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A59217 An awakening warning to the wofull world by a voyce in three nations uttered in a brief dissertation concerning that fatal and to be admired conjunction of all the planets in one and the same sign, Sagittarius ... to come to pass the 1/11 day of December, anno 1662 : in which it is clearly evinced, as well by S. Scriptures ... that the glorious coming of Jesus Christ is at hand ... / autore Petro Serario. Serrurier, Petrus. 1662 (1662) Wing S2561; ESTC R25616 36,874 48

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coelestial signes do necessarily portend some great and singular thing some mighty change as well in the Civil as the Ecclesiastical Government And for as much as according to the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles and the constitution of the Time wherein we live no singular thing yet remains to be fulfilled but that the Jewes may be converted unto Christ and incidently that Babylon comes into remembrance before God and all the wicked by the fire of the judgement be blotted out of the earth whereby all the Kingdoms of the world may be made obedient unto God and Christ we justly conclude hence that all these very same things are prefigured and portended to us by all the aforesaid celestial signes afore recited And therefore we ought seriously to watch and diligently to weigh with our selves how the matter stands in us with God and our neighbour Whether our loynes are girt our lamps burning N.B. That in such posture we expect the coming of our Lord to the marriage and that so soon as ever he shall come and knock we presently open to him the door Luk. 12.35 36. I say Whether our lamps be trimmed that at whatsoever hour that cry shall ring out Behold the Bridegroom cometh we forthwith be prepared to meet him If not but in the absence of our Lord we are found to have dealt perfidiously have acted strifes and contentions eaten and drunk with the drunken have fallen into a Lethargy of sloath and negligence and so have profoundly and deeply slept What remedy then How then shall we hide our selves from the wrath of the Lamb and from the face of so faithful a Master and Bridegroom who so dearly bought us and did so straitly charge us to wait for his return to the Marriage What shall we answer unto him who hath so faithfully and continually forewarned us by so many and so great monitions of his most Sacred word and by so many and so great signs in the Heavens But I seem to hear the voice of some most famous men and exercised or experienced in Astronomicals objecting 'T is true that the Planets do by their Influences act upon these inferior bodies as certain general causes but seeing the actions of men and their Effects and Consequences are not determined by those general causes but by these particular to wit by mans will and the free consults of men it were fond and beside sound reason to intend to conclude any thing certain concerning the Actions of men and their effects and consequences by those general Influences of the Planets To these things I Answer 1. We determine nothing concerning the Actions of men and their Effects and Consequences by the Stars as by their CAUSES but only as by the SIGNES of them Whereby God doth foreshew us and set before our eyes as in a Table the freest Actions of men and their Effects and Consequences For as God foresaw all things which should ever come ●o pass from the first beginning of the world as it appears plainly out of the Prophesies of Daniel chap. 2. 20. and of other Prophets so hath he set the Signes of all these things in the Heavens that they who have eyes to see might there see as in a Looking-Glass what God hath foreseen shall come to pass on earth in his time 2. In that we seem here to determine somthing as certain we have not that from the Stars but from the S. Scriptures probable Reason and by a certain sensitive experience All which seeing they do so fairly agree with the Stars and concur to the same sense they deservedly ought to be of some moment with us But grant that thou canst not know certainly any thing by those Celestial Signes as being above thee and exceed thy capacity If nevertheless thou hast thine eyes open to see what things are done on earth and thine ears to hear what the Sacred Scripture doth expresly and roundly teach there will not be wanting to thee Reasons whereby thou maist sufficiently discern the end of this world and the beginning of the next at hand For which there is no need of spiritual eyes and sublime understanding ●ut only of attentive observation of things visible and sensible and humane Faith only whereby we so believe the Signes incurring into our eyes that we be convinced For who doth not see how the whole Christian world is divided in it self and miserably torn into many contrary parties Even as the Secular Government or last Monarchy of the world And which is more how not only the whole is divided into two integral and great parts as of old but into many little small parts and again every Part every Sect every Region and Nation disagree among themselves so that the people know not which way to turn nor whom they may believe One Roman Catholick riseth against another Roman Catholick Lutheran against Lutheran Reformed against Reformed Anabaptist against Anabaptist yea one Member of the Roman Empire against another The Guest is not safe with his Host nor the Father in Law with the Son in Law the amity of Brethren also is rare as the Poet * Non ●ospes ab hospite tutus Nec socer a genere c. describeth to the life the character of the former world which the Deluge of waters of old washt away But if that the Lord Christ affirmeth Mat. 12. That a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand be of undoubted truth how I pray shall the Kingdom of Christians in respect as well of the Religious Government as of the secular so many waies divided be able to stand long If moreover the dispersing of the holy people shall have an end as the Angel in Daniel speaketh chap. 12. And if the God of Israel and Judah shall again have mercy on them and restore unto them their Kingdom as the writings of the Prophets are full of promises concerning that matter in what time I pray most likely dost thou think that will come to pass Will it not be when they shall least dare promise that thing to themselves Will they especially then expect it when they are broken with the sense of their unworthiness whether haply the Lord the God of their Fathers will vouchsafe of his meet Grace and Mercy to remember them Let whose will war against them they will take Arms against no man If any man smite them they bear it If any drive them from place to place they give place and fly away as the chased Fawns of the Hind upon the mountaines If any laies hands on them and drags them to execution to kill them as swine they deliver up themselves to the slaughter If any will kill them with the sword or burn them in the fire as in Lusitania is often done or attempt to bury them alive in pits as not many years since was done in Polonia they have nothing wherewith they oppose or defend themselves but prayers to God justifying him in his Judgments and pleasing themselves