitie is set forth bare fast without any maske of preteires to hide her ougly visage They sought to couer their sinnes from the open show we haue so litle shame that we neuer seek to shelter them our Ancestors were but bunglers at vice they had not the wit to grace a sinne nor to set it forth to the show they could but call a Spade a spade a Greene Goose a gosling a professed Broker a craftie knaue we are become farre more exquisite we can make an Owle a Hawke a Iacke Naaps a sheepe an old Milne Horse a palfry for a man of honour we can call Impudency Audacitie Rage Courage Wilinesse wit Obstinacy Constancy and Lewde Lust Pure Loue. Our wittes are become more capering then they were in times past our conceits more nimble and ready to finde out new trickes new toies and new inuentions as well of follies as of fashions But what remedie pride thinkes scorne to be reprooued or to be told of her faults she is growne so stubborne and so stately Swearing swaggers out admonition and will not be reprooued Whooredome and Drunkennesse hath so hid themselues in the Maze of vanities that repentance can no where fiinde them out Rage Fury are produced as argumēts of valour where the Lie shall be giuen but vpon the speaking of a word the Stab againe returned but for the giuing of the Lie where not to pleadge a Health is a ground good ynough for a Challenge and the taking of wall made a heinous matter whereby many times murther doth insue But sinners haue three shrewd witnesses to testifie against them the Diuell the Law and their owne Consciences but if here vpon the earth a mans owne conscience condemnes him for his sinne how much greater shall be the iudgement of God The glory of pride as she passeth through the streetes in this age doth so farre exceed that the eye of heauen is ashamed to behold it And those blessings which God hath giuen vs in great measure we consume in pride and wantonnesse and like Swine we beslauer the precious pearles of Gods abundant plenty conuerting them by our excessiue pride into dearth and scarcity and this wickednesse ariseth not from Turkes Iesuits Heretykes and Papists but from the professors of true Christianity and euen now in the hottest Sunne-shine of the Gospell we haue neglected Heauen to dote vpon the vaine pleasures of the earth and haue forsaken God but to wrappe our selues in the excrement of wormes a little garded and garnished with the minerall of Gold and Siluer How many that are not able to pay honestly for home-spunne cloth will yet weare silke and will euery day glister in Gold and Siluer the soule goes euery day in her working day clothes whilest the body keepes perpetuall holy-day and iets vp and downe in her seuerall suites How many againe are so eager of superfluities that all their racked rents in the country are not able to discharge the Shop bookes in the City when there be that will spend asmuch as some knights be worth but in a payre of Garters and a payre of Shooestrings It is pride that hath banished Hospitality and good house keeping It is pride that raiseth the rents and rates of all things vniuersally It is pride that breadeth our dearth and scarcities It is pride that impouerisheth City Towne and countrey It is pride that filles all the prisons in England and brings a number to the Gallowes It is pride if it be not preuented in time that will make a hangmans roome in reuersion to be a good sute for a gentleman that hath honestly serued his Prince and Countrey for howsoeuer hee may shift for meate and drinke he shall be sure to want no cloathes It was a happy age when a man might haue wooed his wench with a paire of Kiddes lether Gloues a Siluer Thimble or with a Tawdry Lace but now a veluet gowne a chaine of pearle or a coach with foure horses will scarcely serue the turne shee that her mother would haue beene glad of a good Ambling Maare to haue rode to Market on will not now steppe out of her owne doores to crosse the other side of the streete but shee must haue her coache It was a merry world when seauen or eight yeards of veluet would haue made a gowne for a Lady of honour now eighteene will not suffice for her that is scarce worthy to be a good Ladies laundresse we are growne from a peticoate of stamell to cloath of siluer cloath of gold silke stockings and not so much as our shoes but they must be imbrodered with siluer with gold yea and sometimes with pearles I haue spoken of pride indifferently how it inforceth a like both men and women it is pride that draweth after it such a daily innouation of new fashions that I thinke they haue found out whole Mines of new inuentions or they haue gotten the Philosophers stone to multiply there is such a daily multiplicity both of follies and fashions Vitellius in his daies searched farre and neare for the varieties of Nature but we haue harrowed Hell in these daies for the vanity of new fashions and I thinke wee haue found them out for hee that had as many Eyes as Argus were not able to looke into the one halfe that are now followed and imbraced aswell by men as women The Prophet Esay in his 3. Chapt. maketh mentiō of many strange engins belongeth to women he speaketh there of oyntments for their lippes of caules and round attires for their heads of sweete balles bracelets and bonnets of tabiletes earrings muffelers wimples vailes crisping pinnes glasses lawnes and fine linnen These and many other vanities belonging to women are there numbred
