flieth from them and yet are they still in death and shall be for euer and euer and thus they still die and neuer giue ouer vnto death therefore thou sinner amende thy wayes and be obedient vnto God considering these dreadfull tormentes to be the rewarde of sinners for which cause lye downe vpon the bed of weeping and waling wrapping thee in the cleane and newe ayred sheetes of true and pure repentance and couer thée with the faire couerlet of true amendement of life considering that all the afflictions and miseries of this worlde are nothing in comparison to the least that they shall feele in hell for which cause wee ought to tremble from the toppe to the toe saying Woe vnto vs because of offences and sinne if wee repent not and amende our liues therefore let vs turne vnto the Lorde our God without any tarrying being sore afraide of the shrill sound of the trumpet that soundeth out the fearefull Alaran of the wooes of hell And beeing terrified with the sound of the la st trump that shal make all thinges sodainly to fall downe as the walles of Ierico and shall make mens hearts to fayle them forfeare knowing what Saint Peter saith that if the righteous shall scarsely be saued Pet. â— 4 where then shall the vngodly and sinners appeare for if God spared not the Aungels that sinned but cast them downe into hell and deliuered them into chaines of darkenes to be kept vnto iudgement then must we looke for the wrath of God with swift daÌ„nation to be shewed vpon al the vnrighteous and vnpenitent which thing doth cal vs home to examine our conscience seing we cannot halt with God though wee dissemble to the world taking that for a faire lesson Iere. 8. of remembring our duetie to God Esay 1 which he saith by Ieremie that the storke knoweth his appointed time but my people will not know the time of the punishment of their Lord. And againe in Esay he saith that the asse will know his maisters stall but my people wil not know their duetie to me their God which examples do condemne vs of vnkindnes and disobedience to our Lord and shal be witnes against vs of our want of duetie and colde loue as Diues dogge licking Lazarus sores was a witnes against his masters vnkindnes and want of mercie And now let vs turne to the Lord seing we cannot scape the iudgement of God who will come as a theefe in the night when men shall say peace and no daunger then commeth on them sodaine des truction yea hee shall come sodainely as the lightning shineth out of the east in to the west so shall the comming of the sonne of man be yea he s hall treade vpon the high mountaines thinges shall melt vnder him Math. 24. and all and who can abide it yea he shall come as a goldsmithes fire to clense the siluer froÌ„ the drosse Mich. 1. and who can endure it Therefore all harde hartes Zach. 3. froward s tomackes proude lookes stubborn wils and hye mindes shall then weepe and mourn when they sée the signe of the sonne man and all loftie glorious rich or high shall be brought lowe and fall down according to the Prophet The day of the Lord commeth that shal go ouer all pryde and presumption and bring them all down who casteth down the highe lookes of the presumptuous persons and bringeth low the pryde of man Esay 2. and all glorious thinges shall be brought down that day Oh therfore where wilt thou be to get into any rocke or to hyde thee in the ground from the sight of the fearful Iudge and from the glorie of his Maiestie will not serue when beholde the day dooth come in which all shall burn wherat thou shalt wring thy hands with an heauy looke and quake and shake like an aspen leafe and wéepe and waile like a sillie wretch and smyte thy breast with pitious grones and watery ché ekes to see the dreadfull day of dread and the fearfull Iudge of Iudges Wherfore O yée couetous men ye vsurers extortioners and vnmercifull people heare the voice of your watchman what are yée as blocks that heare not are yée as stones that féele not are yée as moules that see not or are yée as Images that feare not beholde the fearfull day of vengeaunce what doost thou say tush where and where is it beholde it commeth as a théefe yea it cuÌ„meth lyke a swift cloude when you shall say peace and no danger then is the iudge at the doore and then of force because yée would not heare in prosperitie sayeth Ieremie you shall wéepe in aduersitie whereat Ierem. 22. Oh how is your countenance chaunged which did looke so stout puffing against your sillie poore neighbour and brother but lo the day is and I see how bitterly you doo wéepe but why wéepe yée what for your goodly houses and gay garments for your groundes your goodes your euidences your golde and your siluer Alas it is turned to fire for beholde sayeth Péeter Iames and Esay you are inforced now to leaue them for they burn and are turned to fire to eate and consume you for now your case is pleaded before all the Angels in the presence of the high Iudge how you haue made you fréends of the wicked mammon where it standeth vpon most manifest euidence Luke 16. and plain confession guiltie or not guiltie of an vnpenitent conscience where if you be found gultie of ill lyfe you are turned of the ladder of heauen and shall fall into the seconde death of euerlasting fire swallowed into hel as the earth swallowed vp Corâ—th Dâ—than and Abyron And yee proud and laciuious yee gluttons yée belly and back pleasers and ye dâ—lcious children of wantonnes who counted it pleasure to liue diliciously for a season what is the world chaunged that I sée you so forlorne and naked hanging down your lippes eyes with such â—â—â—full lookes what doo you want your musicall pleas ures your bankets and chamberings alas they are woormewood and gall for your mirth is turned into heauines and why because the day is come that the powers of heauen dooth mooue the frame therof is crackt and the 〈◊〉 watters make an vntollerable noyse 〈◊〉 of all plagues are ready to be 〈◊〉 the day of fearfulnes in which see and beholde how your chambers of pleasure your soft and swéet beds of lust your tables of bankets your gardens of delight your gorgious apparell with all your wanton delights are turned to fire and brimstone yea they are garglâ—d and fupped vp into the hollow throte and gulfe of hell with Lucifer the father of pryde gluttonie vanitie concupisence and sâ—â—â—e Besides yée Antechrist ye sorcerers witches Idolaters falfe teachers and Ipocrites wher is your goodnes where is your skill and boast that yee looke so fearefully vp to heauen what is the day come vpon you vnawares that the sun looke black the moâ—â— hath
droue off from day to day till the floud came vnawares vpon them and ouer whelmed gulled into their throts Gen. 7. and how lamentable the Sodomites were that abode in sinne and wallowed in the lustes of the flesh and pleasure of the world and in the lusts of eating and drinking and vicious life euen till the fire and brimstone came downe from heauen and consumed and burnt them vp mo st â—ufully and heauily but now behold Gen. 19. there is comming a thousand fold more of fire and brimstone of flames of wee of flouds of sorrow and burning plagues of paine at this daye when all the frame of this world shall flye on a fire and the Lord shall say depart ye cursed into euerlasting woe the before turne vnto me saith the Lord and I will turne vnto you and hast to come away yee people from slumbring in sinne Zach. 1. and tarry no longer in your carnall lustes and worldly desires walking with old Adam in filthy and vaine conuersation but awake and rise vp to Christ in holines of life knowing that you are redeemed with his precious bloud as of a lambe vndefiled and without spot that you may be found vnto laud honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ Pet. 1.1 when ye shal giue accoumptes to him who shall come with all power Pet. 1.4 to iudge the aâ—icke and dead for which cause ye ought to awake out of sinne and sit downe vpon the lap of repentance there making you readie dayly and hourely with the garments of righteousnes the breast plate of faith and loue and putting on the golden helmet of hope the precious badge of your saluation thereby making your calling and election sure that when his glorie appeareth you may be merry and glad and not ashamed Wherfore consider this dreadfull day in which behold how wofull how trembling and fearefull it shall be to see all the borders of the heauens and earth in a raging blaâ—â—ng and consuming fire that wee shall crye vnto the hilles and rockes to fall on vs and how pitifull shall this day be in which all the kindreds of the earth shall mourn with greeuous lamentings and weepings therefore let this consideration enter into the eares of thy heart as the sounde of a terrible trumpet â—â—uddering and shaking thy fleshly man with the remembrance of the groning cryes of the wâ—es in hell and aâ—â—mating thy inward man with the ioyfull voices of blessednes in heauen considering that such is the glorie that the gospell propound of the one side and such is the dreadfull damnation which it threateneth of