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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

the reading of the holy Scriptures that is to say to learn faith euen faith in Christe who is our life and saluation To that very end did Iohn the Apostle stretch foorth all his whole story of the Gospel while concluding the same he sayeth These things are written to the intent ye might beleeue that Iesus is Christe the sonne of God and that beleeuing yee might haue life in his name Consequently the Apostle procéedeth with a short praise The praise of holy Scripture but yet notable comprehending many thinges and therfore worthy to be remembered to commend vnto vs the Canonicall Scriptures not somuch to prooue them to suffise to the learning and attaynment of saluation as with them to glue fast togither the mindes of all men while we all vnderstand that there remaineth vtterly no whit of sound profitable wholesome and necessary doctrin but the same is handled and taught moste perfectly in the holy Scriptures Therfore Paule the Apostle pronounceth and sayeth All Scriptures giuen by inspiration of God are profitable to teach c. And hée plainly sayeth All Scriptures For if thou shalt diligently read and consider euery of the Bookes of holy Scripture bée they neuer so short thou shalt finde in euery of them all these things that are héer recited that is to say that euery one of them is able to teach to reprooue to amend and to instruct But very skilfully he addeth Theopneustos giuen by the inspiration of God The Scripture is giuen by the inspr●tion of God For there be extant euery where authors and bookes innumerable béeing not inspired of God but set foorth by the wil of man with the which wee haue héer nothing to doo For the holy bookes haue this thing proper and pecul●ar to them selues alone namely that they be giuen by inspiration of God as I haue all ready said a little before And Peter also the Apostle testifieth saying No prophecy of the Scriptures hath any priuat interpretation 2. Peter 1. For the Scripture came neuer by the wil of man but holy men of God spake as they were mooued by the holy Ghoste And in this point are all our Canonicall or holy Books discerned from the vnholy and prophane books of all other wise men And it is a principle of our religion and of our faith namely that the Scriptures are giuen by the Inspiration of God Wherby it commeth to passe that this saying is very often read in the prophets Thus saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord god of hosts Moste truely therfore Iosephus albeit he was a Iew speaking of the Books of the olde Testament against Appio Alexandrinus in his first Booke sayeth thus Wee haue no infinit number of Bookes amongst vs dissagreeing and repugnaunt one to another but only xxij books wherin is regestred all the whole time to the whiche we iustly giue credit For it is manifest by our dooings how we beleeue our owne writings For in all these many hundred yeeres past no man hath presumed either to adde or to take away or to chaunge any thing For it is implanted in to all the Iewes euen from their cradles to talke of these holy decrees and stedfastly to dwel in them and also if need require willingly to dye for the same With good cause therfore doo wée beléeue our books of the two Testaments without gainsaying and curious search or busie enquiry It suffiseth whatsoeuer the holy Scriptures shall say vnto vs if we rightly vnderstand the same For néed wée must beléeue it The profit of the holy Sciptures But now let vs heare to what vses the holy Scripture is profitable The Apostle recoueth vp iiij kindes and vnder them he comprehendeth all other the like For it is moste certain that there is nothing wanting in the holy Scriptures namely whatsoeuer it bée that séemeth to appertain to moste perfect wisdome and doctrine And first he saith That the Scripture giuen by the inspiration of God The Scripture teacheth is profitable to teach For indeed to vnderstand the true doctrine and wisdome it behooueth vs first of all to haue the right knowledge of things to the intent we may perceiue what and of what kinde euery thing is and so what God is what his wil is what he requireth of vs what we ought to doo and what we ought to leaue vndoon what the dutie is of the true worshipper of God what man is and what kinde of one he is what was his corruption and fall and what was his setting vp again what is the saluation of man in whom it consisteth and how they may obtain the same who is Christe what his redemption is how far it extendeth But there are infinite other such like things all which for so much as is sufficient vnto godlines and pietie the Canonicall Scripture dooth declare vnto vs and teach vs. Wherby we read in the Gospel that our Lord béeing so often demaunded how we should be saued what we shoulde doo to enter in to the kingdome of God which be the cheefest commaundements of God what our dutie requireth wherwith God is moste chéefly delighted did alwaies after one sorte make answere out of the holy Scripture and sent vs back to the holy Scripture The rich glutton béeing in Hel desiring to come out from thence and to teach and giue warning to his brethern Luke 16. he sendeth him back to the Lawe and to the Prophets that is to say all the faithful that desire to be instructed touching the iudgements of God and the state