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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19279	The true and perfect copie of a godly sermon preached in the minister at Lincolne, by the reuerend father in God, Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the .28. of August. Anno. 1575.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1575 (1575)	STC 5691; ESTC S111168	25,439	76

you know nothing can be more sodaine for it is done in the twinkling of an eye Therfore Derely beloued you must be assured that in a moment yea euen in the twinkling of an eye when you be in most securitie the last day shall oppresse you And therefore no man is hable to assigne the day the moneth or the yere as some presumtuously haue taken vpon them For Christ himselfe saith it is not knowen to the Angels of heauen no nor the sonne of man in that he is man but to his Godheade nothing is vnknowne The wisdome of God hath kept this secret from all men thereby to stirre vp the faithful alway to be in a readinesse For such is the frowardnesse of our corrupt nature that if we vnderstand of any delaye we abuse the patience and long sufferance of God to our owne further condemnation We ought therfore so to frame our selues in al godlinesse as if euery day should be the last daye of the world or at the least the last daye of our life And although the houre day or yere of Christes last comming be to vs vnknowen yet hath he giuen vs certeine tokens whereby we may assuredly know when it approcheth or draweth nigh For thus he writeth Learne a parable of the figge tree vvhen his branche is yet tender and the leaues sprong ye know that sommer is nigh So likevvise vvhen ye shall see these thinges come to passe be ye sure that it is nere euen at the doores And truely dearely beloued there is nothinge mentioned there by Christ to come before the last day or by the holy Ghost in any other place of the Scriptures but it is euidently euen to the eye of al faithful people fulfilled so that for any thing that we know to the contrarie we may loke for it euen this yere euen this moneth euen this day euen this houre and I beséeche almightie God déepely to impresse this cogitation into our hearts that we may saye with S. Hierome VVhether vve eate or vvhether vve drinke or vvhatsoeuer vve doe vve may seeme to heare this voyce of the Archangel continually sovvning in our eares Surgite mortui venite ad iudicium Aryse ye dead and come to iudgement In the Gospel Christ first noteth these signes and tokens that shall appeare before the later day in the sunne the moone the starres and planets in the ayre in the water in the earth in the Church in the state of principalities and kingdomes in the life behauiour of mē which if I shoulde stande to rehearse particularly and for proofe adde the testimonie of times and witnesse of histories in this latter age an whole day would not suffice for the declaration thereof Haue we not had within this few yeres aboue an hundred eclypses of the Sunne and of the Moone haue we not sene many Cometes and other strange and wonderous fierie impressions in the ayre haue we not had many horrible tempestes of winde rayne hayle snowe thunder and lightening ▪ to the great hurt of man and beast What shal I say of the greatdeluges of water at Naples at Rome in Germanie in Flaunders in England snowe hath fallen twentie Cubites déepe the Sea about Pontus hath bene frosen to the thickenesse of thirtie cubites Earthquakes in Italie diuers in Gréece in Asia in Barbarie in Spaine in England many other places As for monsters both by sea and by land of men of beasts a marueilous number ▪ ●●● mainie of which are recorded and put in writing with the note of their times places signes and of these maner of figures before spoken sundrie haue lighted here with vs in this Realme so that we can not say but God forewarneth vs by the as deepely as he hath done a●●e Nation But these things are passed away with sleight consideration because they haue causes Incident to nature whereby they may be thought to come But christians ought not so lightly to let flippe those signes and forewarninges which our mercifull Lord and gracious Sauiour the trueest Prophet that euer was hath giuen vs to stirre vp our faith and expectation of his last comming that our maister when he commeth sodainely may not finde vs as lewde seruants sléeping in securitie and contempt of God and godlynesse and so being taken be cast into that place where shal be weping and gnashing of téeth for euer to continue in y portion of hypocrites Who is ruler of that nature and disposer and gouernour of those seconde causes vnto which they attribut these extraordinarie euents is it not our Lord and God maker of heauen and earth who guydeth al things that be done not onely by nature but suchs also as séeme to vs to fall by chaunce For if a sparowe fall net or a little worme of the earth créepe not or a rude Asse wander not without his certeine prouidence much more ought we to beleeue that so strange thinges as I haue spoken of before are not disposed by any other power to fall in these or those dayes but by his onely to veryfie the promises threatnings and forewarnings that his sonne our Sauiour hath giuen vs of his last cōming to iudgement By the like contempt and misinterpreting of those signes and wonderous tokens that God sent before the destruction of Hierusalem the stubbourne Jewes by gods iust iudgment hardened their heartes and foaded foorth themselues with vaine hope vntill the very daye that the wrath of God in most dreadful maner did light vpon thē with the vtter destruction of their citie and desolation of their people There appeared a Comet and other firie impressions but they assigned the causes to nature as we doe A man seuen yeres together neuer ceased crying VVo be to Jerusalem vvo be to Jerusalem and they imputed it to madnesse The great brasen gate of the temple which twentie men might scant open beeing fast barred and locked without handes sundrie times rushed open and they saide it was a signe of Gods fauour and of great prosperitie to come vnto them but in the end as I haue said they were surprised with most miserable desolation Christians should beware by their folly For surely I thinke that the ende of the people of the Jewes and the destruction of their citie and Temple is a type and figure of the last day and of those things that shall then happen in the Church as I coulde more largely declare if time would suffer me But because this kinde of signes is so neglected with mante and finde such shiftes in mans reason to auoid the signification of them for the assured proofe of the approching of the last daye I will rest onely vpon thrée or foure places of the worde of God which shall bring so euident testimonie thereof as no mā that hath anie sense of a true christian and is not altogether caried away with the loue of the worlde and luftes of the flesh can with safe conscidence denie it The first is Daniel To