the other siâ—e as that the one is an eternall kingdome of glorie prepared for the good and godly people the ioy whereof surpasseth the other is a place of horror and a furnace of vnquencheable paines ordained for the wicked into the which they shall be damned and cast from the face of their Gâ—â—â— there remaining swallowed vp into the dreadfull and arke gulphes of hell for euer and euer and there shall continue tormented with fire and brimstone for euer where euerie place and corner is filled with curses and woes and with most heauy lamentations and bewaylinges where alas the heapes of woes the stormes of punishments the raging of spirites the horror of Sathan and the crying of soules may pearce your hartes with the woundes of sorrow to think of the griefes that shal be accompanied with the lameÌ„table damnation of departing from god from his kingdom of heauen whereby it shall make that day of sentence and iudgement of death giueÌ„ by Christ to be most trembling dreadfull and fearefull Notwithstanding there is no cause why any man shuld feare himselfe so that he perseuere in the christian faith good life as a sure refuge and anker He that beleeueth neede not feare although great shal be the feare of the dreadfull day of dome when Christ shall shew himselfe sodenly vnlooked for from an high after the maner of a flash of lightening dreadful to the wicked who shall be cast into euerlasting fire uost amiable louely to the godly persons which shal be called to the feloship of the heauenly kingdome for the Lord will let none of his chosen be away but be shrowded vnder the protection of his Angels for it is written Psal 34. the angel of the Lord tarrieth about them that feare him deliuereth them yea hee will comfort them euen when that sodaine and sore perplexity of mind and earnest des peration shall go as a quauie and wind ouer all nations that the people of the earth shall consume and pine away as peple of an other world for feare of beholding the terrible stroke of God the powers of heuen to moue contrarie to their creation the earth shake and reele the sea boyle and swel with most dreadful roring noise to the dismaing of al mens hartes to behold the whole vniuersall world and al the nature of things ready to be shaken in sunder like an earthen pot when the bright shining s un being the fountaine of the light of the earth heauens shal with sodain darknes couer his face imbraiding the vngodly with their blindnes because they would not see follow imbrace the euerlasting s on lanterne of the world Iesus Christ the moone shal giue no light and the stars fall which hath bene so many hundred yeares fastened to the firmament Then the glorie of the Lord shal come his face burne that no man can abide it Esay 3. and shall set vp the power of his voyce an angrie countenaunce with a consuming fire then the kinges shall vani sh as the scums of the water and shall say to the mountaines couer vs Ose 9. and to the hilles fal on vs fearing the fire of Gods indignation now kindled ouer the whole world doubting to be girded in the flame thereof whereat all the nations of the world shal strike their breastes beholding the signe of the sonne of man which being sâ—ne a vniuersall trepidation shall come vnto all mens hartes when the Iewes shall see whom they haue offended and the Gentiles s hal see the maiestie of the crosse which they laughed to scorne for they shall see the sonne of man whom they dispised comming on high in the cloudes of the ayre with a great armie of Aungels Esay 26. who commeth out of his place to visite the wickednes of them that dwell vpon the earth and who shall abide it for then shall the axe be put to the roote of the trees so that euery tree that hath not brought foorth good fruit shall be hewen downe and cast into the fire when fire and brimstone storme tempest shall be their portion to drinke which obstinate sinners haue heaped to them selues despising the goodnes patience and long suffering of God which meanes he vsed in their life time to call them continually to repentance but then shall
souereigne Kings Quéenes yée swéet Lordes and Ladies yee loouing Fathers and mothers yée wise Maisters mistresses yee obedient sonnes and daughters yée diligent and dutiefull seruants and maides reioyce and be glad and behold your king and precious Sauiour Christe ryding into Ierusalem lowly and humbly and now aryse and lyft vp your eyes of repentance to heauen and reioyce and beholde how hée is ready to come in all glory and maiestie with all the powers of heauen to crowne you with glorious and heauenly glorification Therfore cast of from your hartes the euill mantell of pryde disdaine arrogancie haughtines vnmercifulnes frowardnes sinne and vnrighteousnes and put on the mantel of Christes humblenes lowlynes mercifullnes goodnes holynes and righteousnes that you may mé ete Christe with ioy and receiue the incorruptible crowne of eternall glorie for thus saithe the Lord I will set his dominion in the sea and his right hand in the floodes he shall call mee Psalme 89. thou art my Father my God and my strong saluation and I will make him my first borne higher then the Kings of the earth Esay 55. my mercy will I keepe for him for euermore and my couenance shall stand fast with him his seede also will I make to indure for euer and his throne as the dayes of heauen of whome hée sayeth My seruaunt whome I will giue for a witnesse Esay 52. prince and captaine to the people will I keepe to my selfe hee is myne elect in whome my soule is pacified I will giue him my spirit that hee may shewe foorth iudgement and equitie among the Gentiles hee shall not be an outcryer nor high mynded his voice shall not bee heard in the streates a brused â—eede shall hee not breake and the s moking flackes shall hee not quench but faithfully and truely shall hee giue iudgement hee shall neither bee ouer seene nor hastie that hee may restore righteousnes to the earth for I the Lord hath called the in righteousnes and do lead the by thee hand therfore will I also defend and giue thee for a couenaÌ„t of the people and to be the light of the Gentiles that thou mayest open the eyes of the blynde let out the prisoders and them that fit in darknes out of the doungeon house In this the Prophet foretelling that Christe shoulde come in the fleshe death shewe that by his meanes only wée shall bee brought to an attonment and peace with GOD the Father expressing the perfectionn of looue and pleasure which GOD the Father hath in his sonne Christe béeing one selfe same nature in another according to Mathew Math. 3.17 This is that belooued Sonne in whome is my delight and according to the saying of the Prophet Dauid in the second Psalme Thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thée and héerin wé e learne that if Christe is so béeloued of God béeing God according to the fortie nine Psalme the Father of heauen saith to his sonne God Thy seat shall be for euer and euer then how muche are wée bound to looue so beloued a God and Sauiour to vs giuing him all the praise honor and thankes euermore lyfting vp pure hands for so great treasures of vertue and goodnes for his cléernes of trouth and iudgement for the light and brightnes of his moste holy and blessed doctrine for his aboundant swéetnes of his excéeding and bountiful loone toward vs moste miserable sinners in that hée of his meere mercie and goodnes hath broughte vnto vs redemption and delyuerance out of the bondage of sathan sinne and death calling vs to holynesse of lyfe thereby by imitating him to be made by righteousnesse the sonnes of God and pertakers of the euerlasting kingdome And further the Lord saith My seruant shall deale wis ely therfore shall he be magnified exalted and greatly honored like as the multitude shall meruaile at him because his couÌ„tenaÌ„ce shal be so deformed and hard fauoured aboue the sonnes of men yea he shall haue neither beautie nor fauour wheÌ„ we look vpoÌ„ him there shal be no fairnes in him we shall haue no lust vnto him hee shall be the most simple and dispised of all which yet hath good experience in sorrowes and in firmities but wee shall reckon him so vile and base that we shall not regard him how be it of a trueth hee only takes away our infirmitees Whervpon consider according to Paule that Christ dooth make him self of no reputation and taketh vpon him the shape of a seruant and became lyke vnto man and was found in his apparell as a man and that he abasing him self in respect of all worldly wisdome was of the wis e according to the wisdome of this world dispised scoffed and s corned at hée béeing him self verry wisdome it self and the fountaine therof and he being beautie it self and the Author of all beautie and fairnes woulde shewe him selfe without beautie and fauour to condemne the vanitie of fleshly beautfe and extoll the excellencie and woorthines of the spirituall and heauenly beautie of the soule wherfore O yée Children and Daughters of men yee are become so nyce so arogant and coy because of your faces and so proude of your