of Soules in another world he sendeth them back not vnto Ghostes or vnto spirits appéering in mānes shape but vnto the Scriptures Wheruppon Paule wrat vnto the Romaines Rom. 15 VVhatsoeuer things haue been written they were written for our lerning Let vs therfore take the necessary rules of our religion out of the scriptures And those things that are not taught in the Scriptures let vs not think them to be either necessary or holesome for vs. Moreouer in true wisdome it is requisit that wée bee taught nothing but that onely which is true and good and yet that wee shoulde vnderstand also what things are false and so resist the same The Scripture reproueth It foloweth therfore in the woordꝭ of the Apostle that héerin also the Scripture is profitable Pros elenchon that is to say reproouing and to the conuiction and confutation of falshod finally to blaming to accusing and to sharp rebuking Therfore if any false Iugler or crafty deceiuer bring in an opinion vntrue and vngodly Heresies or confuted by the Scripture if hée corrupt the pure vnderstanding of the woord foorthwith the Scriptures ministreth holy arguments with which the godly may confute such a false deceiuer And after that sorte wée sée our Lord Iesus to haue doon in the Gospel who as often as either the Pharises or els the Saduces were to be confuted with the Swoord of the Scripture slew their false opinions

called holy because they are vttered by the holy Ghoste It foloweth therfore in the woords of the Apostle And for that also thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures from a childe The holy fathers in olde time were w●nt to instruct their children out of the authenticall Booke of the lawe of God and of his Prophets Therfore because Timothes mother was a Iew borne albeit his Father was a Gentil he béeing exercised in the scriptures from a childe had accustomed him self therunto And when he heard the Apostle preache the Gospel of Christe hee vnderstoode straightway by the inspiration of the spirit of God and by conferring of the woords of Paule with the woords of the Prophets that the Apostles doctrine touching Christe was taken out of the law and the Prophets and confirmed by the testimonyes of the same And for that cause he knew that he had not learned the faith of Christe out of wandering rumours and vain talks of the people but out of the autenticall Booke that is to say out of the holy Scriptures namely inspired from God as I haue already declared and deuoutly taught and written touching things moste pure of all other by none but by such as were moste holy men All other books that where out of the Canon and common vse of the Church are accounted vnder the name of prophane Books But this is an effectuall reason and such a one as ought throughly to mooue the mindes of all men that we must therfore beléeue the Apostles doctrin and cleue only to the same because it proceded from God and is confirmed by the Authenticall Scriptures béeing moste ancient and moste holy of all other What so euer booke of what so euer Authors thou shalt compare with these Books thou shalt scarcely compare Lead or durt it self with moste fine and shining Golde Moste rightly therfore doo we beléeue that they of all men be moste foolish who either omitting the Apostles doctrin and writings of the Prophets turn aside to the inuentions of man as though there could be taught or contayned in these more absolute more cléere and more certain things then in the other or else vtterly giue no credit at all vnto the Scriptures The taunt which our Lord gaue to the vnbeléeuing disciples is right notable and woorthy of speciall remembrance Luke 24. when he said O ye fooles and slovv of hart to beleeue all those things vvhich the Prophets haue spoken The Scripture is able to make a man wise vnto saluation And now ensueth in the Apostle another reason no lesse euident why we ought only to beleue and stick fast to the Apostles doctrin and to the holy Scriptures Because saith he they are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith in christe Iesu The Philosophers haue disputed much of true and false Wisdome True wisdome and haue so entangled them selues with their chattering that they scarcely vnderstād them selues and muche lesse reaped any frute of their disputations Paule dooth simply and truely deriue true Wisdome out of the Scriptures of God and out of the Apostles doctrine For God béeing moste excellent wise dooth very often in his woord call his commaundements and the doctrine set foorth in his lawe and by the Prophets true Wisdome And Moyses béeing elder then those men whom the Gretians call moste ancient namely Homer and Hesiodus and the Battel of Troy and also béeing much more excellent then Hercules Museus Linus Orpheus Mercurius Apollo and the other Gods of the Gentiles or then euen the holy Soothsayers elder also then the wise men of Greece Much more ancient then Plato and Aristotle dooth expresly say in Deuteronomy Deu. 4. You shall keep and doo the commaundements of the Lord for this is your wisdome and vnderstanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these ordinances and shall say This people only is wise and hath vnderstanding a famous Nation But the Apostles also at this present dooth shew that saluation is the end and also the frute of true wisdō saying VVhich are able to make thee wise vnto saluation