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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

intent to teach and commend the same but to the end wee might knowe them the better iudge therof not according to the flesh but according to the spirite of God and also that we might warely auoid them And more ouer apparently beholding those things to be fulfilled in the world which the holy Prophets of God and the Apostles of Christe haue foretolde should come to passe we might vnderstand that those times are now at hand corrupted and perillous and for that cause should pray the more ernestly and watch the more diligently The Apostle therfore about the beginning of the Chapter a litle before the words that I haue resited dooth reherse in a lōg beadroll diuers wicked acts and wicked men And saith that all ages all kindes and all degrees of men in this our last time shall be moste corrupt The discrption of the manners or men of the last age This knovve thou saith he that in the last daies shall come moste hard and perillous times For men shal be loouers of them selues standing greatly in their ovvne conceits and seeking for their owne gaine louers of their owne gaine louers of money scraping the same by hook and by crooke not refraining from very sacriledge nor from moste filthy Simony Men shal be very disdainful puffed vp proude and vain glorious also blasphemers moste cheefly against God secondly against holy men and against the trueth it felt and against holy things They shal be disobedient to their Fathers to their mothers to their magistrats to their maisters and to their teachers beeing not onely vnthankful to God and to men but also requiting good turnes vvith euil They shal be vvicked men such as haue no fear nor reuerence and such as impudētly run hedlōg vnto all kind of mischeuoꝰ acts They shal be Astorgoi vvithout any harty and feruent charitie vvithout any zelus remorse of loue godlines and humanitie not louing somuch as those that be neer vnto thē as Fathers mothers Children VViues and kinsfolkes But bitter cruel and vngentle endued vtterly vvith vvilde and vnciuil manners vvho also haue not the common sence and remorse of nature measuring all things by affection by couetousnes by ambition and greedy desire They shal be vnmindeful of their couenāts of their faith of their bargaines and of their promises beeing vnfaithful and moste vain and vtterly inconstant and moste light persons finally back biters and slanderers scoffers and mockers of holy good honest thīgs peruerting also things vvel spoken into a peruerst meaning and vvresting things after their levvd affections that are singly and plainly vttered They shal be vvanton and outragious namely in the apparel of their bodies in buildings in garments in meat and drink filthy gluttōs drounckerds whoremongers adulterers and Sodomits proud Pecoks nice and folish Phrigians They shal be moreouer Anemeroi vngentle vnciuil rude barbarous and euen vvilde men rowe wild vndfihisch lijt therfore Aphilagathoj such as greatly regard not or looue not good and honest men neither delight in their company For as they abhorre the best things and accustome themselues to the vvorst so they cannot abide a faithful Counceller Therfore they shall betray these men that looue trueth and godlines They shall doo no thing sincerely and vncorruptly but shall intangle all things vvith practises as they call them vvith crafty fetches and traitorly suttleties Moreouer they shal be heddy and vvilful dooing nothing by the rule of reason and iudgement but all things rashly stoutly and obstinately For they shal be of a minde altogither proud puffed vp and svvelling They shall looue their pleasures more then God him self and godly things For they shall conuert the very religion in to gaine to the intent they may haue to bestovve vppō their pleasure Certes thou maist sée very many that more hartily delight in Tauernes then in Temples doo more estéeme the furnished daintie yea drunken feasts then ecclesiasticall preachings sober and ful of the spirite of God For the matter is now come to this point that moste men haue in déede an outward shewe and resemblance of godlinesse and will be called moste holy moste spirituall moste catholike moste right belonging and very good Christians but yet in the mean season they lack the vertue and power of godlines and true Religion and are moste vaine Hipocrites and dissemblers men without all religion and humanitie abominable and execrable And hitherto hath the Apostle declared these things concerning the corrupt men that shal be in the last time and the naughty conditions of all kindes of all ages and of all degrées But haue not the Prophets and euen Iesus Christe him self the Lord of Prophets foreshewed these things also before hand For in the Gospel omitting the Prophets he speaking moste manifestly said Luke 18. But vvhen the Sonne of man shall come shall he finde faith vppon the Earth Math. 24. And again Iniquitie shall vtterly abound and the looue of many shall abate And yet again moste manyfestly As were the daies