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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20795	An alarum to the last iudgement. Or An exact discourse of the second comming of Christ and of the generall and remarkeable signes and fore-runners of it past, present, and to come; soundly and soberly handled, and wholesomely applyed. Wherein diuers deep mysteries are plainly expounded, and sundry curiosities are duely examined, answered and confuted. By T.D. Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1615 (1615)	STC 7173; ESTC S118448	31,210	144

manner of sinne Charitie is waxen cold yet selfe-loue aboundeth Vsury by the Scriptures all ancient Fathers and Councels condemned to hell and in former generations scarce heard of is now become a common Trade O Legall nay ô Lawlesse theeues Might ouer-ruleth Right the poore is the rich mans booty Idlenesse excessiue pride in apparell blasphemie Saboth-profanation lying yea and drunkennesse abound and are vnpunished These are priuiledged sinnes and seeme to haue some speciall charter and immunity yea impunity But the iudgement of God sleepeth not and one day shall pay for all What should I speak of fraud deceit filthy liuing back-biting malice enuy and going to the Law to feed the greedy Griffins for euery trifle Men in a manner mind nothing but eating drinking buying selling building marrying and giuing in marriage planting setting c. not dreading the last day though neerely approaching much lesse preparing themselues by faith and repentance against the second comming of our Lord Iesus But when they shall say peace peace sudden destruction shall come vpon them as the trauaile vpon a woman with child and they shall in no wise escape Finally there is no truth in mens promises whereas in time past euery mans word was thought as good as an Obligation There seemeth almost no faith left vpon the earth whether we respect God or man Good men decay and euill men abound yea one may with better like and applause liue loosely then Religiously For euery religious man though neuer so discreete shall vsually bee mistermed a Puritane a Precisian a Schismatick a factious and seditious person And alas what ill haue these honest and harmelesse men done or who are these that so exclaime and declaime against them but Libertines Atheists Papists Drunkards Gamesters Epicures and the like whose tongue is no slander What shall wee conclude of all these and the sinnes of all Callings and Trades in Church Family and Common-wealth which would bee too long now to recite All these daily and wonderously encreasing doe presage and euince that the end of all things is at hand and therefore wee should bee sober and watch and pray but aboue all things haue feruent charity amongst our selues For as vlcers and bodily diseases comming thick and members out of ioint are fore-runners of death neere at hand so these common and prodigious offences and scandals euidently argue that the day of the Lord is not farre off It shall bee our wisedome and good for vs in this common pestilence of Manners to get and preserue the Antidotes and Counter-poisons of faith and a good conscience that though wee liue in all euill world which will grow worse and worse yet wee bee not infected by it And it is the greatest tryall yea and the highest commendations for any man to bee godly good and deuout amongst those that are openly wicked For it sheweth that grace in him is more strong to preserue him then wicked and profane men to poison or peruert him The third part of the Booke touching generall Signes yet for to come CHAP. XII Of the vtter ruin sacking and burning of Rome the seate of Anti-christ THE first generall Signe of Christs comming that is yet not begun is the ruin and vtter desolation of the Citie Rome For the Throne of the Beast must grow darke Babylon must fall it must fall and come into remembrance before God at one instant must her plagues come viz famine mourning death it must be burnt with fire and all her pretious things all her Musicall instruments and idoll furniture be wholy consumed and euer after vnto the comming of our Lord Baybilon must be an house of deuils and a Cage of euery hatefull and vncleane Bird Some of the ten Hornes i. one of the last Emperours or some valiant Duke must be the chiefe instrument to execute Gods fore-determined vengeanee vpon her The Romanists and Italians and others that are willed to come out of Babell and to render Double vnto the Whore for that she had done vnto them shal assist the principall instrument That Rome shall literally vnderstood bee vtterly desolated before the end of the world not onely all Protestant Interpreters of the Reuelation hold but also the Sibyllae yea diuers chiefe Papists as namely Vega Ribera Bellarmine the Rhemists and others confesse Touching the yeare and point of time when Rome shall bee destroyed albeit wee dare not as some doe determine of some thirty yeares hence and some more probably of a shorter time yet we are perswaded that it is neere at hand and perhaps much neerer then most imagine For the power of the Pope in forraigne Kingdomes is much lessened his authoritie in ciuill causes euery where falleth to the ground yea in his owne Dominions in Venice Florence Millain c. Many that haue beene by him seduced beginne to kenne and smell him out To speak nothing of England and other Protestant Kingdomes that haue wholy forsaken him Now let vs come vnto some forcible reasons and arguments whereby wee may make strong our assertion I. Reason All Kingdomes and States haue their set Periods and Fatall yeares which being expired they must needs fall and come to naught and lightly in the space of 500 yeares there is seene an alteration in all States and why not in Rome II. Reason All tainted vnsound and putrified bodies hauing the beginning and matter of their destruction in themselues do at length though no man hurt them vanish and die But Rome and Popery is such a tainted vnsound and rotten body yea an old wind-shaken and ruinous house which though the Iesuites and others seeme to prop vp for a reason yet downe it must and fall it will and so let it in Gods name III. Reason Easterne Babell in Chaldaea a figure of this Romish and new Babell is long sithence fallen though in villany cruelty and idolatry nothing comparable to it and therefore it must needes come to desolation The Type and the Arch-type must needs answere and agree Babylon in Chaldaea was laid waste by the Medes and Persians and so shall Rome bee by the Christian Princes IIII. Reason God that is truth it selfe and whose absolute threatnings are alwaies executed hath fore-told a secular ruin of Rome therfore it must needs come to passe V. Reason God is infinite in power and able to bring it to passe therefore it is not impossible though in our weakenesse wee doe and may cast many doubts VI. Reason Romish Babel is already fallen in many Countries Kingdomes Prouinces and States of Europe viz. in Germany Heluetia Polonia Bohemia Hungaria England Scotland Ireland Denmarke in diuers Prouinces of the Lower Germany and in a good part of France c. And why shall it not by the like reason in due time fall in Italy Spaine Portugall c. Parium similis est ratio VII Reason The sinnes treacherie idolatry cruelty pride blaspemy lust and abominations of Rome