But without the true saluation of man what shall auaile I pray you the empty name and vain title of wisedome Wisdome is the knoweledge of things diuine and humain and moste chéefely of those things by which we may knowe the highest good euen God him self and therwithall to be ioyned togither with Christe The which indeed is true blessednes and the highest felicitie And now I omit to rehearse how that out of this knowledge of God springeth righteousnesse and the looue and exercise of true vertue and of all deeds that are truely good But the Scripture and doctrine of the Apostles abundantly suffiseth to giue this Wisdome and true saluation Therfore it becommeth vs to content our selues with the same Yea it is expedient for vs to bestowe all our life and all our labour vppon those holy books to depend wholly vppon them to direct all our saylings and all our waies by the same as by a moste infallible and moste sure l●de Starre to run and flée wholy vnto them as to a moste safe Sanctuary For Dauid cryeth out and witnesseth saying Blessed is the man that delighteth in the lawe of the Lord Psal 1. and ernestly studieth in the same bothe day and night Luke 11. For the Lord sayeth also in the Gospel Blessed are they that hear the woord of God and keepe the same And in deed this shal be the onely and safest way to escape all perils of al times and all deceits and legerdemain yea euen the moste sharp and cruel of this our last age But because saluation might be hoped for by this heauenly wisdome and also by the reading and bare knoweledge of the holy Scriptures or els by the merits of the vertues whiche we haue learned out of the Scriptures therfore in déed very godly and Apostolikely he addeth and sayth Saluation cōmeth by faith in Christe Through faith in Christe Iesu Therfore saluation is learned out of the Scriptures because it consisteth in Christe alone And Christe who is the bread of life the saluation and fulnes of the Saints dooth onely and alone giue true saluation But true faith béeing instructed by the spirite of God and by the holy Scriptures receiueth the same Saluation therfore is to be attributed vnto faith not to any other thing but yet not to euery faith but only vnto the same that commeth vnto vs by the grace and benefit of the holy spirit the which we lerne out of the Scriptures the true wisdome of God which extendeth and is staied vpon the a●only sonne of God who is our onely moste absolute most assured and eternal righteousnes redemption satisfaction sanctification life and fulnes But The end ●●●ft of the Scriptures as soon as the Apostle hath expounded these things very elegantly and plainly he sheweth what is the end and mark to the which we must direct all

yéeres and half a yéere in which Antichriste should rain and then afterward should be quite abolished But the doctrine of the Gospel is repugnant to that interpretation which constantly affirmeth that the day of iudgement is knowen vnto no man And Daniel also in the self same chapter saith that the beast shall rage vntil the seats be prepared that is euen vntil the day of iudgement And that he shall then be thrown down hedlong in to the déep pit of Hel and also that the faithful shal be deliuered and glorified who haue for Christes cause sustained all kindes of punishments Verily Paule agréeing with Daniel VVhom our Lord saith he shall put away with the brightnesse of his comming But who can certainly declare vnto vs the time of Christes comming that is the day of Iudgement But hée which shall say that Antichriste shall reign iij. yéeres and a half and straight wayes after be abolished may seeme to declare it plainly For the end of Antichristes kingdome is the very last day of the finall Iudgement Therfore by that dark kinde of speaking no time certain is appointed But rather the godly are admonished of patience and long suffering and that we should not ouer curiously séeke out the very moment of this time but rather refer it vnto Christe who saieth in an other place vnto his Disciples It belongeth not to you to knowe the times and moments of times which the father hath reserued vnto him self But vvatch ye that when your Lord shall come he may finde you vvaking After these things Daniel moste plentifully witnesseth that the world shal be at an end and that the day of iudgemēt shall certainly come and throwe down Antichriste in to Hel. Vpon which treatise Christ our Lord hath set foorth a large Commentary and an exposition by the hands of Iohn his Apostle in the xix and xx chapters of the Apocalips the which I leaue vnto your diligence to be serched out and for brevities sake I doo not ouer busily sift out this matter The conclusion And now I suppose it appéereth vnto you by the moste cleere doctrine of Iesus Christe our Lord and also by the euident sayings of the moste holy Prophets of God and by the plain interpretation of the moste select and chosen Apostles of Christe Finally the manifest comparison of the things them selues which partely the Histories doo testifie to haue béen doon a long time agoe and partly we sée them dayly come to passe before oure eyes that the Prophecyes of the last time are now all ready fulfilled and that therfore the day of our Lord is at hand and our redemption approcheth néere Wherby I think you all doo vnderstand that your duties require you to admonish to exhorte and instantly to