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B01207	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 3 of Nouember 1594. intreating of the second comming of Christ, and the disclosing of Antichrist. : With a confutation of diuerse coniectures concerning the end of the world, conteyned in a booke intituled, The second comming of Christ. / Preached by Iohn Dove.	Dove, John,	1594 (1594)	STC 7086.5; ESTC S91767	27,513	64

which affirme that the world shall neuer haue an ende it followeth that wee touch the second kinde of men which are Christians but of two sorts Protestants and Papists which both expect the accōplishment of this last houre but erre in this that they go another way too far and seeming to know that which they know not enter into the secrets of God the Protestants directly and the Papists by a necessary consequent do define and determine when the world shall haue an end And therefore as the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 1. when they professed themselues wise they became foolish Some Protestants haue published a booke greatly esteemed of amongst the common people in which is maintayned this argument That the frame of Heauen must needes be dissolued The secōd comming of Christ within a certainty of daies and the principall reasons whereby they vndertake the proofe of their phantasies are these fiue which follow The first is a blind prophesie which they father vpō Elias not read of in the scripturs but in the Rabbies Talmud of the Iewes that the worlde could last but six thousand years after the first creation two thousand vnder nature two thousand vnder the law and two thousand vnder grace The time of nature they define to be from the first creation to Abraham to whom the law of circumcision was giuen the time of the law frō Abraham to the preaching of Iohn the Baptist which began in the 30. yeare of the incarnation of Christ the time of grace frō the preaching of Iohn to the day of iudgement And say they as Elias liued after the first 3000. yeares were expired and then was taken vp aliue in his fierie chariot so after the other 3000. yeares shall be accomplished those that shal be found at that time quicke on the earth must bee taken vp in the cloudes to meete our Sauiour comming to iudgement For answere whereof besides that they erre in their computation of yeares which is manifest to them which are conuersant in the Histories of the bible we vtterly denie and renounce the authoritie of the Rabbies and Iewish Talmud as superstitious and false not giuing credite to any thing which is written of Elias in them more than may be proued out of the most holy scriptures and so consequently denying that Elias euer writ anie such prophesie wee displaye the weakenesse of that argument in this manner It is a rule Logicke that a similitude must not holde in all things but onely in that whereto it is applied Wherefore forasmuch as Paul writeth That we shall not all sleepe 1. Cor. 15. because as it is in the article of our Creede Christ shall come to iudge both the quicke and the dead true it is that Elias which was taken vp quicke was a liuely tipe of them which shall be found quicke at the day of iudgement for as he was taken vp aliue so they must bee taken vp aliue without tasting of death onely their corruptible bodies beeing chaunged but it is no good consequent either in Logicke or Diuinitie that bicause Elias was a type of them in this one thing therefore as Elias was taken vp after the first 3000. yeares therefore they must also be taken vp when the other 3000. yeares be ended The vnsufficiencie of this argument I will shewe you by the like Henoch was a type of them which shall bee found quicke at the day of Iudgement as well as Elias But Henoch was taken vp aliue and translated to a better life in the 987. yeare of the worlde if therefore the former argument drawne from Elias bee good this also must follow that the day of iudgement should haue bin nine hundred eightie seuen yeares after the translation of Henoch so that the worlde should not haue endured in all two thousand yeares after the first creation Furthermore they affirme that some part of the last thousand yeares must be defalcated and cut off for the elects sake which is a meere contradiction to that which went before for then can not the prophesie which they father vpon Elias be true that the worlde should continue 6000. yeares And this defalcation of yeares they proue by the answere of the Angell vriel which beeing asked whether the time to come were shorter then the time past answered As the 2. Esd 4. raine is more than the droppes and as the fire exceedeth the smoke so the portion that is past hath the vpper hand Whereas in deede there is no proofe of defalcation for besides that this Scripture is Apocrypha and therefore no sufficient proofe and they erre with the Papists affuming that it is Canonicall and their argumentes which they borrow of Theodorus Bibliander against Saint Ierom a man of greater authoritie than himselfe to proue that it is Canonicall because it teacheth the euerlasting kingdome of Christ the reprobation of the Gentiles and election of the Iewes are not sufficient proofs because the works of men do teach the same things wheras no workes of men are Canonicall Esdras liued about 3600 years after the creation so that then the time to come might bee shorter than the time past without any defalcation of yeares or dayes Secondly they dispute in this maner A thousand yeares with God are as one day Psal 90. 2. Pet. But as God labored six dayes and rested the seuenth so shal God be in action as it were for the preseruation of the same and gathering togither of his Church sixe thousand yeares proportionably to those sixe dayes and then shall be a perpetuall Sabboth And as in time past they began the celebration of the Sabboth at the midst of Exod. 20. the sixt day making halfe holy day and so laboured the weeke daies but fiue daies and an halfe so halfe of the last thousand years must be cut off It shall not be needfull to answer the presumptions of men which are not groūded vpon scripture nor sound reason but the weaknes of that argument shall appeare by the like 1500. years before god are not so much as one hour For so writeth the Apostle Babes it is the last houre Fifteen hundred years are expired yet the houre 1. Iohn 2 is not ended but 24. hours make one day so that if 1500. years be reckoned but for one houre sixe and thirtie thousand yeares are but one day before god so that if the world continue six dayes it must indure by that computation two hundred and sixteene thousand yeares This is as good a reason out of Saint John to proue the continuance of the worlde two hundred and sixteen thousand yeares as that is out of S. Peter to proue that it shall stand 6000. years Thirdly thus they cōclude Christ was manifested 1. Pet. 1 Heb. 2 in the flesh in the last time And He was offered once in the end of the world But if thē were the end of the world the middle was past therefore but 2000.