of Noe saith hée so shall be also the comming of the sonne of man For as they were in the daies before the flud eating and drinking marying and maried euen vnto the day when Noe entred into the Arke and knewe of nothing vntill the Flud came and tooke them all awaiy so shal be the comming of the Sonne of man Luke 17. In like manner also as it happened in the daies of Loth they did eat drink bie sel plant and build But what day as Loth went foorth from the Sodomits it rained fire and brimstone from Heauen and destroyed them all so shal be also the day in vvhich the Sonne of man sbalbe reueled Wherfore there is no cause to shew forth in many woords what kinde of men they were in the daies of Noe and Loth seeing our Lord him self hath most plentifully declared the same vnto vs namely that they were men altogither carnall vtterly despising diuine and holy things séeking nothing but carnall matters so that they might séem to degenerate or be turned in to certain brute and wilde beastes But who can deny that such are at this day the greatest parte of the common people and the nobilitie and rulers and almoste all wise men Beholde what Kings and Princes doo and also the spiritual fathers like wise the learned and excellent men in the world Harken what the common people talketh of Religion of rightuousnesse of honestie and of the hope of the world to come You shal be forced to cry out with the Prophet and say There is none righteous no not one Rom. 3. There is none that hath vnderstanding There is none that seeketh after God All are turned aside and are become vnprofitable There is none that dooth good no not one Their throte is an open Sepulchre they haue vsed their tungs vnto disceit and the poyson of Asps is vnder their lips whose mouth is ful of curssing and bitternes their feet are swift to

yéeres and half a yéere in which Antichriste should rain and then afterward should be quite abolished But the doctrine of the Gospel is repugnant to that interpretation which constantly affirmeth that the day of iudgement is knowen vnto no man And Daniel also in the self same chapter saith that the beast shall rage vntil the seats be prepared that is euen vntil the day of iudgement And that he shall then be thrown down hedlong in to the déep pit of Hel and also that the faithful shal be deliuered and glorified who haue for Christes cause sustained all kindes of punishments Verily Paule agréeing with Daniel VVhom our Lord saith he shall put away with the brightnesse of his comming But who can certainly declare vnto vs the time of Christes comming that is the day of Iudgement But hée which shall say that Antichriste shall reign iij. yéeres and a half and straight wayes after be abolished may seeme to declare it plainly For the end of Antichristes kingdome is the very last day of the finall Iudgement Therfore by that dark kinde of speaking no time certain is appointed But rather the godly are admonished of patience and long suffering and that we should not ouer curiously séeke out the very moment of this time but rather refer it vnto Christe who saieth in an other place vnto his Disciples It belongeth not to you to knowe the times and moments of times which the father hath reserued vnto him self But vvatch ye that when your Lord shall come he may finde you vvaking After these things Daniel moste plentifully witnesseth that the world shal be at an end and that the day of iudgemēt shall certainly come and throwe down Antichriste in to Hel. Vpon which treatise Christ our Lord hath set foorth a large Commentary and an exposition by the hands of Iohn his Apostle in the xix and xx chapters of the Apocalips the which I leaue vnto your diligence to be serched out and for brevities sake I doo not ouer busily sift out this matter The conclusion And now I suppose it appéereth vnto you by the moste cleere doctrine of Iesus Christe our Lord and also by the euident sayings of the moste holy Prophets of God and by the plain interpretation of the moste select and chosen Apostles of Christe Finally the manifest comparison of the things them selues which partely the Histories doo testifie to haue béen doon a long time agoe and partly we sée them dayly come to passe before oure eyes that the Prophecyes of the last time are now all ready fulfilled and that therfore the day of our Lord is at hand and our redemption approcheth néere Wherby I think you all doo vnderstand that your duties require you to admonish to exhorte and instantly to call vppō and vrge the faithful to watch and lift vp their heads shaking away all drowsines And that they looke for none other signes nor other times but to beleeue the Gospel the Prophets and Apostles and the very things them selues apparent before the eyes of all men and also that they wait not for any other Antichriste to come but to take now good héed to them selues of him that is now presently reigning and troubling all things to flée vnto Christe Iesus who is the fulnes of the faithful and in him to séek all things pertaining to our saluation to depend wholy vppon his mouth and vppon his