beauties Come from your vaine looking glasses The contempt of fleshly beautie and beholde héer I offer vnto you the bright shyning glasse of all excellencie euin Christe your King and Sauiour the Author and Giuer of all beauties and godlynesse to beholde him béeing without fauoure and fairnesse beeing lowely mé eke and most humble being simple and not gorgeous how hee condemned and dispised your vaine fleshly pleasure and gaynes euen in the cleere example of his owne person giuing you himselfe for a rule that you reioice not in apparell nor vainely conceaue of your vaine flesh and outward comlines of nature but onely in the beautie of your soules by adorning and decking your inward man with all spirituall rayments of holines and precious ornaments of righteousnes which will neuer decay whereas the flesh and all that pertaine to his furniture is as S. Peter saith as grasse and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse Pet. 1.1 the grasse therof withereth and the flower fadeth away but the word of God endureth for euer Moreouer the prophet saith that we shall dispise him and yet he beareth our paine Esay 53. and we shall so contemtuously thinke of him as that we shall iudge him as though he were plagned and cast downe of God wheras he notwiths tanding shal be wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednes for the paine of our punishment shall bee laid vpon him and with his stripes shall we be healed hee shall be pained and troubled and shall not open his mouth he shall be led as a sheepe to be slaine The prophesie of Christes death yet shall he be as stil as a lambe before the shearers and not open his mouth he s hall be had away his cause not
lo st 〈◊〉 â—ight the starres of heauen did fall and the 〈◊〉 â—oor the your spirits â—ring but your 〈◊〉 men and come â—oorth you Astrologers and cast your figures looke to the houses of heauens toâ—â—ther the detriments and degrées of the planets and starres what are you now confounded then beholde saith the Prophet the Lord will destroy the tokeÌ„s of witches and make the southsayers go wrong Esay 44. make the cunning of the wise foolishnes bring the councell of the Magitioners to nought for sayeth the Lord I will destroy the wisdome of their wife and the vnderstanding of their lerned shall perish so that now ye fall to the ground quaking to se the signe of the sonne of man appearing to se the day of fire that is come to trye euery mans woork whereat O how yee lament and cry but what for your spirits and familiars which made you to bee counted cunning men whiche promised you dreames and shewed you vi sions which serued your pleasure to vex men and to bewitche with O beholde sayeth Christ many shall say vnto me in that day Lord Lord Math 7. haue we not in thy name prophisied and in thy name haue cast out deuils in thy name haue done many myracles but sayeth the Lord I will knoweledge to them that I neuer knew theÌ„ depart from me ye workers of iniquitie And now yée Idolaters false woorshpers and Apocrites sée how you doe nothing but wé epe what for your pictures your cerimonies your offerings your golden Ladies your wooden saincts for wante of your masses to eas e you or of bulles frome Roome to pardon preserue you this day beholde saieth Esay they are the strawe and you are the fire you shall burne and neuer be quenched Esay 33. yea all that you haue thus conceiued is stubble strawe and your spirit shal be the fire that it shall consume you and shal be burnt like lime thornes for now confouÌ„ded shal be all woork maisters of errors and shal be turned to fire and smoke and shall burne for euer with that great beast and false prophet which shal be cast into a ponde of burning brimstone Esay 45. Esay 65. Therfore let s uddain fearfulnes run through you to consider the terror and vengeance of this heauie and ferefull day of bitter wrath and indignation and who shall be able to indure it wherfore away with all vanities and so runne your race of lyfe that you may finde mercy at the great day of the Lord so that cleanse your consciences from sinne filthines and buy the milke of heauenly nurishment the wine of heauenly gladnes hope and the garments of righteousnes that you may be filled and clothed with all godly lyfe and conuersation that you may be bolde and and not affeard at the appearing of the Lord in the dreadfull day of iudgement Moreouer yée enuious men reuenger théefe murtherer blasphemer lyar quariler and deceiuer why dooest thou now shake for feare that wunt to be so lusty a thretner so feirce and stout a reuenger against thy poore neighbour or enemie Deut. 32. what art thou become a lump of feare and is the day come that hath shaken a sunder thy ioynts and hart stringes that thou so wretchedly doost wéepe Rom. 12. or why wéepest thou because thou canst haue no more thy mynde to hurt and sting thy neighbour and enemie and so backbyte him alas wretch the direfull day is come that the Lord sayeth vengeaunce is mine and I will reuenge yea the time is come the hée will spend all his arrowes vpon thee and will reward thy enuious reuenging hart euen into thy bosome except thou hast imbraced repentance in time for beholde God sayeth the fire is kindled in his wrath and shall burne vnto the bottome of hel Zache 5. for the flying booke of cursse which was entred into the houses of theues swearers murtherers lyers reuengers quarrellers and malicious sinners is brought foorth that they may bée iudged and thereby consumed being adiudged to be s ectered with chaines of fire and led through the gates of hel to be brent in the pit of burning brimstoÌ„e for euer Wherfore awake quickly out of your s lumbring â—eâ— of sin turne vnto the Lord your God for he is gracioê° and mercifull and redy to pardon wickednes so that you â—â—cuse your hartâ— become 〈◊〉 creatures in holines and purenes working out your saluation with earnest deuotion for consider the dreadefull voyce which the watchemen soundeth of the day of the Lord saying that it shall come as a snare to all them that sit on the face of the earth wherby ye ought to take heede to your selues lest your hearts be ouercome with surfetting and drunkennes with lusâ—es and cares of the worlde and so haue your heartes as it were giued to sinne Therefore repent for the kingdom of God is at hande Matth. 13. which as the Apostle saith is like to a net cast into the sea that gathereth of all kinde of fishes which when it is full men do draw to land and sit and gather the good into vessels and cast the bad away and so shal it be at the end of the world the sonne of maÌ„ shal send foorth his angels and they shall seuer the good from the bad and gather out of his kingdome all that offende and doeth iniquitie and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth and then shal the iust man shine as bright as the Sonne in the kingdome of the Father wherein ye are warned carefully to watch and abide in Christ least you be founde cursed children forsaking the right way for which cause arme your selues with goodnesse of life Matth. 2. â— that when he shall s ende his angels with great voyce of trumpet to gather together his chosen from the foure windes and from the one ende of the worlde to the other you may be found profitable seruaÌ„ts and well doing Peter 2.3 For it is written that the heauens shall perish with fire and the elements consume with hearte and the earth burne with all that is therein And seeing that all these things shall thus vndoubtedly perish what maner of persons ought we to be in conuersation godlinesse in righteousnesse and holinesse looking for the comming of that day in which the whole worlde shal be vtterly burnt vp and consumed no doubt seeing that such thinges are most assuredly to be looked for we ought to be diligent so to liue as to be founde true children of the light sprinkled in our heartes with the blood of Christ Heb. 10. from an euill conscience knowing that euery 〈◊〉 that bringeth not foorth good fruite shall be â—ewen downe and cas t into the fire Matth. 7. for Chri st saith That not all that say to me Lorde Lorde shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but hee that