daily Heb. 3. And in the 19. of Leuit. it is expressely set downe Thou shalt plainly rebuke thy Neighbour and shalt not suffer him to sinne And there is none but a Cain that will deny to bee his brothers keeper But is not euery man tyed aswell by the rule of Gods word as by the lawes of euery well gouerned common wealth not onely to reprehend but also to informe against any person that either by word or deede shall seeke to eclipse the honour or dignitie of his Prince If we owe this duty to a King here vpon the earth how much are wee further obliged to the King of Kings to the King of Heauen shall we see his lawes despised his name prophaned his Maiestie blasphemed and shall we be silent and hold our peace Qui tacet consentire videtur to heare and see and say nothing is to make our selues a partie But we dare not do our duties for displeasing of those that haue alreadie bequeathed themselues to the Diuell for offending a Drunkard for offending an Adulterer for offending a Blasphemer for offending a Papist From hence it is that vice doth now sleepe in that security that Philips Boy that euery day cloyed his master with the clamor of mortalitie is not able to awaken it but thou that art so a sleepe in sinne that nothing can awaken thee assure thy selfe thou shalt be so awakened that nothing shall bring the a sleepe I haue hitherto spoken of the custome of sinne how it hath weakned our spirits and lulde vs a sleepe in the cradle of security I do appeale from your drowsie lustes to your awakened consciences whether I haue spoken the truth or nay If I should now speake of the antiquitie of sinne and should therewithall take vpon me to deliuer the manifold afflictions that from time to time and from age to age she hath drawne from the iudgment seate of God to punish the enormity of wickednesse here vpon the earth I might enter into such a labyrinth as Theseus clew would hardly suffice to wind me out It was sinne that first secluded the Angels from the ioyes of heauen it was Sinne that draue Adam out of Paradise It was sinne that caused the inundation of the whole world It was sinne that drew on the tempest of Fire and Brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrha It was sinne that brought destruction on that holy city of Ierusalem It is sinne that at all times and in all ages hath plaid the Strumpet through all the partes of the world and hath filled the whole face of the earth with her brood of bastards And as the Armies of the Low countries are compounded of English of Scots of French of Spanish of Italians of Germans and of all the nations of Christendome collected and gathered together so the sinnes of all those countries and of all the world besides are euery day ingrossed and transported into England We haue stolne away the pride and ambition of the Spaniard the fraude and falshood of the French the deceit and subtilty of the Italian the drunkennesse and swearing of the German we haue robbed the Iew of his vsury the barbarous Sicilian of his rage and cruelty the Turke and Infidel of his infidelity and vnbeliefe we haue spoyled the Venetian Curtizans of their alluring vanities to decke our English women in the new fashion and Rome that sometimes hath beene worthily renowned but now reputed to be the very synke of sinne we haue brought from them their idolatry their superstition their popery their heresie and we haue robbed the Pope himselfe and all his colledge of Cardinals both of their luxury and their letchery and all his whole rablement of Monks Fryers and Massing Priests of their beastly Bawdery This propagation of sinne that hath infected the whole world with their abhominations thus transported into England are now there resident and all entertained not like strangers but as natiues that had beene both borne and bred in the countrey And that old hagge Sinne herselfe that a man would thinke should be so far spent in yeares and ouerworne with age that she should be past trimming is more propagating at this present howre then she was fiue thousand yeares agoe and is become more wanton nice and toyish then euer she was before And notwithstanding though from the beginning she hath bin notoriously knowne to be a most infamous strūpet common to all yet now within these very few yeares one of these poore thread bare knights Sir Nicholas New-fashions by name that had so wasted and consumed himselfe in foolish pride and prodigality that he was not worth the clothes that was belonging to his owne backe hoping by her means to support his vaine glorious pride hath taken her to be his wife and hath made her a Lady And although sinne of her owne nature and disposition be both proud and presumptuous more then ynough yet now being dignified with a Ladiship and being inrould in the Heraulds booke to march in the Ladies rancke she is become more bold