help to haue respect vnto him alone to depart from all vncleannesse to liue godly and honestly and moste chéefly to beware of vngodly securitie and careles negligence and also of drunkennesse bothe spirituall and corporall that when the Iudge our Lord Iesus Christe shall appéere in the clouds of Heauen with great power and glory we may ioyfully be taken vp in to the aire to meet him and so alwaies liue with our Lord. To whom be glory for euer FINIS ¶ THE SECOND Sermon of Henry Bullinger teaching by the woords of the Apostle 2. Timothe 3. after what sorte the godly may auoid the harms of the moste perillous daungers in this our last age RIght notable is the place of the Apostle Paule which in the latter epistle to Timothe and the third Chapter is woord by woord after this sort But perseuer thou in those things which thou hast learned and vvhich haue been committed vnto thee knowing of vvhom thou hast learned them and for that also thou hast knowen holy Scriptures from a childe vvhich are able to make thee vvise vnto saluation through faith in Christe Iesu For all Scriptures giuen by inspiratiō of God are profitable to teach to reprooue to amend to instruct in rightuousnesse that the mā of God may be perfet preparad to all good vvorks The Scriptures set foorth euen to our eyes The bountiful goodnes of God toward mankinde shineth foorth in many things but moste chéefly in that that he hath so measured the doctrin of our saluation which he committed to the world by moste excellent men that it is agréeable not onely to the same time in which it was first set foorth by the prophets and Apostles but vnto vs also vppon whom the ends of the worlde are come And truely all the moste holy cumpany of the Prophets and Apostles with one consent doo testifie that the last times shal be of all other moste perillus They doo moste diligently and copiously not onely describe those daungers but also set them foorth before our eyes to be seene to that end no dout that the godly should not be entangled and perish in euil and in perils The argument and drift of the matter Of that number is Paule the vessel of election who at this present procéeding in moste godly order dooth first of all very diligently showe foorth the daungers of this our last age Afterward hée declareth a remedy wherby the godly may escape the harmes therof The thing is not onely elegant notable and wholesome but also very necessary moste chéefly for vs and our time Therfore haue I chosen this place to entreat of now before you ye honorable fathers and bretheren moste déerly beloued in our Lord that beeing instructed with the doctrin of the Apostles we may through the spirite of God be strengthened in true godlinesse and he able to deliuer out of daungers the flock of our Lord committed to our charge the Lord blessing our labours Our Lord assist vs with his grace and direct vs alwaies in the way of saluation But The description of the euil acts daungers recited in the Scriptures like as the Phisitions in their books doo moste diligently describe euen such diseases as are moste filthy not to the intent to praise and commend them or els allow them but to th'nd they may be exactly knowne and the more perfectly cured so the Scripture in this present place infinite others doth moste manifestly reherse mischeuous deeds euen such as are to be abhorred and not to be named without sir reuerence not to the

and interpretation Therfore are they moste foolish who think that hereticks cannot be ouer come by the Scriptures onely but that rather they are to be conuinced by councels and decrées of councelles or els by cursings For we finde that Paule the Apostle also in the acts of the Apostles did with stand and ouercome bothe the rebellious Iewes and also all the enemies of the Gospel with none other weapons then of the Scriptures And very well and in good time commeth héere to my remembrance a noble sentence of Saint Augustines which he vseth againste Maximinus the Arrian Heretick in his third Book and faith But now neither I ought to alledge the councel of Nice neither thou the councel of Ariminū as therby to obtaine the victory And neither I nor thou to be bound to the authoritie of this man or that man But by the authoritie of the Scriptures beeing witnesses not proper to any but common and indifferent to vs bothe let matter with matter cause with cause and reason with reason contend togither You sée therfore how Saint Augustines iudgement was that the detestable heresie of Arrius could be confuted by the Scriptures and not by councels But now at this day we haue the self same Scriptures What should set therfore but that we may with the Scriptures strongly conuince all errors and heresies whatsoeuer at what soeuer time they spring vp For the Apostle had said that the Scripture is méer for confutation Furthermore if there be any thing corrupted in the Church as many times the moste excellent ordinances of God are peruerted either by the rashnes The Scripure amendeth and reformeth or the superstition or the foolishnes of man it is necessary to be amended