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A04167	Diverse sermons with a short treatise befitting these present times, now first published by Thomas Iackson, Dr in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, and president of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. ...	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1637 (1637)	STC 14307; ESTC S107448	114,882	232

of the Gospell for this solemnity But my text doth not draw mee to a new argument My former argument as yee may remember was concerning the signes of the time And here yee may behold signes of the time in the frontispice of my text There shall bee signes in the sunne and in the moone c. Vpon the earth and in the waters that is in every part of this great and visible booke of the creature But of what or of what times were these signes here foretold To the former part of this question our Evangelist hath made a full answer v. 27 These were signes of the sonne of man's comming to judgement with power and great glory By the sonne of man yee know is meant our Lord and Saviour Christ and his comming was expected by this people one and other Iohn Baptist knew this to be the title of the Messias and out of this Notion or description of his person and office hee being in prison sent two of his disciples unto him with this Embassage Luk 7. v. 19. Art thou hee that should come or are wee to looke for another And from this Embassage of Iohn the next Dominicall or Lords day takes its denomination or right to be enrolled amongst the Dominicalls consecrated to the memory of his comming The Pharisees likewise knew this title of him that was to come to belong unto Christ or unto the great Prophet which God had promised to raise up unto them like to Moses And out of this notion they propound this interrogatory unto Iohn Iohn 1. 21. Art thou Elias art thou that Prophet and againe v. 25. Why baptizest thou then if thou be not that Christ nor Elias neither that Prophet And from Iohn's answer to these interrogatories v. 26. 27. I baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom yee know not hee it is who comming after mee is preferred before me The fourth and last Dominicall takes its denomination or right to bee enrolled amongst the dayes consecrated to the memory of his comming The Dominicall or Lords day last past takes its denomination from the Gospell appointed for that day Behold o Sion thy King commeth c. So doth this present day or second sunday in Advent take this title from that clause of the Gospell v. 27. And then they shall see the sonne of man comming in a cloud Now the comming of Christ the sonne of man and the sonne of God admits in the generall two degrees The first his comming in humility to visit and redeeme the world The second his comming in power and glory to judge the world The Gospells appointed by the Church for the three other Dominicalls or Lords dayes in Advent referre to the first manner of his comming to wit in humility to visit and redeeme his people The Gospell appointed for this present day points at his comming in power and glory to judge the world The question then is whether this prophecy hath beene in any sort already fulfil'd or in what sort it shall bee hereafter fulfil'd or accomplished or if this prophecy were twice to be fulfil'd the question is whether these signes here mentioned in my text doe concerne as well the last fulfilling of it as the first That this prophecy hath been already litterally fulfil'd is cleere from the 21. and 32. verses of this Chapter Verily I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all be fulfil'd All what All that he had said concerning the signes of the time so S. Matthew expresseth our Saviour's meaning more fully then S. Luke doth Math. 24. v. 34. Verily I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled that is till the terrors of those times wherof he speakes untill the signes of these times in the sunne in the moone and in the starres should bee exhibited For by this generation hee comprehends that present age or compasse of an hundred yeares taking their beginning either from the time wherein hee uttered this prophecy or from the birth of these his Auditors the greater part whereof were betwixt twenty and fifty yeares and but a few of them to live above fifty yeares after this forewarning so that this age or generation whereof hee speakes was to determine with the life 's of these Auditors though many of them did not yet some of them did and more might have outliv'd these signes here foretold For these signes were to bee exhibited unto the Nations not long after the desolation of Ierusalem as S. Marke tels us Chap. 15. v. 24. But in those dayes after that tribulation the sunne shall bee darkned and the moone shall not give her light and the starres of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken Or least any man should except that the sun might bee darkned after the dayes of Ierusalem's tribulation and sorrow and yet not bee so darkned till the last day S. Matthew hath put in a caveat against this exception Mat. 24. 29. Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the sunne be darkned the moone shall not give her light So that if we can point out the time wherein all that our Saviour said concerning the tribulation of Ierusalem and Iury were fulfilled wee may easily finde out the appointed time wherein the signes in my text were to bee exhibited That which must direct us in the right search of the tribulations precedent to his comming here litterally meant is our Saviour's censure upon his Disciples admiration at the goodly buildings of the Temple As he went out saith S. Matthew 24. 1. and departed from the Temple his Disciples came to him to shew him the buildings of the Temple S. Marke tels us Chap. 13. 1. that one of his Disciples saith unto him master see what manner of stones and what buildings are here And because this one Disciple is not named S. Matthew indefinitely saith his Disciples came unto him A strange humour in them were they one or more for how could they imagine that hee had not observed the goodlinesse of these buildings before But upon what occasion soever they or he one or more of them did move him to view the buildings his reply unto this motion was unexpected For hee saith unto them see you not all these things Verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not bee throwne downe Mat. 24. 2. Mark 13. 2. Luk. 21. 6. And thus much he had told them with weeping eyes before Luk. 19. 44. But it seemes they were at better leasure to hearken unto this second prediction of the Temples destruction than they were before when their eares were filled with the joyfull shouts of Hosanna blessed bee hee that cometh in the name of the Lord. And hence as he sate upon the mount of Olives over against the Temple Peter and Iames and Iohn and Andrew asked him privately tell us when shall these things bee and