and insolent then euer she was and who now but my Lady New fashions that is had in esteeme she is almost euery day troling in her Coach about the streetes insinuating herselfe into euery company there is no feasting banquiting reueling nor any other merry meeting but my Lady New fashions is a principall guest When she meeteth and conuerseth with Ladies and Gentlewomen some shee teacheth to paint themselues some to powder their periwigs some she doth corrupt in manners making them to be like her selfe Bold impudent immodest some she induceth to play the Harlots For as she herselfe hath bin a common Strumpet from the beginning so shee hath bin a notorious Bawde and a Witch and those women that shee cannot inchant with her Siren tongue those shee infameth by lying and slandering And who is it but this old Beldame Sinne now bearing the name of the Lady new fashions that setteth a worke these new fangled Tailers these Body-makers these Perfumers these Imbroderers these Attire-makers and all the rest of these inuenters of vanities that are the instruments of sinne that doth inforce their whole endeauours to fit her in her follies and to decke and adorne her in her pride and wantonnesse The number is almost without number that doth both serue her and will likewise seeke to defend her Artificers Tradesmen Shopkeepers Men women and children are all depending vpon her and as Demetrius the siluer smith in the 19. of the Actes incenced the people against Paul telling the Crafts-men that he went about to diminish the dignitie and reputation of their great Goddesse Diana which if he should bring to passe their gaines would likewise quaill that got their liuings by those workes belonging to her selfe and to her great Temple in Ephesus and as these perswasions stirred vp the multitude in those daies so he that in this age doth but open his lippes to speake against sinne shall want no
accusers not onely to reprooue him but also to reproach him Sinne doth neither want Siluer-smithes nor Gold-smithes to serue her with plate and garnish her with iewels that will call him Foole that will but speake against her excesse Sinne hath her Silkemen and Mercers that doth serue her of lace silke sattin veluet cloath of siluer cloath of gold that will say he is a Criticke that will inueigh against her pride Sinne hath her Merchants that will transport the commodities behoouefull for the common wealth into forraine countries and will returne backe againe toies and trifles that will say he is but a satyrist that will detect her vanitie Sinne hath her Lawyers that will bring him into the Starre-Chamber for a Libeller that will speake against her Bribery Sinne hath her Procters that will cite him to the Commissaries Court and make him doe open penance that will speake against her whooredome I might yet speake of women whereof a great number that are not to be detected with any bodily abuse that would yet sharpen their tongues to chide at any man that would reprehend those enormities that sinne by custome had ingrafted in them But I would I could now admonish Ladies and Gentlewomen that amongst all the creatures of Gods handie worke I doe acknowledge to bee most excellent here vpon the earth but as the finest cloath is most aptest to take a staine so their milde dispositions inclined to all compassionate loue and curtesie are soonest led astray and most easiest to be seduced And this olde Hagge of Hell this loathsome Lady Sinne with her glazed eyes her painted cheekes her new-formed fashions and her inchanting tongue doth so bewitch and blindfolde their vnderstandings that when they thinke they conuerse with an Angell of Light they giue entertainment to a Monster of Hell but when Sinne shall present her selfe to their new awakened soules in her true forme and shape and begins once to play the make-bate betweene God and them and their owne consciences to testifie betweene them and themselues then they shall see to their owne sorrow what Saint it is that they haue serued they shall then perceiue to their great horror and grief that this darling of theirs so dearly esteemed and beloued will then be most busie to affright and afflict them I would I could wish therefore and with a reuerent regard I doe intreate them that they would bethinke themselues of their owne happinesse whilst they haue time and not to doe as that foolish gentlewoman that neuer remembred to say her prayers till she heard it thunder But some wil say And why women more then men because as women are more flexible and therefore more apt to be seduced to ill so they are more tractable againe and therfore more easie to be induced to vertue Men are composed of an vneuen temperature of the elements togither with the malitious influence of the planets prefiguring them to be sturdie stubborne froward and ouerthwart but women are by nature of a more excellent metall their hearts are more soft and yeelding and themselues more pliable to all vertue and goodnesse There is more possibility to reclaime ten ill liuing women to a conformitie of a better life then to reforme one misliuing man Would they now bethinke themselues