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A06525	A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our dayes made by the right reuerend father and faithfull seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther ; concerning the comming of our Sauior Christ to Iudgement and the signes that go before the Last Day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospell appointed to be red in the church on the second Sonday in Aduent ; and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certaine notes in the margent.	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1570 (1570)	STC 16997.5; ESTC S2800	32,573	96

could be no more sene THese few examples I haue here added in the end of the Sermon to let men see that before great alterations or channges of kyngdomes and common weales God sendeth wonderfull tokens therof to signifie the same before it come to passe whereby with Martin Luther the author of this Sermon we may well conclude that before the alteration of the whole world which is the last day he will send many signes and tokens therof which he sheweth for the most part to be already fulfilled and therefore the end of all thynges is now to bee looked for bycause there hath happened of late dayes many wonderfull Eclipses or darkenyngs of the Sunne and Moone many Sunnes haue bene sene at one tyme many rayne bowes many terrible blasyng Starres and other straūge sightes of fire in the ayre many great tempestes of wyndes with flouds and earth quakes which haue destroyed and ouerflowē both Cities and whole countreyes Wherof here might be added diuers examples both of such as happened before Luther did write this Sermon as also since that tyme But they are almost innumerable and haue bene partly sene with our owne eyes and are at large set out in Print by Conraedus Gesnerus Marcus Fritschius and others who haue written no small bookes of such wonderful and straūge thynges as by the prouidence of almighty God haue happened before tyme to this end that we seyng these thynges come to passe forespoken by our Sauiour might the more diligently watch for hys commyng least we folowyng the example of the lewde seruaunt leade a carelesse lyfe in all kynde of wickednes and he commyng vpon vs vnwares geue vs our portion with hypocrites and dissemblers in euerlastyng fire prepared for the deuill and hys aungels God graunt vs therfore to watch for the commyng of our Sauiour that we beyng prepared with oyle in our Lampes he may take vs with hym vnto euerlastyng●…lyfe Amen Esay 65. 17. and. 66. 22. 2. Thes. 2. 3 Mat. 20. 1. Mat. 20. 6. Math. 24. 49. Mat. 25. 4 Actes 17. ●…1 The effect of the Gospel ▪ and the cause why it was written Signes be fore y last day proued by humane reasō groū ded vpon a certayne truth Rom. 15. 4 Example hereof are the inhabitantes of Hierus●… ▪ before whose destruction God sent most horrible tokens thereof Whereof som they re garded not ▪ some they enterpreted to signifie victory ouer theyr enemies cōtrary to the true meanyng of them and of God which sent them ▪ and contrary to the expresse wordes of our Sauiour which before had foretold them Luke 14. 43 The faithful haue no more cause to feare the signes of y last day the Noe had when the flud came ▪ or Lot at y destruction of ●…odome Go●…orra which s●… company of them that then were preserued is a signe of the little flock which goeth by the narrow gate Math. 14. Math. 24. 29. Prou. 17. 22. Reade that discouery of the Spa nish Inqui sitiō for the further declaration of these wordes Gene. 4. 8. ●…e ●…7 41. Exod. 1. 15 1. Sam. 19 11. and. 1. Reg. 18. 13. and. 19. 2. Math. 2. 16 God●… king ●…oure as it ●… takē for the whole world can ●…t be enlarged but ●…s it is taken for the congregation of the Christians when hys worde is truly preached so it may and is dayly enlarged 1. Cor. 15. 19. Apoc. 22 ▪ 20. Unto this place apper tayneth the hystory of of y Emperour Char les the v. of that name who the yeare of our Lord. 1521. sēt for Luther vnto Wormes a Citie in Germany by an Herauld of armes with letters of safe cōduct to whom hee came boldly although some persuaded hym that hee should neuer haue come from thēce alyue There he was examined before the Emperours Ma●…esty of y bokes that he had wri●…tē and whether he would recāt them or any thyng in them contained Who aunswered that he would ●…cant so much as any mā was able to proue false by the worde of GOD otherwise he would deny nothyng that hee had written After a while when no other aunswere could be gottē of him ▪ the Emperour gaue hym leaue to departs without daūger bycause of his safe conduct a●… though many laboured to the contrary especially the Popes Embassadour as in the booke of y Actes and Mon●… mēts more playnly is declared Esay 4. 