userers, adulterers, hereticks, schismatick, apestats, wheres and bawds of Noblemen, perjured-merchants, corrupt Judges, souldiers, Tyrants, or from any that live contrary to Gods law.
Perverse and wicked men they shall be, embracing the per∣swasion of the devil, the sweetnesse of sin, a soft a••d delicate life; and a certain fulnesse and abundance of all worldly things, though it be to their own eternal damnation: and all these things shall manifestly appear to be in them, and they shall every day wax•• more wicked, and that with mindes more and more obdurate.
But, when as once their crafty conveyances shall be found out & all their other wickedness, then shal their large gif••s cease, and they shall go from house like hunger-bitten and m••d dogs, looking down upon the earth, and drawing in their necks like doves, and all to get their fill of bread.
Then shall the people pursue them with this out-cry, Wo be unto you miserable wretches, that are ordeined to sorrow; the the world hath deceived you, the devil hath guided you with his reines hitherto, your flesh is frail, your heart is altogether without wit, graces or wisedom, your mindes are unstable and wavering, and your eies are blinded with much vanity and fol∣ly, your idle bellies have lusted after delicate d••shes of meat, and your feet have been swift to wickednesse.
Remember the time when you were in fight happy, yet pri∣vily envious; p••or abroad, but rich at home; courteous in shew, but great flatterers indeed; unfaithfull, treacherous, per∣verse, back-biters, holy hypocrites, supplanters of the trueth, immoderately just, proud, unchaste, unconstant teachers, deli∣cate martyrs, gain-thirsty confessors; gentle, but yet slander∣ers; religious, but yet covetous; humble, but yet proud; mercifull, but yet impudent lyars; pleasant fla terers, peace-ma∣king persecutors, oppressors of the poor, bringers in of men-sects devised by your selves; min that were counted mercifull, but are found out to be wicked wretches, lovers of the world, conjurers, drunkards, ambitious, patrones of wicked facts, the polers and pillers of the whole world; unsatiable preachers, that