when they looke in their Glasses that there is no Forehead heeld so gracefull amongst many women as that which the Prophet Ieremie tearmeth to be gracelesse the Forehead that is past shame and cannot blush let them therefore fall a chiding at their owne resemblances beginning first with the Forehead and say ô thou proud and shamelesse Forehead the very Chaire and Seate of pride where thou shouldest be deckt with a Crowne of Glory thou art clouded and ouershadowed with a monstrous Mappe of Haire no lesse offensiue to the Maiestie of God then ougly and deformed in the sight of all good men be ashamed therefore of thy intollerable pride and by thy humilitie and submissiue lowlinesse reconcile thy selfe againe to thy God whom thou hast so highly offended Descending then a little say yet againe ô you wandering and lasciuious Eyes the attracters and drawers on of lust and sinfull thoughts you that were first created to be the Deemers of my Discretion but now become the Dimners of the insight of my Soule forbeare your wonted traines of light and wanton glances seeke now with bitter teares to bewaile your former follies and lifting vp your selues to Heauen aske grace and mercie Proceeding thus you may yet reprooue the Tongue that is more apt to speake ill then good the Eares againe that are euer more set wide open to vanitie but still shut vp to good counsell or godly instruction And so we may say of all the rest of our necessarie and naturall members that are displaced of their ordinarie courses for being first created as the Ministers of the Soule are now become the Disturbers of our Innocency This externall beautie of the body so much esteemed of amongst women when they behold it in a Glasse it should stirre them vp a farre off to display the maiestie of the Creator and from thence should passe with the wings of their cogitations to the contemplation of the highest Faire which is the inuisible beautie of the Almighty God from whence as from a Fountaine all smaller Riuers deriue their beauties It is said that Africa bringeth forth euery yeare a new Monster the reason is that in the desarts of that countrey the wilde and sauage beasts that are both diuerse in nature and contrarie in kinde will yet ingender the one with the other but England hatcheth vp euery moneth a new Monster euery weeke a new Sinne and euery day a new Fashion our Monsters are not bred in the Desarts as those in Africa but in euery Towne and Citty where they are so chearely fostered so daintily cherished that they multiply on heapes by hundreds and by thousands It were not possible for me now to set down how this monstrous generation thus hatched vp by Sinne hath beene from time to time procreated and brought into the world one sinne still begetting an other Pride the eldest daughter of Sinne was first Spaund in Heauen shee was from thence expelled but shee drew after her a great dissolution of Angels It was pride that begat Contempt in Paradise where there was no Apple in the Garden so well pleasing to Eue as that which God had forbidden her It was Contempt that begot Malice And Malice againe begat Murther when Cain kild his brother Abell As the sonnes of men increased in the world so Sinne began to multiply so fast that God repented him that hee had made man To purge the world of her abhominations the Deluge came and all were drowned except eight persons After the Floud amongst the sonnes of Noah the generation of the accursed Cham became to be great and mightie vpon the earth at which time Sinne was growne againe to that
are indeede enemies to the Crosse of Christ and doe tread his holy bloud vnder their scornefull feete that do build vp deuotion with ignorance and doe ring out their hot Alarums in the eares of the vnlearned teaching that the light can bee no light that the Scriptures can bee no Scriptures nor the truthcan be no truth but by their allowance and if they will say that high noone is midnight we must beleeue them and make no more adoe but get vs to bed These bee they that can make God the creator that made both heauen and earth of a little peece of bread this doctrine they do teach and this the poore ignorant Papists must beleeue and zealously say Amen to but alas their pretended holinesse in zeale is indeede but the hollownesse in zeale and the fulnes of that zeale wherewith they be so blinded ariseth through the emptinesse of that knowledge which they will not see If blindnesse be a misery what is ignorance or if the duskinesse of the night be vncomfortable what is the darkenesse of superstitious Popery A Papist and a Tayler are of like affinitie they do both relie on their good workes their faithes do hang on other mens beleefes they doe exercise all their religion by an exorcising Masse accounting the old new testaments to be but bookes of controuersies holding it to be a peremptorie sacriledge for any lay-man to meddle with they thinke they may see more by a waxe candle when it is lighted then they may doe by the light of Gods word they say they be good subiects dutifull and loyall and yet what a wrangling they do keepe with the Prince for his supremacy The