call vppō and vrge the faithful to watch and lift vp their heads shaking away all drowsines And that they looke for none other signes nor other times but to beleeue the Gospel the Prophets and Apostles and the very things them selues apparent before the eyes of all men and also that they wait not for any other Antichriste to come but to take now good héed to them selues of him that is now presently reigning and troubling all things to flée vnto Christe Iesus who is the fulnes of the faithful and in him to séek all things pertaining to our saluation to depend wholy vppon his mouth and vppon his help to haue respect vnto him alone to depart from all vncleannesse to liue godly and honestly and moste chéefly to beware of vngodly securitie and careles negligence and also of drunkennesse bothe spirituall and corporall that when the Iudge our Lord Iesus Christe shall appéere in the clouds of Heauen with great power and glory we may ioyfully be taken vp in to the aire to meet him and so alwaies liue with our Lord. To whom be glory for euer FINIS ¶ THE SECOND Sermon of Henry Bullinger teaching by the woords of the Apostle 2. Timothe 3. after what sorte the godly may auoid the harms of the moste perillous daungers in this our last age RIght notable is the place of the Apostle Paule which in the latter epistle to Timothe and the third Chapter is woord by woord after this sort But perseuer thou in those things which thou hast learned and vvhich haue been committed vnto thee knowing of vvhom thou hast learned them and for that also thou hast knowen holy Scriptures from a childe vvhich are able to make thee vvise vnto saluation through faith in Christe Iesu For all Scriptures giuen by inspiratiō of God are profitable to teach to reprooue to amend to instruct in rightuousnesse that the mā of God may be perfet preparad to all good vvorks The Scriptures set foorth euen to our eyes The bountiful goodnes of God toward mankinde shineth foorth in many things but moste chéefly in that that he hath so measured the doctrin of our saluation which he committed to the world by moste excellent men that it is agréeable not onely to the same time in which it was first set foorth by the prophets and Apostles but vnto vs also vppon whom the ends of the worlde are come And truely all the moste holy cumpany of the Prophets and Apostles with one consent doo testifie that the last times shal be of all other moste perillus They doo moste diligently and copiously not onely describe those daungers but also set them foorth before our eyes to be seene to that end no dout that the godly should not be entangled and perish in euil and in perils The argument and drift of the matter Of that number is Paule the vessel of election who at this present procéeding in moste godly order dooth first of all very diligently showe foorth the daungers of this our last age Afterward hée declareth a remedy wherby the godly may escape the harmes therof The thing is not onely elegant notable and wholesome but also very necessary moste chéefly for vs and our time Therfore haue I chosen this place to entreat of now before you ye honorable fathers and bretheren moste déerly beloued in our Lord that beeing instructed with the doctrin of the Apostles we may through the spirite of God be strengthened in true godlinesse and he able to deliuer out of daungers the flock of our Lord committed to our charge the Lord blessing our labours Our Lord assist vs with his grace and direct vs alwaies in the way of saluation But The description of the euil acts daungers recited in the Scriptures like as the Phisitions in their books doo moste diligently describe euen such diseases as are moste filthy not to the intent to praise and commend them or els allow them but to th'nd they may be exactly knowne and the more perfectly cured so the Scripture in this present place infinite others doth moste manifestly reherse mischeuous deeds euen such as are to be abhorred and not to be named without sir reuerence not to the

and interpretation Therfore are they moste foolish who think that hereticks cannot be ouer come by the Scriptures onely but that rather they are to be conuinced by councels and decrées of councelles or els by cursings For we finde that Paule the Apostle also in the acts of the Apostles did with stand and ouercome bothe the rebellious Iewes and also all the enemies of the Gospel with none other weapons then of the Scriptures And very well and in good time commeth héere to my remembrance a noble sentence of Saint Augustines which he vseth againste Maximinus the Arrian Heretick in his third Book and faith But now neither I ought to alledge the councel of Nice neither thou the councel of Ariminū as therby to obtaine the victory And neither I nor thou to be bound to the authoritie of this man or that man But by the authoritie of the Scriptures beeing witnesses not proper to any but common and indifferent to vs bothe let matter with matter cause with cause and reason with reason contend togither You sée therfore how Saint Augustines iudgement was that the detestable heresie of Arrius could be confuted by the Scriptures and not by councels But now at this day we haue the self same Scriptures What should set therfore but that we may with the Scriptures strongly conuince all errors and heresies whatsoeuer at what soeuer time they spring vp For the Apostle had said