called vnto the supper of the Lambes mariage for they shall dwell with him in his euerlasting Tabernacle and Temple and God will dwell among them Reu. 22. and they shall see Gods face and his name shal be in their forheads and God him self shall bee their light and shall reigne for euermore therfore to him sing prayses world with out end AMEN Esdras 4.2 Take thy number O Sion and shut vp thy purified for the number of thy Children whome thou loÌ„gedst for is fulfilled and sealed in the feast of the Lamb receiuing glorious garments of the Lord therfore O glorious mother Ierusalem imbrace thy glorified Children with all tryumphing gladnes THE GLORIOVS AND BEAVTIFVL GARlande of mans glorification CAP. 5. Of the pure Christall and glassie Sea on which the Elect shall stand before Christ and in this glassie sea true godlines and righteousnes giue the crownes of glory according to whoÌ„ euery man must be directed that desire to staÌ„d ioyfully before Christ to be crowned with the Garlande of glorification * ⎠* THE Lorde God Almightie who went before his people thorough the wildernes that the earth shooke and the heauens dropped at his presence Psal 68. who se glorie Moyses might not beholde neither any earthly and corruptible eye can sée his face and liue Exod. 33. hath promi sed of his great goodnesse and loue that he will haue the righteous in euerlasting remembrance and will be to them a ioyfull crowne and glorious Garlande Therefore reioyce in the Lorde and be glad Es ay 28. that he may put vpon you the garments of health and couer you with the mantell of righteousnesse â—ho saith that he wil decke you like a bridegrome and as a bride that hath her apparell vpon her so he will clothe you with the shining robes of glorification For which cause ye ought to shewe your selues excellent in righteousnesse a planting of the Lorde for him to reioyce in euermore walking in purenesse of conuersation and so holding out to the ende therby to winne the glorious palme of victorie Esay 62. and eternall kingdome of blessednesse Tim. 2 2. for be it that a man striue for a maisterie yet he is not crowned with the victorie except he striue lawfully so ouerrommeth And also they that prooue maisteries to obtaine a corruptible crowne Cor. 1 9. abstaine from all things that shoulde hurte them and hinder them in their enterprise but nowe to you an incorruptible crowne is propounded the ioy of euerlasting life and blessednesse for which cause you ought so much the rather to abstaine from all things that shoulde let you thereto And so runne that you may obtaine the garland of victorie and palmes of glorie for Christ hath not called you vnto vncleannesse of life but vnto holines accordingly as it is written Pet. 1.1 be ye holy because I am holy wherein it is the will of God that you shoulde increase more more in all righteousnes of conuersation according to his Gospel For pure deuotion before God is to keepe your selues vnspotted of the world and to clense your selues from all filthines of the flesh and growe vp to full holinesse in the feare of God for great is the mysterie of godlines wherunto you ought to stirre vp the gift of God which is in you to perfection of righteousnesse walking as obedient children ought to doe to the pleasing of God Wherefore to bring thee into the right way that leadeth to this pure glassie sea of righteousnes thereby to enioy the treasure of eternall life you must walke in the path that leadeth to the house of Iacob in whose seede all the kinreds of the earth are blessed Iohn 10. and there by the holy one of Israel who is the doore you may goe in and be guyded in the right pathe to the heauenly Citie newe Ierusalem in a cleare waye of godly conuersation accompanyed with true Christianitie Golden stayr and at your comming to this doore you shall beholde with the eye of faith foure golden stairs decked with many goodly precious stones of vertue being very faire gryces to goe vpon one higher then another and when you are at the fourth stayre you are come fully into this pure glassie Sea of holinesse godlinesse and righteousnesse and besides when you are come to the ende of the fourth stayre you shall beholde the fift golden stayre more goodly then all the rest most beautifull transfulgent and glorious which bringeth you presently into the Chrystall Sea of glorie to stande ioyfully in the sight of Christ with a palme of victorie and a garlande of glorie in your hande stair 1 Whereof the first golden stayre of Christianitie is To beleeue the holy Scriptures and Gospell of God simply syncerely and truely And this is the first steppe of Christian wisedome stair 2 The s econd staire is to reuerence the worde of God with a pure hart in all obedience diligence to taste how swéete the Lord is and this is the grice of true Religion stair 3 The third staire is to goe forward by the woord of God vnto the meditation of heauenly life hauing your conuersatioÌ„ in heauen froÌ„ whence you look for a sauiour to deck and beutifie you with glorie And this is true holines and godlines stair 4 The fourth goodly stayre is to continue and perseuer in the woord of God and treuth of the Gospell in all stedfastnes of faith loue hope and patience immoueable vnto the end And this is perfect constancie to obtein the victorie and theÌ„ stair 5 the fift transfulgent and high s tayre of beautie to enter into the Christall sea of glorie to stand in the number of the elect that hath got the victorie of the beast of his image of his mark and of the number of his name hauing the Harppes of God and singing the song of Moyses the seruant of GOD and the song of the Lamb who hath made vs meete for his moste glorious and euerlasting kingdome Is by grace in Christe to ouercome and vanquishe the worlde and lustes of the fleshe and spirituall powers by the faith of the Gospel and armour of God and so to depart with the victorie 1. The light of the Gospel and trueth And now at the entring vp vpon this golden grite of Christianitie there standeth a faire virgine of a very pure and cleare countenance clothed with garmeÌ„ts of shining light endewed with vnsearcheable vertues and she speaketh nothing to them that would come vp but as the holy one of Israel hath taught her because vpon his shoulders the whole kingdome doth lye Esay 9. And she is crowned with a crowne beset with the pearles of doctrine trueth knowledge discipline prophecying and preaching And she is called the light of the Gospell Iohn 1. And she is alwayes pronouncing a sweete and heauenly exhortation desiring euery man to heare the trueth of the Gospell and the way to their saluation
of euerlasting life for he that confesseth the treuth of mée before men Reuâ— 3. I will confesse his name before God and the holy Angels and hee that denyeth the treuth of me I will denye him O therfore beware and bee not féeble mynded and dismaid at yonder tempest of persecution for why hath not Christe moste louingly tolde thée that such extreame dangers shall come to passe and sayeth to the feare none of thos e thinges but holde out to the end and thou shalt be saued and crowned with eternall glorie why then wilt yâ— yéeld wilt thou now be shaken down like a figge from his figge trée O man remember thy self consider whereto thou dooest fall what art thou so nyce of thy fleshe so tender of thy skyn Be not remoued from the Gospel so feruent to Wife and Children so geuen to worldly riches and delights so bent to promotions so hastie to please men so adict to this Worlde so foolishe and madde to run with the multitude so ready to yéelde to the persecutors as to forget the day of the Lord when thou shalt altogither tremble and quake and giue an account of thy dooings what I say to thée with heauie gréef wilt thou abide no perrils no torments no imprisonment no affliction no hunger nor shame no wearines no losse of goodes no departing from fré ends no losse of life for Christes Gospell then thou maist say wo is my vntrutefulnes Wherefore pray with all instance that God may strengthen thy faith and that thou maist be endued with patience against all tribulations and that you may be preserued from dogges from Locustes and vnreasonable men And nowe while the doore of the Gos pell is open stablishe your heartes in the euerlasting consolation of faith hope loue and patience in Christ Dan. 12. And suffer aduersitie with him and with his Gospell through the power of God who hath giuen you the gift of grace For it is written that the dayes shall come in which you shall bée purifyed cleansed and tryed as golde in the fire Wherfore holde fast the patience of his name in all stormes of persecutions by looking vp ioyfully to heauen when thou art in the handes of the persecuters Reu. 6. and fettered to the stake of torments then to beholde the golden altar and see there the soules of them vnder the hande of Christ which hath suffred before you in the testimonie of Iesus Christ whether now thy soule skipping ioyfully out of thy body as one loosed out of bondage and prison do goe accompanied with Gods holy angel to those blessed soules there meeting together with praising and magnifying God vnder the golden altar for blessed are those that suffer for righteousnes sake An acceptable sacrfice to GOD And therefore consider what an acceptable sacrifice thou shalt be to God when thou shalt breath forth the swéete odours of prayers through the flaming fire or tortures of death vp before the face of God by yéelding thy life for his cause so that bee assured that thy inward ioy shall quench eat vp the outward paines and torments of death for it is written the Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that feare God Psalme 3. and deliuereth theÌ„ therefore feare not death for the gospels sake but suffer with christ that you may be glorified with him and so be of the nomber of them to whoÌ„ he shal s ay Come ye blessed inherite the kingdom and be crowned with the glorious garland of your