A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

CHAP. LXXIV. Examples of Dissimulation.

IT's forbidden, Rom. 12. 9. Psal. 26. 4. Jam. 1. 8. 1 Pet. 2. 1.

Complained of, Josh. 7. 11. Jer. 42. 20. Prov. 26 24. Psal. 12. 2.

Scriptural Examples, Jacob, Gen. 27. 19. Jacobs sons, Gen. 34. 13. Joseph, Gen. 42. 7▪ 23. David, 1 Sam. 21. 13. Ammon, 2 Sam. 13. 6. Absalon, 2 Sam. 13. 20, 22, 28. Hushai, 2 Sam. 16. 16. & 17. 11. Joab, 2 Sam. 20. 9, 10. Jeroboams wife, 1 King. 14. 2, 5. Jehu, 2 King. 9. 11, 12. & 10. 18. Sanballat, Neh. 6. 2. Shemaiah, and others, Neh••. 6. 10, 19. Esther, ch. 5. 4. with 7. 4 Davids enemies, Psal. 26. 5. Jeremiah, ch. 38. 27. Ismael, Jer. 41. 6. Herod, Matth. 2. 8. Judas, Luk. 22. 47. Joh. 12. 5, 6. False Apostles, 2 Cor. 11. 13, 14. Peter, Barnabas, and other Jews, Gal. 2. 12, 13. the Beast, Rev. 13. 11.

Other Examples.

Tiberius Caesar when the Empire was first prof∣fered [ 1] to him, seemed very shie in accepting of it, whereupon one noting his dissimulation said to him: Other men are slow to perform what they promise; thou dost slowly promise what thou performest. Nothing his delay in what he most desired. Eras. Apoth.

Caligula in the beginning of his Empire seemed [ 2] to be very mild, and merciful: But Theodore Gada∣roeus his Master said that he was Lutum sanguine mac••ratum, noting his cruel disposition, as after∣wards it came to passe.

Nero in the first five years of his reign pretended [ 3] to all manner of virtue: so that the people said that he excelled their former good Emperours: but af∣terwards laying aside his dissimulation, he proved a Pest and Plague to the whole world

What devillish dissimulation Charles the 9^th. [ 4] King of France used to draw the Admiral, and the Protestant Nobility into his snare: See in my Gen. Martyrologie p. 309. &c.

Richard Duke of Gloucester was so cunning a dis∣sembler [ 5] that he would accompany most familiarly, and jest pleasantly with such as he hated in his heart: He made his conscience in all things serve his will, though his will could not be obtained without the effusion of guiltlesse blood: when he had murthered King Edward the 5^th. his Nephew, and his Brother in the Tower, and had cut off the heads of some of the Lords that stood in his way, he suborned one Dr. Shaw in a Sermon at Pauls Crosse to blazon his honourable Birth, and Pa∣rentage, to relate his Virtues, to commend his Va∣lour, to weaken the fame, and honour of the de∣ceased King Edward by reason of his lasciviousnesse with Shores Wife, to basterdize all his children as being born in Adultery, &c. and applying his speech to the worthinesse, and goodnesse of Richard, he took it for granted that the people could not choose but receive him for their undoubted So∣vereign, and King, and so he strove to have prepa∣red the multitude to have shouted when Richard came in, and to have cryed, King Richard, King Ri∣chard: but he failed of his purpose, for every man was silent, and more surprised with wonder then with applause, to see how wickedly these busines∣ses were carried on. The next day the Duke of

Buckingham went to Guildhall in London, and there to the Citizens endeavoured by like arguments to make Richard the Protector the right, and undoubt∣ed heire, and inheriter of the Crown, and though the people took no content in this speech, nor by their voyces assented to that which was delivered, yet he procured the Lord Major, and Aldermen the next day to go with him, and many other Lords to Bainard's Castle to the Protector, where they offered him to receive him for their lawfull King, intreating him to accept of the burden: But oft∣times he refused to grant their request: yet at last (seeming to be overcome by their importunity) he assented: and thus by their perswasions he gained his own hearts desire. Mart. Chron.