that the Scripture is méer for confutation Furthermore if there be any thing corrupted in the Church as many times the moste excellent ordinances of God are peruerted either by the rashnes The Scripure amendeth and reformeth or the superstition or the foolishnes of man it is necessary to be amended It foloweth therfore in the Apostle that héer also the Scripture is requisit Pros epanothosin that is to renew and as I may so say to make straight and amend The holy histories setteth foorth vnto vs in many and sundry places the vse and example of that thing For as often as the sinceritie and purenesse of Religion was defiled by the negligence wickednes ignorance and couetousnesse of the Rulers and the préests and then by God were sent Prophets and Kings to amend the errors that were generally receiued we read that they did none otherwise reforme and correct the Churche then acording to the form and rule of the diuine Scriptures The holy story of Iosaphat Ezechias and Iosias wel inough knowen And also our Lord Iesus with holy Scripture correcteth the vices of his time corrupting holy Matrimonie He also purging the Temple of Ierusalem through the couetousnes of the préests filthily conuerted in to a market place dooth euen of his owne accorde bring foorth scriptures and sayeth It is written my house shal be called the house of prayer but ye haue made it a den for theeues Moreouer it behooueth them that are taught and reformed aright The Scripture kepeth vs in order to be kept vnder the rule of discipline and good order lest at any time they doo vnchristianly and vnshamefastly wax dissolute and carelesse Paule therfore dooth shewe that not somuche as in this behalfe also any thing can be lacking in holy Scripture For it is profitable saith hée Pros paideian that is vnto discipline and chastisement Zuor ziichtigung vnmeister scafft For it ministreth the perfect rules of life and sheweth sharp chastisements In d●●d from thence did Esdras Nehemias fetch the right Discipline From ●●ence did the Apostle fetch his doctrine as often as he reprooued the Churches that went a●ray into error whome he ●●adeth into the way again and kéepeth them in order with the Scriptures What soeuer rules of life the Apostle prescribeth to euery degree euery kinde and to euery age the same he fetcheth out of the Scriptures Finally the holy Scripture dooth teache and instruct vs in all things in which we haue any néed of teaching or instruction The same dooth reprooue rebuke accuse drawe foorth conuince refute all kindes of errors heresies The same correcteth amēdeth reformeth and finally keepeth vs vnder h●l● discipline lest we should wax ●●●s● and run at ryot and it is a moste perfect Canon and a moste sure and infallible rule of holy life and true saluation Therfore why should not the same suffise in the Church to gouern the men of this last age and to deliuer them from all corruptions Neither is there any cause why we shoulde take vnto vs the rules that is to say the reuoltings and Apostacies of the Munks There is no cause why we should beg or borow these things necessary to saluation els where out of the stinking puddles of men and out of the counterfet traditions and decrees of men The Fountain of liuing water is set foorth and laid open vnto vs of God But all those partes of godly wisdome and of christian doctrine The drift of the wisedome and doctrin of God are directed to a certain and an onely end and mark which the apostle addeth and sayeth In rightuousnesse But wee knowe that Christe is the righteousnes of the faithful To this end therfore all these things doo partain namely that Christe may liue in vs and we in him that he reconciling vs to God may take away our vnrightuousnesse and so giue his rightuousnesse vnto vs and that he may be our rightuousnesse before God the Father through whome afterwarde wée might walk in rightuousnes during our whole life with continuall repentance For as I haue shewed alredy this is the only end and scope of the whole Scriptures But neuerthelesse the purpose and meaning of the Apostles woords remainethe as yet vnperfet For the Apostle hath said All Scripture giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to reprooue to amend to instruct in rightuousnes It foloweth that hée must make an end of the sentence and finish the matter That the man of God may be made perfect The Scripture fashioneth maketh perfect the true worshippers of god prepared vnto all good woorks All the partes of this doctrin saith hée doo tend to this end and doo woork this effect that he which wil be a faithful and perfect seruaunt of God may want nothing therunto but may obtain by the instruction of the Scriptures to be made perfect and prepared to euery good woork Let vs note wel in these woords of the Apostle yée reuerend Fathers and déer bretheren how that vnto the Scripture is manifestly attributed a moste absolute perfection against the madnes and furies of all men yea against the raging blasphemies of those that falsely affirm the same to be vnperfect and maimed and therfore méet to be patched vp with the rags of the traditions and decrées of the Church That the man of God saith Paule may be made Perfet Perfet I say Artios whole sounde absolute in all pointes and such a one as lacketh nothing at all What is it therfore that is néedful to be mended by these traditioners Moreouer he addeth