glorification and so to conclude Luke â—â— Reioyce that your names are written in heauen TO THE Reader LIft vp your heades Christ is at hande Hosanna in the highest Receiue the gifte the kingdome come from heauen which is most purest The Lord doth com him selfe from heauen who is the king of kinges Arise you dead and put you on your newe immortall winges At Sion he will shewe him selfe prepare you to be there Where crownes of life and palmes of ioy the chosen then shall weare Arise therefore receiue the gifte of Gods eternall light Imbrace the ioyes beholde the face of God in open sight The holye Citie gloriously in brightnesse which excel Descendeth downe from God aboue wherein the Saintes shall dwell The wicked then shall stande without an heauie wooe to see The Lord shall say Depart ye hence you shall not be with me Arise therefore as true right heires Of that most blessed lande Sing out Hosanna in the highest Christes kingdome is at hande F. K. A PRAYER OF THANKESGIVING TO GOD THAT IT MAY PLEASE HIM TO sanctifie vs with his holy grace that we may dwell in Newe Ierusalem with a petition for our Soueraigne Queene that it may please God that she may reigne ouer vs many yeeres and after this life be crowned with the heauenly clothing of glorification WE most heartily thanke thée O Lorde God our heauenly Father for thy manifolde and inestimable benefits which thou hast giuen vnto vs both for our soules bodies and that fréely of thine owne goodnesse without our desertes wee thaÌ„ke thée that it hath pleased thée of thy great mercie to create and make vs to thine owne Image and Likenesse and being lost through the sinne of our first father Adam thou vouchsafedst of thy endlesse pitie to s aue vs and redeeme vs againe by the death and passion of thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ our sweete Mediatour and Aduocate whom we looke for to come againe at the day of iudgement as a most louing Lord and Sauiour to carry vs with him into euerlasting glorie there to remaine with him worlde without end Therefore graunt vs sweete Lord God the riches of thy grace that we may haue the fruition of thy ioyes in thy heauenly kingdome of euerlasting blessednes And we beseech thée O Lord Iesus Christ which art the health of al meÌ„ liuing the euerlasting life to theÌ„ that die in thy faith to preserue 〈◊〉 thy seruant our Queene Gouernes so with thy blessed hand to fé ede â—â—â—spéede 〈◊〉 lead 〈◊〉 kéepe 〈◊〉 vnder thy holy wings that she may euermore faste the sweetenesse of thy riche mercie and great loue to the praise of thy holy Name and glorie of the Gospel and also to his glorification in the eternall kingdome of glorie And we thy seruantes and children by grace being ordeined by thee to be her faithfull subiectes doe beseech thée of thy great goodnes so to increase her with thy blessings that we may enioye him swéete gouerneâ—â—e to reigne ouer this Realme manye yeeres more in peace and tranquillitie and after this life to partake the euerlasting glorie of Christ to whome be all glorie honour and praise worlde without ende Amen GOD SAVE the 〈◊〉
VIVAT SERENISsima Regina TO THE MOST MIGHTIE IMPERIAL AND Vertuous Princesse The Lordes Anointed Queene Elizabeth by the grace of God of Englande Fraunce and Irelande Queene Defendresse of the faith c. â‚ SEing that your Royall seate and Scepter most mightie and Imperiall Princesse is clothed with Salomons heauenly giftes and doeth holde vp the golden rodde of wisedome which leadeth to the euerlas ting kingdome I hope therefore by the goodnesse of God that it shall please your Highnesse to admit this Garlande of mans glorification to come into your sweete gracious handes prefixed with the bright beames of your Maiesties princely glorious Name vnder the high precious Cedar and sweete Libanus of your heauenly goodne sse of mercie and pardon That though I be troubled in heart with 〈◊〉 â—eare of your supers plendent personage being a mightie princes of power to dedicate this Pamphlet to your most excellent Maiestie yet the singular clearenesse of your spirituall treasures of goodnesse doth preuaile ouer my dutifull minde and faithfull allegeance in such sort as if the precious pearle of your vertues did shine into my heart not forbidding this litle Pamphlet to come vnto your Highnes trusting that the purenes of the matter will increase your MAIESTIES deare soule to an exceeding consolation touching your bodie to bee glorified In consideration whereof when I did beholde the goodly order of the bright glistering starres which the omnipotent Creator hath placed in the firmament of the heauens there seeing the resplendent starre Corona lucida I was stirred vp with the ioyfull remembrance of your Maiesties incomparable personage being the Lordes Anointed knowing that your Highnesse being vertuous meeke and mercifull is equall with the good Kinges of Iuda with Asa Ezechias Iehos aphat and Iosias in imbracing all godly vertues to the aduauncing of the honour glorie of God that as your Maiestie in all points doe holde your scepter linked to the Scepter of Iuda being an vnfeigned friend to the holy one of Israel so your highnes subiectes in great consolation of heart do pray sincerely in all humblenesse of duety vnto God for the preseruation of your Maiestie loÌ„g to reigne ouer vs And that at the appearance of Christ you may be a glorious Saint in the kingdome of God And now considering howe much Israel reioyced of Salomon how greatly it lamented after his departure Am perswaded how much all true Protestants do pray that the Lord may be your shield as he was to Abraham and that your blessed personage may by the great mercie and s ingular goodnesse of God gouerne this Realme as happily and as many yeeres and more as good king Asa king of Iuda did to the glorie of God and saluation of soules Wherefore most Mightie and Renowned Soveraigne when I an inferiour vnworthie to touch the grouÌ„d that your Maiestie doe walke on had finished this Beautifull garland of mans glorification expressing the mysterie of new Ierusalem with her golden crownes and diademes I thought it so much to represent the heauenly ioyes and happinesse of our euerlasting glorie as that it was a matter meete to be dedicated to your most excellent Maiestie shewing howe your Highnesse being an Anointed and blessed Princesse of power vnder God vpon the earth shal meete at the great day of resurrection the King of al kings comming in his triumphant progresse from heauen with the glorious companie of his holy Angels when your pure personage shall beholde that incomprehensible Scepter of the euerlasting kingdome of Dauid That as your Maiestie in your progresse vpon the earth hath highly preferred your faithfull subiectes in Christ to honour and dignitie so nowe that glorious King of eternitie and euerlasting glorie will fashion your bodie to be like his owne glorious body for that your blessed power hath set foorth the true Religion worshippe and honour of God to a liuely hope among your Highnesse subiectes to obteine the eternall garlande of glorie Thus humbly committing this litle Pamphlet of mans glorification vnto your Princely magnificence and godly wisedome doe beseech your Highnesse in your tender minde of mercie to receiue it vnder your sweete gracious mans ion of goodnesse among your spirituall treasures of heauenly solace and ioye thereby daily remembring how your God and Sauiour Iesus Christ shall clothe your Maiestie with an euerlasting garment of glorie shining vpon you with the light of his owne couÌ„tenance there sitting with Christ in his owne seate of heauenlinesse tasting the vnspeakeable ioyes of eternall blessednesse where you shall glister as the shining of heauen worlde without end beholding the beauty of God for euer in new IerusaleÌ„ Thus hoping that your Maiesties mercie will be as a vayle to my boldenesse doe trust that as your Highnesse hath truely touched the hemme of Christes garment whereby you haue partaken the heauenly sparkes of the vertues of Christ that it would please your goodnesse to admit one sparke towards the acceptation of this glorious garlande And so I pray God with all instance that it may please him of his aboundant mercie to preserue you our Sweete beloued Queene and true branch of Christ long to reigne ouer vs in tranquillitie and peace to the setting foorth of Gods honour and spreading abroade of his glorie that your MAIESTIE may ioyfully appeare before Christ and be crowned with the Crownes and Diademes of euerlasting glorification which O Lord so let it be Your Maiesties most humble Subiect faithfull Orator FRANCIS KETT THE GLORIOVS and beautifull garland of mans glorification CAP. 1. How Christ was ordained before the world was made to our glorie and promised of God in his holy Scriptures to come in the humanitie and humilitie of flesh to tast of death for all men whereby is iustified the righteousnes of God to the confirmation of our beliefe touching our election and glorification SEing that our glorification and heauenly mansion wherwith we desire to be clothed and which we hope after this life to inioy doth come by Iesus Christ sealed with the holy spirit of Gods true promise wée ought then to stablish our hartes in the consolation of good hope and faith to obtaine the glory that thus cometh by Christ by considering the faithfulnes of God who performeth all that he hath promised and is able to doe excéeding aboundantly aboue all that we can aske or think who so loued the world that he spared not his owne sonne but gaue him a reconciliation for our sinnes The mysterie of whom was hid since the world began and since the beginning of generations but now is opened and declared openly to haue brought to vs life and immortalitie through his Gospell to the iustifying of the righteousnes of Gods true promise to be the glorious riches of our eternall glorie by the shedding of his bloud vpon the Crosse That whereas through the sinnes and disobedience of one man sinne reigned vnto death So by the obedience of one maÌ„ Christ might grace reigne through
