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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

15.13 Jer. 29 10. Dan 9 24. so their Calamity from the time of Daniel unto Christ even so the Captivity of the Church under Antichrist is also limited to a certain set time Revel 17.17 namely 1260 dayes Revel 11.3 Revel 11.2 Revel 13.5 Revel 12.6 which is contemporary and of equall duration with the 42 moneths and the time times and halfe a time or three yeares and a halfe reckoning 30 dayes to a moneth 12 moneths to a yeare By a thousand two hundred and three score dayes in that place is not meant so many naturall dayes Revel 12.6 Ezek. 4.6 but a propheticall day is a yeare as in Ezekiel I have appointed thee each day for a yeare The womans flight into the Wildernesse was presently after that war by which the Dragon was cast out Revel 12.6 7 8 9. and there was no more place found in heaven for him That those 1260 years must not begin as some have thought at the victory of Constantine the Great though he indeed began that Warre because that after his time heathenish Idolatry was again used in publike in the dayes of Julian the Apostate But we must begin that number of * De qua victoria Claudianus ita canit O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether c. Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti yeares at the last victory of that famous Theodosius in his Battell against the Pagans under Eugenius Which Theodosius did root out Satanicall worsh●p so that it never in the same kinde prevailed since his time in Rome And for the time when this Battell was fought as the Romane Histories do not wholly faile us so neither do they so certainly report the time to us as were to be desired For Functius puts the same Battel of Theodosius against Eugenius An. Christi 395. 1260. in the yeare of Christ 398 but yet Calvisius who herein seemes more exact 1655. hath it in the yeare 395 and some doe abate of those years also An Christi 398. 1260. Whereupon some reverend and judicious Divines doe thinke that the downfall of Rome shall be either in the yeare 1658 1658. or before and that it shall not stand longer then that yeare at the most Object To prevent an objection That the conclusion doth too much depend upon humane writings and Chronologies Answ You are to know beloved that all that do open Propheticall Scriptures doe very well to clear the fulfilling of the Prophesies by the true histories of the times to which they do properly belong although but Humane Writers And this practice is also warranted in the Book of Hester Hist 10.2 where the Holy Ghost doth refer the readers of that age unto the Chronicles of the Medes and Persians which were the Civill Annals or Histories writ and kept by those Heathens that there they might reade a more large declaration of those things which were more concisely and briefly related in that Book Titus 1.12 Acts 17.28 so that for amplification and illustration such writings may be used though not for sufficient and single probations of divine truths Use 4 The last Use shall be an Use of Vivification or quickning to revive our languishing spirits which in these sad times are too too ready to give in Lift up I say your heads with joy Luke 21.28 Heb. 12.12 13. the dayes of your consolation are nigh Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make streight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed and as the Apostle Peter exhorteth 1 Pet. 1.13 Gird up the loyns of your minde be sober and hope unto the end In that phrase Gird up he alludes unto the long-side garments which the Jews did wear which if they were not girded up 1 Kings 18 46. did hinder their activity now this he applies metaphorically to the minde which must be girded up but let it be with the girdle of truth sirs and it shall fortifie our slack mindes to these duties Ephes 6.14 To Christian Moderation of spirit concerning sublunarie things an excellent grace in these so doubtfull times Aequa mens tranquilitas mentis usefull it is in prosperity and adversity not being too greedy in getting or keeping the things of this life nor too much fearing the losse of them Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand Phil. 4.5 It should arme us with Patience to undergoe whatsoever God shall call us to suffer in the meane time Me thinks I may safely say we are the last generation that shall dye in the field fighting against Antichrist if we doe not over live him as it may please God many of us may but beasts in the killing when they have the pangs of death on them use to struggle and kick very strongly and so doubtlesse will he do let us therefore with patience wait in hope for the time of his utter destruction for now in the mean time Rom. 8.25 Heb. 10.36 wee have as much need of patience as ever Christians had It should quicken Faith It was a worthy speech and well-becomming a gracious Minister on his death-bed M. Rob. Bolton Psal 27.14 Hold out faith and patience your work will speedily be at an end Remember Davids charge Wait on the Lord Isa 26 22. be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Wait I say on the Lord. Hide you in your chamber Psal 91.1 2. in the secret place of the most High abide under the shadow of the Almighty trust in him make him thy refuge till these calamities be over past Psal 57.1 Psal 37.5 Roll thy way upon the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe It will quicken prayer for the Church of the Jews they long agoe prayed for the Gentile Churches saying Psal 67.1 2. God be mercifull unto us and cause his face to shine upon us Selah That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations Let us requite to our power the labour of the love of their forefathers and consider the fulnesse of the Gentiles also shall come in with them Rom. 11.12 15 which shall be much more riches and as life from the dead to us Gentiles our own joy is wrapt up in theirs And therefore every one of us have good reaspn to pray with that Princely Psalmist who tryumpheth in Hebrew rythme Remember me O Lord Psal 106.4 5. Liroth betobath bechirecha Lismoach besimcbath goiecha Lehithhall alim nachalechecha with thy favour that thou be arest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy Nation that I may glory with thine inheritance For perhaps yet before we die many of us I mean our eyes may see that