It foloweth therfore in the Apostle that héer also the Scripture is requisit Pros epanothosin that is to renew and as I may so say to make straight and amend The holy histories setteth foorth vnto vs in many and sundry places the vse and example of that thing For as often as the sinceritie and purenesse of Religion was defiled by the negligence wickednes ignorance and couetousnesse of the Rulers and the préests and then by God were sent Prophets and Kings to amend the errors that were generally receiued we read that they did none otherwise reforme and correct the Churche then acording to the form and rule of the diuine Scriptures The holy story of Iosaphat Ezechias and Iosias wel inough knowen And also our Lord Iesus with holy Scripture correcteth the vices of his time corrupting holy Matrimonie He also purging the Temple of Ierusalem through the couetousnes of the préests filthily conuerted in to a market place dooth euen of his owne accorde bring foorth scriptures and sayeth It is written my house shal be called the house of prayer but ye haue made it a den for theeues Moreouer it behooueth them that are taught and reformed aright The Scripture kepeth vs in order to be kept vnder the rule of discipline and good order lest at any time they doo vnchristianly and vnshamefastly wax dissolute and carelesse Paule therfore dooth shewe that not somuche as in this behalfe also any thing can be lacking in holy Scripture For it is profitable saith hée Pros paideian that is vnto discipline and chastisement Zuor ziichtigung vnmeister scafft For it ministreth the perfect rules of life and sheweth sharp chastisements In d●●d from thence did Esdras Nehemias fetch the right Discipline From ●●ence did the Apostle fetch his doctrine as often as he reprooued the Churches that went a●ray into error whome he ●●adeth into the way again and kéepeth them in order with the Scriptures What soeuer rules of life the Apostle prescribeth to euery degree euery kinde and to euery age the same he fetcheth out of the Scriptures Finally the holy Scripture dooth teache and instruct vs in all things in which we haue any néed of teaching or instruction The same dooth reprooue rebuke accuse drawe foorth conuince refute all kindes of errors heresies The same correcteth amēdeth reformeth and finally keepeth vs vnder h●l● discipline lest we should wax ●●●s● and run at ryot and it is a moste perfect Canon and a moste sure and infallible rule of holy life and true saluation Therfore why should not the same suffise in the Church to gouern the men of this last age and to deliuer them from all corruptions Neither is there any cause why we shoulde take vnto vs the rules that is to say the reuoltings and Apostacies of the Munks There is no cause why we should beg or borow these things necessary to saluation els where out of the stinking puddles of men and out of the counterfet traditions and decrees of men The Fountain of liuing water is set foorth and laid open vnto vs of God But all those partes of godly wisdome and of christian doctrine The drift of the wisedome and doctrin of God are directed to a certain and an onely end and mark which the apostle addeth and sayeth In rightuousnesse But wee knowe that Christe is the righteousnes of the faithful To this end therfore all these things doo partain namely that Christe may liue in vs and we in him that he reconciling vs to God may take away our vnrightuousnesse and so giue his rightuousnesse vnto vs and that he may be our rightuousnesse before God the Father through whome afterwarde wée might walk in rightuousnes during our whole life with continuall repentance For as I haue shewed alredy this is the only end and scope of the whole Scriptures But neuerthelesse the purpose and meaning of the Apostles woords remainethe as yet vnperfet For the Apostle hath said All Scripture giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to reprooue to amend to instruct in rightuousnes It foloweth that hée must make an end of the sentence and finish the matter That the man of God may be made perfect The Scripture fashioneth maketh perfect the true worshippers of god prepared vnto all good woorks All the partes of this doctrin saith hée doo tend to this end and doo woork this effect that he which wil be a faithful and perfect seruaunt of God may want nothing therunto but may obtain by the instruction of the Scriptures to be made perfect and prepared to euery good woork Let vs note wel in these woords of the Apostle yée reuerend Fathers and déer bretheren how that vnto the Scripture is manifestly attributed a moste absolute perfection against the madnes and furies of all men yea against the raging blasphemies of those that falsely affirm the same to be vnperfect and maimed and therfore méet to be patched vp with the rags of the traditions and decrées of the Church That the man of God saith Paule may be made Perfet Perfet I say Artios whole sounde absolute in all pointes and such a one as lacketh nothing at all What is it therfore that is néedful to be mended by these traditioners Moreouer he addeth