hound that followeth two hares at once can catch neither and hee that serueth two masters of contrarie kinds must bee a traitor to the one As much possible to vnite two contrary religions in one conscience as to reconcile fire and water Christ and Beliall God and the Diuell If the Pope court in the conscience and sit in the Throne of the heart the King can haue there but a cold entertainment Hee was wise therefore that turned his guest out of doores that could warme his cold hands with the same breath wherewith he cooled his hot pottage The Papists haue mouthes for their Masses tongues for their Prince and hearts for their Pope but let them say what they list and let them sometimes binde it with an oath the Pope hath taught his vermine a new doctrine of equiuocation and of mentall reseruation and he hath dispensations in store not onely for infringing an oath to a King but also for the murthering of a King if he be such a King as doth professe the Gospell If the Popes penance chāber were opened we might finde a rate of pardons for all offences that might be committed either against God or man those onely excepted that may be any waies preiudiciall to him selfe nay you shall finde indulgences for future offences for sinnes that are not yet committed Christ forgiueth no sinne but vpon hearty repentance the Pope forgiueth all sinnes onely for ready mony a happie thing for rich men that may buy heauen for mony but the diuel in the meane time is like to be basely attended on in hell with a company of poore beggers that are not able to buy pardons nor to purchase dispensations The Pope shutteth vp all goodnesse into his owne waare-house God receiueth vs now no more to mercie but he receiueth vs to penance to plunge vs in purgatory where we shall lie scorched and broiled till the Pope in his charitable disposition will mercifully release vs which he is euer readie to doe if we haue ready money to giue him And for the Saints they are become very tyrants malicious and vengible if their Eues be not fasted their images worshipped and their Shrines visited with a Candell or with some other offering they will else wreake themselues of vs without any compassion will both punish and grieuously afflict vs so that there is no mercy remaining in God nor in his Saints but all resteth in the Pope alone Doe not the poore Papists runne mad in conceit to thinke that Indulgences for all sinnes may be deriued from the Popes Exchequer that if a man wants not mony he needs not want heauen that the meere signe of the crosse can fray away the diuell that priests should be licensed their concubines and inhibited there wiues that one Benefice and one honest wife should be vnlawfull but that two Benefices and three whores should bee tollerable But let vs a little consider of these holy votaries that haue vowed obedience that haue vowed pouertie that haue vowed chastitie what is their vowed obedience but an exemption of all obedience either to God or man to serue their Pope alone what is their vowed pouertie but to inioy the wealth of the world to liue in ease and idlenesse and to feede themselues fat and now to speake truely what is their vowed chastitie but vowed Bawderie The efficient cause of Poperie it first springeth from a blinde zeale it doth vaunt of true religion and attributeth a certaine vertue vnto things without Gods ordinance The Pope himselfe steales his ceremonies from Iewes from Turkes from Pagans some from Idolatry all from Heresie Poperie could neuer endure the preaching of the Gospel and there is neither Turke Iew nor Pagan whatsoeuer that the Papists doe so much hate as they do these Heretickes that do seeke their saluation in the death passion of Iesus Christ we pitty them they persecute vs we pray for them they persue vs we loue them they loath vs we seeke to conuert them they seeke to confound vs they pursue vs not for that we are sinners but because we are zealous of the glory of God of sincere pure worship they hate vs not because of our offences but because of that will and desire it hath pleased God to giue vs to serue him purely according to his word they seeke vs not out for our abhominations and Idolatries but because we detest theirs Thus they hate vs but it is with a contrary hatred for they hate vs because we do seeke the glory of God according to his word of the which they would drepriue vs. In a briefe manner now to shew you what a Papist is he is blinde in knowledge lame in iudgment selfe conceited apt to beleeue lyes he is willfull obstinate he is wise and holy in his owne conceite walking in the steps of other mens opinions he cannot beleeue that God vnderstandeth any praiers but those that are made in latine he thinketh there is no other high way to heauen but that which leadeth through purgatory Amongst all the Beastes in the field he loues a Popes Bull but amongst all the Hearbes in the garden he cannot endure that which the Apothecaries do call Gratia Dei his eyes are
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 theÌ„ 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 â—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