righteousnes vnto eternall life That all that beleeue in him walking after the spirite and not after the fleshe might be pertakers of his heauenly kingdome and made the sonnes of God For which cause to the better confirmation of our faith and hope of saluation It is requisite to shewe the ordenance and promyse of God from the beginning touching our iustification in his sonne Iesus Christ that thereby wée may be stirred vp by the great goodnes of god for to séeke by Christe Cor. 1.2 the riches of his glorious inheritance vpon the Sainctes Ephe. 11. hée béeing ordained thereto of God before the beginninge of the worlde was made vnto our glory Touching whome in this Booke of mans glorification wée must especially looke vnto Christes two coÌ„mings séeing that hée is the Author and finisher of our redemption and hath adopted vs to be the sonnes of glory by appearing once in the fleshe to put sinne to flight by the offering vp of him self to death whome the Father raysed vp to lyfe and is entred into heauen to appeare now in the sight of God for vs and shall come againe to chaunge our vile bodyes Phil. 3. to be facyoned lyke to his glorious body Wherfore in that wée haue such an high Aduocate in heauen by whome wée haue an incorruptible crowne of blessednes propounded and set before vs Let vs walke woorthy and laudable vnto God according to the grace giuen vs in Iesus Christe that wée may obteine the rewarde thereof And now to consider the purpose of the heauenly Father how hée hath blessed vs in all manner of heauenly thinges by Chris te according as hée hath chosen vs that wée should be Saints through the beloued Iesus It followeth that wée kéepe alwayes a ioyfull remembrance that as the glory of the last house or teastament of God was greater then the first so is it in the manner of the two commings of Christ for first hée came in the humilitie of the fleshe to be to vs a sauing health béeing borne of the Virgin Mary by the woorking of the holy Ghoste very man and mortall and yet the same very GOD and immortall who béeing in the shape of God and equall with God Collos s â— Phil. 2. in whome dwelleth all the fulnes of the Godhead bodyly yet did he neuerthelesse make him self of no reputation takeing vpon him the shape of a seruant and became lyke vnto man and was founde in his apparell as a man humbling him self to all obedience for though hé e were Gods sonne yet learned hée obedyence Heb. 5. by those things which hée suffered and was made perfect Ihon. 1. and the cau se of eternall saluation vnto al that obey him according to Iohn In the beginning was the woord and the woord was with God and the woord was God and this woorde was made fleshe beeing the lyfe and light of men giuing power to all that beléeue in him to be the sonnes of God for it pleased the father to send his sonne in the sinfull fleshe béeing without sinne and by sinne dampned sinne in the flesh and loused the woorkes of the deuill Rom. â— Whome he maketh heire of all things béeing the brightnes of him self bearing vp all thinges with the woord of his power for so it was the will of the Father that in him should all fulnes dwell Heb. 1. and that in him all thinges should haue their béeing that hée might be all in all Thus the Almighty Creator hath performed his blessed promyse Collossians â— when hée sayde that the séede of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head and when long after he sayd vnto Abraham vnto thy séede will I giue this land Gen. 3. for one that come out of thine owne body shall be thyne heire and thy seede shall bee as the starres in number And Abraham beléeued the Lord and it was imputed to him for righteousnes Gen. 15. And also the Lord sayde againe to Abraham when he was 89 yeare olde I will make my couenant betwéen mée thée and will multiply thé e excéedingly for behold my testameÌ„t is with thée that thou shalt be a father of many nations my bond betwéen mée thée thy séed after thée shal be an euerlasting testament Gen. 17. I wil be good to theÌ„ giue theÌ„ the land wherin thou art a stranger euen all the lande of Canaan for an euerlasting possession and wil be their God for Saâ—a shall beare a sonne and thou shalt call his Name Isac and she bare Abraham a sonne euen the same season which the Lord had appointed Thus it pleased the Almightie God to choose vs and not we him shewing foorth hereby the abundancie of his loue and mercie in that he hath mercie vpon theÌ„ which are not yet in the worlde and in that he declareth his great goodnes in multiplying his louing kindnesse towarde those that are present and to them that are past and to them that are to come for after that Adam thorough sinne brought in the corruption of nature that the euill seede of wickednesse was sowen in all mens hearts whereby death raigned by meanes of sinne then this darnell and cockle of vice and iniquitie did grow ripe in the first generations of Adam that they walked after their owne stubborne and fleshly will neglecting Gods goodnes That the Lord was thereby prouoked to bring his water floud vpon the world and destroy all mankind except Noye and his houshold And then after that the ofspring of Noye was againe multiplied to a great people by processe of time they waxed also vngodly and wicked but the Lord had giuen his raine bowe for a couenant that he would neuer destroy the world with watermore And then the most highest did choose him a man from among them whose name was Abraham whom he loued and to him onely God shewed his wil and made an euerlasting couenant with him promising him as is aforesaid that he will neuer forsake his seede and so in his old age gaue him Isaac the first testimonie of Gods promise and couenant begun so faithfully performed in Christ Iesus to the ioy and comfort of man in that we see euidently that God is righteous and true and hath giuen vs an assured hope of our election that by that onely seede of Abraham we shal enioy the euerlasting possession of that new blessed land of Canaan the first lande of promise Therefore this record we must beare in our selues that God is true and that what hee do or say can no man change what he promiseth he can not but perfourme And nowe the more to confirme this ioye faith hope which Abraham our first father of beliefe had to God in respect of the birth of Isac and prosperitie of his seede The Lorde to our example tryed whether righteous Abraham would beare an immutable minde towardes his God to loue him aboue all the dearest thinges which he
and washe you cleane and cleanse your corrupted harts by washing away your euill thoughtes wicked lusts and sinfull déedes in the blood of Christe by true repentance and newnes of lyfe least you be cast hedlong from the inheritance of heauinly pleasure into the filthie lake of perpetuall sorrowe and miserie and all yée Inhabiters of the earth striue against sinne and cast from you the fellowship of Ipocrisie enuy pryde couetousnes with all other sinnes and cut of from your hartes the cloisters of euill thoughtes and the braunches of wicked imaginations that you may bee found woorthie at the great day of the LORD to bee translated into the kingdome of glorie Wherefore consider the terrour of the day of iudgment and beholde how all kyndreds dooth stand shaking and be wailing before the highe Iudge that it may inforce vs to teares for to thinke on that daye when shall bee séene that moste great lamentable and euerlasting seperation departing of the elect from the dampned and this departing shall be such as that the one parte shall be cast into hel Mark 9. into the fire that neuer shal be quenched out of which no wéeping teares can restore vs where sayth Mark that the worme dyeth not and the fire neuer goeth out when shall be fulfilled that heauie voice Wo be to you that are riche Luke 6. for you haue therein your consolation woe bee to you that are full for you shall hunger woe bee to you that now laugthe Math. 11. for yee shall waile and weepe and theÌ„ shall bee heard that voyce of terrour and wretchednesse saying Woe bee