degrees that this figtree was the time of their fall and ruine after such forewarnings is not so determinate in respect of us as the time of Ierusalem's and Iudah's ruine after our Saviours death and resurrection were For the time of their ruine was both foretold by the Prophets and prefigured by matter of fact as by their fore-elders wandring forty yeares in the wildernesse and by the forty dayes which after our Saviours resurrection were given them to bethinke themselves better and to make their peace with God as the Ninevites did upon forewarning given them by Ionas But leaving these punctuall or speciall forewarnings wee are to follow the forewarnings here mentioned in the 3. and 4. verses of this Chapter with the like generall signes of times ensuing The province of Galilee had its forewarning in the massacre of these Galileans whose bloud Pilate mingled with the sacrifices The inhabitants of Ierusalem had their particular forewaring likewise in the lamentable disaster of those eighteene upon whom the tower in Siloe fell These Galileans were they many or few did perish in Ierusalem and their disaster for this reason was more publique such as the whole nation of the Iewes could not but take notice of so that both signes put together with the circumstances of the time and place wherein they hapned did portend that the utter ruine of the whole nation should be in Ierusalem It might be true in part which the chiefe Priests and Pharisees had observed Ioh. 7. 52. Serch and looke for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet Nor was our Saviour to whom they apply this observation in particular a Galilean by birth but a neighbour-born unto Ierusalem for he was borne in Bethlehem the city of David But at the time of this great Prophets birth who was to falsifie their observation in respect of future times for he made Peter Iohn and Iames and other Galileans more then Prophets there arose a seditious sect in Galilee which did first oppose the payment of tribute unto Caesar. And all the opposition which this rebellious people made against the Roman empire tooke its originall from Iudas the Gaulonite and his sons And as Galilee was the beginning of woe unto Ierusalem and the Iewish Nation so it was the first in the plagues and woes here denounced For Vespasian being sent to quell this rebellion made his first invasion upon Galilee and tooke in all the cities and principall townes within that province before hee made any assault upon Ierusalem or other cities of Iudas The number of Galileans which perished in that warre was so great that I should hardly believe Iosephus his relations or them unlesse our Saviour had foretold this calamity was to bee nationall and universall for all were to perish besides such as did in time repent which God wote were but a few But had those Galileans no signes of the times besides these forewarnings in my text to disswade them from that desperate warre yes signes they had many and most pregnant which did verifie the literall meaning of our Saviours prophecie signes abundant to instruct them that the Lord had appointed the Romans to rule over them and these signes they had partly before partly after Vespaians comming to manage the warre on the Romans part against them King Agrippa of whom wee read Acts 26. in that excellent oration set downe by Iosephus in his second booke and sixteenth Chapter did forewarne them more like a Prophet than a polititian but these forewarnings concern'd the whole Nation as much as they did Galilee After the invasion made upon Galiles by Vespasian Josephus himselfe who wrote the history of those warres in which he had beene a principall agent tooke warning by the visible signes of the time to yeeld himselfe to the Romans upon the taking of Iotopata But a more feare full forewarning they had in the second taking of Ioppa whither the Galileans had fled in great abundance hoping at least to have escaped the Romans forces by ships if they were not able to defend themselves by land but they found the wind and weather to fight more bitterly against them than the Romans had done The tempest did drive them from the Sea and the Romans from the city Some were swallowed by the waves some killed themselves for feare of being drowned many were dashed against the rocks so that the sea was bloudy and all the shore was covered with dead bodies Such as escaped the Sea were killed by the Romans foure thousand two hundred dead bodies were cast upon the shore lib. 3. Chap. 15. Did the rest of the Galileans take warning by these mens disaster or by the destruction of this and other cities and the generall desolation of their countrey They did in part but to no purpose They saw it was in vaine to defend the cities of Galilee but even the desperate estate hereof they tooke as a signe of the time or as a watch-word to fortify Ierusalem the chiefe city and Metropolis of their Nation This was the city which the Lord had chosen amongst all the cities of Israel to place his name there and God they thought was bound in honour to defend his chosen city Out of this perswasion all the men of warre that were left in Galilee and in other places overrunne by Vespasian did repaire unto Ierusalem and in the issue of this resolution they fulfilled that which our Saviour had foretold that not only the Galileans but the inhabitants of Ierusalem should perish Had those Galileans after despaire of defending their owne cities or strong holds or after they saw Vespsiaan's army bent against Ierusalem fled as our Saviour admonished his followers into the mountaines or dispersed themselves amongst other Nations they might have escaped that butchery which the Romans practised upon them and they upon others of their owne Nation And unlesse they and others of their owne Nation contrary to our Saviour's admonition had floc'kd unto Ierusalem after they had seene it begirt with the Roman forces the Burgesses or inhabitants of that famous city had submitted themselves unto the Romans who were ready to give them better quarter than now one Christian Nation will upon like occasion give another But the inhabitants of that city being over-crowded with the multitude which daily flocked unto them and which they admitted to be partakers with them of the legall sacrifices they became partakers of that vengeance which still pursued the seditious what place soever they made choice of for their refuge Thus by neglecting or contemning the signes of the time which our Saviour had given them the greater part of that Nation more then five to one of such as were then ready to beare armes were first shut upon Ierusalem as in a prison or as so many fatted beasts in a market The Temple afterwards becomming as the slaughter-house or shambles To recount all the miseries which they suffered in the city and in the Temple by the famine and by the