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The giddy uncertain disposition of the Multitude or common People. [ 1847]
IT is said of the Roes and Hinds, that they are most tender and fearful of all beasts,* 1.1 affrighted with any noise, checked with the least foyl, turned out of course with the snapping of a stick, presently make head another way, and when they are once out of their wonted walk, Erranti in via nullus est terminw, they run they know not whither, even to their own death.* 1.2 Such is the natural dispo∣sition of the Multitude or Common People, soon stirred up, quickly awry, sometimes running full head one way, on a sodain turned as much another, easily set a gogg, delighted with novelties, full of alteration and change, one day crying Hosanna, the next day, Crucifie him; Whilest the Viper is upon S. Paul's hand, he is a Murtherer; but no sooner off,* 1.3 in the turning of a hand, a God; One while the People wept,* 1.4 because they had no Temple; and when the Temple was built again, they wept as fast, because the glory of the second was not like the first. In the sad time of Q. Mary, there was lamentation and crying out, That Idolatry was set up, the Church polluted, and the Gospel taken away: Afterwards, in the time of that famous Q. Elizabeth, when through the great mercy of God, the Gospel was advanced, and the light thereof did comfortably shine throughout the whole Kingdom;* 1.5 then they murmured and cryed out as fast again, That we had no Church, no Ministery, Truth was wrapp'd up in Ceremonies, and all was Anti∣christian; so giddy and uncertain, nay such is the madnesse of the People.