vnto thee Châ—rasin Woe bee to thee Bethsaida whiche so little regarded and estéemed the Myracles and the Doctryne doone in thee which if they had bene done in Tyre and Sydon they would haue repented in sackcloth and ashes Therefore I say to thee it shall be easier for Tyre and Sydon at the day of iudgement then for you And wo be to thee Capernaum which art lift vp euen to heauen being so proud thou shalt be brought downe into hell for if the miracles and doctrine done in thee had bene done in Zodome they had remained vndestroyed till this day therefore it shall be easier for the land of Zodome in the day of iudgement then for thee wherefore beware ye carelesse people howe you refuse the doctrine of Christ least you heape to your selues an hard iudgement at the day of the Lord make ye readie that you may go vp to the house of the Lord Esay 2. and to the house of the God of Iacob and walke in his pathes for Christ hath told signes wonders and tokens of his comming And he hath sent you many a Ionas to recall you to repentance and to teach you his doctrine of saluation therefore turne to God least that Nyniuie rise in iudgement against you and the woe of Bethsaida ouertake you for as it happened in the time of Noye so shall the comming of the sonne of man be they eate they drank they married wiues and were married Luk. 17. euen vnto the same day that the floud came and destroyed them all like wise also as it chanced in the daies of Lot they eate they dranke they bought they sold they planted they bilt and euen the same day that Lot went out of Zodome it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen and destroyed them all And after these examples shall it be in the day when the sonne of man eppeareth and then two shall be in bed the one receiued the other forsaken two grinding at the mill the one receiued the other forsaken Therefore harken O earth and ye indwellers of the earth to this terrible day of the Lord yea cast off your mantle of securitie and slacknes and open your blunt hartes and dull eares giuing a carefull eare to the sentence which the Apostles doe giue Matth. 19. Matth. 25. that shall sit with Christ in iudgement saying take cast the vnprofitable seruant into vtter darknesse And Iohn Paul saith That all vncleane persons that worke abominations Reuel 21. 1. Cor. 6. and lyes the fearefull vnbeleeuing murtherers whoremongers sorcerers Idolaters couetous drunkardes extortioners theeues weakelens cursed speakers enuious persons continuing to death without repentance from the bottome of the heart shal haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death for as the trée falleth so doeth it lie whereupon beware ye wicked worldlings sinners the delay and hold off froÌ„ time to time driue off froÌ„ true repentance amendment of life least your sinnes lie heauie vpon you and your heart grow hard in these sinnes can not repeÌ„t and so heape to your selues the treasure of wrath against the day of vengeaÌ„ce according to the prophesie of Enoch Saint Iude. saying behold the Lord shall come with thousands of saints to giue iudgement against all meÌ„ to rebuke all that are vngodly among them of all their vngodly deedes which they haue committed of all the cruell speakings which vngodly sinners haue spoken against him TheÌ„ shal the Lord cry with a loud voice Reuel 14. like a lion that roareth vnto his angels to thrust in the sharpe sicle and gather the clusters of the earth and to cut downe the grapes of the earth the wicked and sinfull people and cast theÌ„ into the great winefat of his wrath and the winefat is troden wtout the citie of new IerusaleÌ„ yea it is trodeÌ„ in the place of extreme darknes in the hideous dungen of hel in al horror of bloody sorrowes for the reward of sinne is death and hell where it stincke with brimstone that cannot be abodden where behold with piteous eyes how the soules of the dampned bewayle in woe where all mirth and ioye are turned to woes where all songes and musicke are wooes where feasting and banketting be woes where daunsing and loue toyes be wooes playes and pastimes be woes and where golde and siluer and all gay things of this worlde are chaunged into wretchednesse and woes And of all other this is the most dreadfull woe Eâ—trenseâ—â—â— which is the depriuation of hope from comming out of those wooes And thus the miserable dampned soules are euermore tormented with fire and brimstone and the smoke of their tormentes ascendeth vp for euer and euer And neuer haue rest day and night and they crye piteously to the Lorde and hee heareth not and though they neuer cease from teares yet the Lorde regardeth them not And then they knowe when it is too late that all worldly thinges are vanities and miseries and they woulde repent and it helpeth not and thus they weepe and wayls in dolourouse tormentes and gnawe their tongues in most rigorous paine And so in great burning they drink of the cup of Gods intollerable wrath and heauie displeasure and indignation and they still burne and neuer are burned they seeke death and death
dooth my Fathers will which is in heauen whereupon take warning O all ye people of the Lords and consider that narrowe is the way that leadeth to saluation and broade the way that leadeth to destruction for which cause be vigilant in all good conuersation and wel doing that you may keepe your selues in the narrowe path of Christ that you may find grace mercie in time of néede that when his glorie appeareth you may be merry and glad touching the which remember among many examples the forcible example of Dâ—â—es who being puffed vp with all wealthy prouision of lands and goodes liuing in the pleasure and securitie of this worlde Luke 16. regarded not goodnesse righteousnesse and mercie but contemned the poore so liued according to his owne froward thoughts and â—â—â—â—eites shewing no pitie and that 〈◊〉 to poore Lazarus â—â—â—â—ning to his gate for 〈◊〉 who had a true and patient heart to 〈◊〉 and miserie of life in this world And 〈◊〉 how this poore wretches 〈◊〉 to God was caryed into Abraham 〈◊〉 riche man for his wicked life 〈◊〉 heart is adiudged to hell torments and that he being in the burning 〈◊〉 of tortures and 〈◊〉 and beholding Lazarus as ioy â—â—d neuer after 〈◊〉 so much as one drop of 〈◊〉 scalding in the breaking 〈◊〉 take hee s to your selileâ— ye wealthy citizens ye rich gluttons voluptuous liuers couetous worldlings vncharitable hearts stiffs stomackes and vnmercifull people knowing that after that day repentance is too late so that be mindfull to lay vp treasures in heauen where neither theeues breake in nor mothes corrupt Matth. 6. that when the day of the Lord commeth thou maist find fauour to be in the bosome of Abraham with Lazarus in the euerlasting habitatioÌ„s and scape the danger of Diues torments where it is vnpossible euer to come out againe or euer to be released froÌ„ the horrour of woes therefore deceiue not thy selfe with the 〈◊〉 of a counterfet faint and cold repentance but put on true sineers faithfull repentance with a stedfast amendment of life making no longer delay least the arrowes of death or the sudden comming of the day of the Lord doth come vpon thee vnawares and so be found vnprouided like an vnprofitable seruant deseruing to be cast into darknes to whom the Lord shall say in his wrath Esay 3.1 it is ye the haue burnt vp my vineyard therefore depart froÌ„ me ye wicked whereby be ye mooued and stirred vp inwardly in your hearts knowing that it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God to sup the cuppe of his indignation when he shall say woe be to their soules which shal be heauily rewarded Esay 31. For the Lorde commeth saith Esay with â—â—â—e his charet shal be like a whirle wind that he may recoÌ„pence his vengeance in his wrath and his indignation in the flame of fire Esay 66. for the Lord shall iudge all flesh with the fire and with his sword for the hande of the Lorde shal be knowen among his seruants and his indignation among his enemies and I wil saith the Lord gather all people and tongues with their workes and imaginations and they shall sée my glorie for the Lord will hold his court regall with all flesh and then it shal be said Happie are the godly for they shal enioy the fruits of their works and labours but woe to the vngodly for they shall be recompens es after their euill deedes Oseas 7. and then at that day the Lorde shal say as in Oseas woe be do them for they haue forsaken mee they haue sowen winds therefore they shall reape a storme they must be destroyed for they haue set me at naught they haue plowed wickednesse and therefore shall reape the fruite of sinne which at that day of iudgement is the bitter paines of hell and damnation wherefore crucifie your earthly and fleshly members and s eeke for grace to replenish your heartes with heauenly thoughtes and deedes saying with Saint Iohn Reuel 1. He commeth and all eyes shall see him and they that pearced him and then all kindreds shall wayle Reuel 6. And heauen shall vanish away like a scroule when it â—â—â—olled