11 Psal. 146. 3. Psal. 33. 10 Prou. 21. 1●… The ●…romise of God is the ground of true fayth which promise was thoro●…ly ●…oted in Luthers hart as ap peareth eu●… dently by his words The secō●… part of the Sermon Christes 〈◊〉 ●…araphastically expounded ●… Cor. ●… 9. The difference betwene the prognos●…ication of Christ and Astrono●… Certain similitudes whereby it is declared with what ioy wee ought to looke for y commyng of ou●… Sauiour to Iudgement Math. 27. 34. The commoditie of affliction in this world Mat. 24. 30. 1. Thes. ●… 3 Math. 24. 27. 1. Cor. 15. 52. This saying of the wicked is after a sorte true For the good preacher may bee a cause of trouble first bycause where y word of GOD is sincerelye preached the deuill moueth and rayseth tumultes to suppresse it secondly where it is preached and not obeyed the greater shall bee the plagues of the stubburne and stiffenecked people Mat. 6. 10 Mat. 6. 13. The Adder as they say euery spryng of purpose ▪ wresting him selfe thorow a narrow place lea●…eth hys olde skynne behynd him as it were leauyng of his old coate ▪ and putting on a new one This is a a true saying that we can not pray faythfully nor beleue in god a right excepte we ioyfully ●…ooke for commyng of our Sauiour to iudgemēt Mat. 24. 30. and. 25. ●…1 Act. 1 ▪ 11. 10. 42. 17. 30. 2. ●…im 4. 1. Pet. 4. 5. Esay ●…6 19. Ezec. 37. 5. Iob. 19. 26. Mat ▪ 12. 42. Ma●… 12. 25. Luc. 14. 14. Ioan. 11. 24. Luc. 321. 1. Cor. 15. 12. Colos 3. 4. 1. Thes. ●… 14. Ioan. 3. 36 5. 2. ▪ Rom 6. 33. Dan. 12. 2. Mat. 19. ●…9 and 25. 45. Ioan. 3 15. and 4. 1●… 36. Ioan. 6. 27. and 40. and 47. and 54. Ioan. ●…0 28. and 12. 15. and 50. and 17. 2. Act. 1●… 46 48. Rom. 2. 7 ▪ and 5. ●…1 and 6. 22 Gal. 6. 8. Tit. ●… 2. and 3. 4. 1. Cim 1. 16. and 6. 12. 1. Ioan. 1. 2. and 2. 25. and 5. 11 ▪ and 13. and ●…0 Iude Epist. ●…1 M●… ●… ▪ 16. Exod. 20. 2 Gal. 3. 24. Mat. 6. 9. Apoc. 6. 10. The Saintes of God do not require vengeance of theyr enemyes bycause of priuate hatred but bycause they know thē to be Gods enemyes and do rage with deuelishe fury agaynst his holy Church and agaynst hys euerlastyng truth And in this case the loue of our neighbour hath no place where it is repugnant to the loue of god whose glory we ought to perferre before the commodities of all the world Therfore when man is such an enemye vnto GOD that we must needes hate the one and loue y other we must loue God hate man Psal. 139. 21. and in Gods cause pray for the destruction of man Ier. 18. 11 ver 21. as agaynst the enemy of GOD vppon a zeale and feruēt loue of Gods glory especially if they be such as we perceaue offende not of ignoraunce but of malicious stubburnes and that agaynst theyr cōsciēce But in our own cause as they are iniurious vnto our own persō we must rather pray for man then agaynst mā as we are taught by the exāple of our Sauiour and Steuen Act. 7. 60. He●… 4. 3. Gen. 3. 15. Reuel 13. 8 Ioan 1. 2●… 1. Pet. 1 ▪ 19 Ro. 16. 25. Ephes ▪ 3. 9. Colos. 1 26 2. Timo. 1. 10. Tit. 1. 2. ●…it 2. 13. Math. 10. 32. Mat. 10. 38 Rom. 8. 17 2. Tim. 3. 12. Math. 10. 25. Ioan. 16. 2 and. 33. Math. 24. 48. 1. Thes. 4. 17. 1. Cor. 15. 32. Ioā 14. 27 Iob. 1. 17. Rom. 8. 11. Ioā 7. 38 Act. 9. 31. Rom. 5. 3. and. 10. 17. 1●… 14. 5. 1. Lor. 2. 10 1. Lor. 5. 7 2. Cor. 5. ●… 〈◊〉 6. 15 Eph. 4. 24 That is best which is new vnto the world but old vnto God. Colos. 3. 9 Collos. 2. 8 Heb. 11. 1 1. Pet. 1. 12 Rom. 8. 22 A mynde speach attributed to creatures without lyse Esa. ●…4 23. and not properly but figuratiuely ▪ as whē we say the earth doth prayse the Lord that is to say it doth declare hys wonderous workes and the workemanshyp therof ministreth a man matter to prayse the Lord so it desireth y last day that is to say it being accursed dayly more and more for our synne sheweth our miserable estate and what cause we haue to ●…ament and to desire our deliueraūce by the cōmyng of our sauiour to iudgemēt 2. Pet. 3. 13 Apoc. 2●… 1. Esa. 65. 17. and. 66. 22. Here an age may be taken for the space of two thousand yeares whereof there are but thre in all the world one frō the beginning of the world vnto the law the secōd frō the law vnto the cōmyng of our Sauiour and the last from the commyng of our Sauiour vnto the ende of the world which shal be shortened But how much it is vncertain Phil. 3. 20 Collos. 3. 3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. * Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegi●… Regi●… Maiestatis 2570.