together and all mountaines and Isles shall be mooued out of their places and the Kinges of the earth and the great men and the mightie men and the rich men and the captaines and euery bonde man and euery free man shall hide them selues in dennes and rockes of the hilles and say to the rockes and the hilles fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth in the seat and from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come and who can endure it Esay 2. For then saith Esay shall men creepe into the holes of stoue and into the caues of the earth from the sight of the fearefull Iudge and from the glorie of his Maiestie when he shall make him vp to shake the earth Nowe sée what a dreadfull day of trembling this is and howe feare shall ouertake all men high and lowe euen with vtter lamentation and despaire when the Lorde at that day which is at hande shall according to Micheas Mich. 1. come downe and treade vpon the high thinges of the earth and cleaue the heauens asunder that the mountaines shall consume vnder him Thess 1.4 and the valleyes rent in pieces according to Paul The Lorde shall discende from heauen with a shoute and the voyce of the Archaungel trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first and then shal wee which remaine be caught vp with them also in the cloudes Cor. 1.15 to meete the Lord in the aire for the trumpet shall blowe and the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shal be chaunged in a moment and in the twinckeling of an eye at the sounde of the last trumpet for this corruptibilitie must put on corruptibiltie and this mortalitie must put on immortalitie then death shal be coÌ„sumed into victory for now the time is the though you be scattered to dust and ashes or in the waues of the sea and wrapt in the corners of the earth dennes of hell yet can you not escape froÌ„ God for euery place shall giue vp all their dead at the voice of Christ the iudger of the quicke and the dead Reue. â—0 and then shall the bookes bee opuned and the dead iudged of those thinges which are written in the bookes according to their deedes When according to the Scripture shall the names of the righteous be manifest and also the names of the vngodly with their woorks be declared wherfore put on the garmnets of God that yée may bee found to prayse and honor when Christe our high king of kinges commeth to iudgement when all knées shall bowe giue accoÌ„ptes to God Iohn 5. for which cause it néerly behooueth vs to walk in
the way of godlines and to follow Christe setting our affection in heauen that according to Paule when Christ which is our lyfe shall shewe him self that wée also may appeare with him in glory therfore saieth Iames Coloss 3. be yée patient vnto the comming of the Lord and settle your harts in goodnes Ieames 5. for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh when wée shall see him as hee is and bee lyke him made by him the sonnes of God who shall chaunge our vile bodies to be facioned lyke to his glorious body that wée shal enioy the fruition of his euerlasting tabernacle heauenly Ierusalem at his apperance againe to s aluation wherunto hee called vs by the Gospell to obtaine the glorie that commeth of our Lord Iesus Christe for Christe dyed for vs that wee should be partakers of his kingdome and haue our names in the booke of lyfe as s ayeth the Apostle wée shall be deliuered from this bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God Rom. 8. according to Christ s aying I am the resurrectioÌ„ and life he that Iohn 12. beleeueth in mee yea though hee were dead yet shall hee lyue and whoso euer lyueth and beleeueth in mee shall not dye for euer according to Luke Luke 20. They which be made woorthy to inioy the kingdome of the world to come and the resurrection from death can dye no more for they are equall to the Angells and are the sonnes of God for saith Christe Reue. 2 3. He that ouercommeth and is faithfull to the end I will giue him to eate of the tree of lyfe whiche is in the midst of the Paradice of God and he shall haue a crowne of lyfe and shall not be hurt of the second death but haue his name in the booke of lyfe and be a piller in the temple of my God and shall sit with me in my seate and this is the victorie that ouercoÌ„meth the world euen our stedfast and vnfeigned faith in Iesus Christe by whome GOD hath giuen vnto vs eternall lyfe and to bee glorified by him at the day of his appearance when the misterie of Gods will shall be opened in his sonne Iesus Christe at his comming at the end of the world at which time shall be performed that all that haue done well shall go into euerlasting lyfe and all that hath done euill into euerlasting dampnation Therfore let vs fight the good fight of faith and walk as children of the day waiting with stedfast hope for the adoption and fruition of the heauenly kingdome that wée may méete him ioyfully comming in the cloudes and receiue the garland of glorification crown of eternall lyfe Iohn 1.5 and so be clothed with our heauenly mansion and translated into his kingdome there receiuing the glorious garments of immortalitie and the blessednes of our new IerusaleÌ„ where beholde loe wée shall shine as bright as the sunne beames béeing in all glorie in the presence of the brightnes of our omnipotent and resplendant GOD. To the obtaining of the high rewarde whereof watch and pray that your conuersation may be according to the Gospell and therefore let this be your watchman while you heare do lyue to think 〈…〉 Saint Ierome that whether you eate or drink or what so euer elles you dooe that moste dreadfull Troumpet soundeth in your eares Aryse you dead and come vnto Iudgement O Lord God almightie which art and wast and art to come who art Alpha and Omega to thee be all prayse Reue. 7. honor and glorie and all power and dignitie be ascribed to the almightie maker sitting vpon the seate and vnto the Lamb for euermore for now all thy people are gathered togither in thy sonne Iesus Christe that the misterie of thy holy will may be declared Ephe. 1. beeing called by the troump of the Arch-angell to come vnto the mouÌ„t SioÌ„ and to the citie of the liuing God the celestial Ierusalem and to an innumerable sight of Angels Heb. 12. and vnto the congrogation of the first borne soÌ„nes which are written in heauen and to God the iudge of all and to the spirits of iust and perfect men to Iesus the mediator of the new Testament Phil. 3. who dooth change our vile bodies to be facioned like to his glorious body therfore to thee be prayse honour and power world with out end AMEN THE GLORIOVS AND BEAVTIFVL GARlande of mans glorification CAP. 3. The mysterie of the glorious comming of Christ at the end of the worlde and howe he shall sit in his glittering seate of Maiestie in all brightnesse of glorie power and dominion And where and howe all thinges both in heauen and earth shall be gathered together in Christ and see his glorie and in him our glorification EXcellent was the coÌ„ming of God when in his glorie like shining fire he came downe vpon mount Sinai where Moyses brought the people out of the tentes to meete the Lorde so marueilously descending downe vpon the hill which burnt with fire eueÌ„ vnto the middes of heauen Exod. 19. and the Lorde spake vnto them with his mightie thundring voyce out of fire Deut. 4. that it was exceeding fearefull and also so wonderfull glorious that wheÌ„ Moyses had talked with God the people were not able to beholde the glistering beautie and brightnesse of Moyses face Exod. 34. But nowe howe shall his glorie bee exalted in the highest what time he shall make him vp to shake the earth in the ende of the worlde when the appearance of his comming shall exceede in all greatnesse of power and might according to Micheas Micheas â— The Lorde shall come out of his holy place Micheas 1. and come downe and â—â—eade vpon the high things of the earth that the mountaines shall consume vnder him and the valleyes cleaue asunder And then the Sunâ—â—e and Moone shall be ashamed at his glorious face of incomparable clearenesse brightnes from which all the beautie glorie and pompe of this world shall flée away into rebuke dishonour not able to endure the perfection of his beautie and incomprehensible pureness e before whome it consumeth to nought perish and vanish away for euer and thâ—â— O how Christ shall glister in the magnificence of his omnipotent kingly maiestie in the preheminence noe of dignitie aboue dignities that all the glorie of kings kingdomes shall giue place and vanish at his mightie appearance not worthy to endure the glorie of his coÌ„ming before which they waste and fall into emptines and he shall shew him selfe from the top of the high heauens with such triumphant power of vnspeakeable glorie dominion and might that from his presence shall â—â—â—â—away â—eâ—rth heauens and their place no more souÌ„d for he shall shake the earth againe remooue â—â—â—ne away those things which haue ended their course wheÌ„ the powres of heauen the vniuers al frame of this world shal