¶ A very Comfortable and necessary Sermon in these our dayes made by the right reuerend father and faithfull seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther concerning the comming of our Sauior Christ to iudgement and the signes that go before the last day Which Sermon is an exposition of the Gospell appointed to be red in the Church on the second Sonday in Aduent and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certaine notes in the margent Act. 17. 30. ¶ Now God admonisheth all men euery where to repent because he hath appointed a day in the which he will iudge the world in righteousnes by that man whom he hath appointed whereof he hath geuen an assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead 2. Pet. 3. 3. THis first vnderstand that there shall come in the last daies mockers which will walke after their lustes and say where is the promisse of his commyng for since the fathers dyed all thynges continue a like from the begynning of the creation For this they willingly know not that the heauens were of olde and the earth that was of the water and by the water through the word of god Wherfore the world that then was perished ouerflowed with the water But the heauens and earth which are now are kept by the same word in store and reserued vnto fire agaynst the day of iudgement and of the destructiō of vngodly men Dearely beloued be not ignorant of this one thyng that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeare as one day The Lord is not slacke concernyng hys promes as some men count slackenes but is pacient toward vs would haue no man to perish but would all men to come to repētaunce But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse and the elementes shal melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shal be burnt vp Seyng therfore that all these thynges must be dissolued what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlynes Lookyng for and hastyng vnto the commyng of the day of God by the which the heauens beyng on fire shal be dissolued and the elementes shall melt with heate But we looke for new heauens and a new earth accordyng to hys promes wherein dwelleth righteousnes Wherefore beloued seyng that ye looke for such thynges be diligent that ye may be founde of him in peace without spot and blameles ¶ To all the inhabitauntes of England and other els where that vnderstand the English toung the translator whisheth true knowledge of God contained in his word which is lyfe euerlastyng BEfore tyme not many yeares since dearely beloued brethren countreymen the Disciples of Antichrist and Apostles of Sathan for the establishyng of their Lordes kyngdome knowyng that the cōtinuance therof was the increase of their owne estimatiō wealth and pleasure in this world haue deuised many politicke practises so wicked and so deuilish that whosoeuer beholdeth them well shall soone perceaue they were not inuented without the counsayle of their Lord and master Wherof this was the first and chief and as I may say the ground of the residue to keepe all men both Princes and their subiectes in ignoraunce of God hys word that they not knowyng the truth might the more casely be brought into all kynd of deuilish heresies that they not vnderstanding vice should not be able to reprehēd the horrible wickednes of Antichrist and hys ministers To this end they haue restrayned all the laity throughout Christendome from readyng the Scriptures and haue forbydden them to be Printed in their vulgare tounges an din stede thereof haue geuen them to occupie theyr braynes withall fables of Robin Hood of Gie of Warrike of Geuis of Hampton of the Knightes of the round table of the iiij sonnes of Amō filthy tales Chaucer the Court of Uenus most horrible blasphemous lyes out of Saintes Legendes and such lyke Wherby men beyng drowned in ignoraūce and detestable heresies haue bene cast downe headlong into the most miserable pit of hell But now it hath pleased almighty God towardes the commyng of our Sauiour to Iudgement by the preachyng of hys word through the workyng of hys holy spirite to oppresse the power of Sathan to cut the hornes of Antichrist to reueale the man of sinne Which sittyng in the Temple of God boasteth hym selfe as god Now it hath pleased our Sauiour Christ to diminish the kyngdome of Antichrist to aduaunce his owne kyngdome to deface y Disciples of Antichrist and to glorifie hys owne Disciples He hath driuen out the filthy swyne and wylde bores that haue spoyled hys vineyarde and hath hyred laborers to husband it agayne that it may yeld hym frute now at haruest tyme whē he commeth to receiue the same into hys euerlastyng kyngdome at which tyme hys faythfull seruaūtes shall receiue for their hyre a peece of money that neuer shall fayle and shall eate and drinke the frutes of their labours with hym world without end Therfore it is conuenient and necessary for all Gods labourers that is to say Princes and their Magistrates Prelates and all Ecclesiastical Ministers to labour diligētly in the Lords vineyard to kepe out these swyne which Antichrist hath sent to deuoure it not onely to yoke them but also to set dogges on thē which wil both barcke and plucke of their ●…ares if they enterprise to breake through the hedge and to route vp y vines with theyr deuilishe bookes altogether voyde of Gods word and of reason to euery man that hath any vnderstandyng and knowledge of god To this end by the authority of our soueraigne Lady the Queenes Maiestie in our Realme and other Princes in other Realmes a great number of godly men haue preached diligently other haue written very profitable bookes of Diuinitie both in Latin and in theyr own vulgare toung and diuers haue translated good bookes out of straunge tounges into their owne language husbanding therby the Lordes vineyard and keepyng out the swyne that endeuer to destroy it Amongest whom I beyng one more ready to shew my good will then able to do any great seruice haue chosen this short Sermon of Martin Luther the faythfull seruant of God Grādcapitaine vnder our Sauiour Christ and chief hunter of these wyld bores vnto theyr father the deuill from whēce they were sent to destroy the sincere true worshyp of god This mans Sermon I say concernyng the commyng of our Sauiour to Iudgemēt and the signes that go before the last day I haue chosen to translate into our English toung as that which I thought a most cōuenient labour in this last houre of the day to preserue in the Lordes vineyard the ripe grapes from rottyng and from wild beastes and to hast those that are vnrype agaynst the Lordes