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A07289 Saint Peters watch word the end of all things is at hand / digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister ; perused and allowed. Mavericke, Radford, b. 1561? 1603 (1603) STC 17683A; ESTC S450 71,286 178

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haue not knowne the way of the Lord. Last of all the remembrance of their glory in this world doth most of all torment them saying among themselues what hath the pride of this world profited vs or what profit hath the pompe of riches brought vs all those things are passed away like a shadow Then it followeth for the hope of the vngodly is like the dust that is blowen away with the winde but the righteous shall liue for euer And all this is according to the righteous iudgement of God Psal 9.8 Who shall Iudge the world in righteousnesse and minister true iudgement vnto the people as Dauid speaketh in the 9. Psalme Hereupon then we conclude that God euen in this world in the vprightnesse of his Iustice doth deferre the Iudgement of the wicked at times and also suffers many times the godly to be most vniustly Iudged and wronged by the vngodly for causes left knowne to his wisedome of whose wronges he will surely be reuenged either in this world or in the world to come or in both Neither as a godly Father hath well noted doth God cease to shew continually tokens of his Iustice euen in this life lest any should thinke God were altogether vniust and had no regard how matters passed in this world On the contrary he doth not punish all the vngodly ones of this world at leastwise for all their vngodlinesse for then he should leaue nothing for the iudgement to come And withall it is to be noted that euen those Iudgements which God at any time doth execute vpon the godlesse in this world are but onely beginnings of their torments to come to the which they shall eternally be Iudged at the last day except they repēt And so much for that Saint Paule calleth the day of Iudgement a day of wrath a day of reuealing and a day of the righteous Iudgement of God I will not indeuour further to enlarge this Chapter by any curious searching of any other attributes or names wherby this day of Iudgement is noted vnto vs in the Scriptures whereof I know there are many other both in the olde and newe Testament for as much as I seeke not a multitude of examples to fill the page but onely fitte examples to confirme the godly and to strike a terror into the harts of the godlesse for their good if at least any thing may terrifie them Onely for the further comfort of the godly who with great patience must waite for the comming of their Master Let it not be forgotten that our Sauiour himselfe in the Gospell after he hath noted many fearefull signes that shall goe before and accompanie this great iudgement for the confounding of the wicked he addeth a most comfortable exhortation to al the godly bidding them to lift vp their heads and reioyce The day of iudgement called a day of redemption Luke 21.28 for that the day of their redemption is at hand for then and vpon that day all the faithfull shall be sure to receaue the effect of their former redemption purchased by the death of Christ and also the end of their faith which is their eternall saluation both in soule and body in the life to come This day thus noted vnto vs in the scriptures hath been yet is vsually called of the godly The day of doome because then the last doome or definitiue sentence shall be giuen vpon all flesh neuer to be reuoked It is also called commonly the day of the second comming of Christ And the day of Christ his comming which shal be in infinite glory to counteruaile his first comming in the flesh in so great basenesse and humilitie Lastly The day of iudgement called t●● last day it is rightly called by our Sauiour three times in one Chapter The last day because all daies and time it selfe shal end with it for as time began when the world began so with the world it must needes haue an end Therefore is it that the Angell sweareth so solemnly in the Reuelation I● 6.39.44.54 such an other oath we shall hardly finde in all the Scriptures Ren. 10.5.6 By him that liueth for euermore which created heauen the things which therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the Sea and the thinges which therin are that Time shal be no more meaning after this world is ended Now God of his great mercy therefore giue vs grace wisely to consider of the seasons and to make benefite of the time wherein we liue and also to be assured that this time or day will come how soone he onely knoweth that knoweth all things though all the Epicures in the world haue sworne the contrary The rather for that we are assured all of the signes fore prophesied in the scriptures to come to passe before that day are well neare accomplished and fulfilled whereof we are to intreate in the Chapter following The fourth Chapter THe signes and tokens that shall goe before this great and generall Iudgement are thus diuided by some Into signes Physicall In the heauens earth and Sea Signes Politicall in Countries and common-wealthes Signes Ecclesiasticall in Church and Church-men which deuision is good and may well be followed howbeit my purpose is not at this time to enter into any curious discourse but onely briefely and plainely to discouer and lay open such signes and tokens as the Scripture doth forewarne vs of that shall come before this day whereof many no doubt are past and some may be yet to come which we will also note as we speake of them in perticular And albeit I say there may be some fignes and tokens that are not yet fully accomplished No man ought to defer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let no man therefore defer his repentance or thinke the day of iudgement to be the further off for that for I suppose there be tokens that shal be seene to come before that day no otherwise then the lightning before the thunder betweene the which there will be no time for the obstinate sinners to repent but euen for the faithfull and godly To lift vp their heads and to reioyce for that their redemption is so nigh The signes and tokens that shall goe before this great and fearefull daie of Iudgement hath Christ the Iudge himselfe in token of his loue vnto vs described and made knowne howbeit somewhat darkely to the end the godly should consider thereof the more carefully as the wicked do passe them ouer contemptuously which signes we will briefely recite as they are deliuered vs by Christ himselfe his faithful Euangelists Apostles Luke 21. Then shal be signes saith Saint Luke in the sunne and in the Moone in the starres which no doubt haue been accomplished fulfilled that in this last age of the world by most strange extraordinary eclipses of the Sun of the Moone by fearful vnwonted comets blasing stars that haue appeared as wel to vs as
exhorting vs vnto sobrietie watchfulnesse and prayer As if he should say The end of all things is at hand and the Iudge is at the doore ready to take vengeance of all vngodlinesse and intemperancie By yee therefore sober The day of his comming is altogether vncertain Be ye therfore vigilant watchful If this be to hard for fraile flesh to performe fly vnto Prayer which maketh the hardest things easie to be done Be yee sober 1. Pet. 4 7. and watch vnto Prayer Of either of these three briefely Sobrietie Watchfulnesse and Prayer Of Sobrietie or Temperancie we haue heretofore spoken sufficiently I trust to instruct them that are godly and in loue with that vertue it is the fourth linke in Saint Peters Chaine In this place therefore by way of digression I will indeuor to speake briefely of Intemperancy the very bane cut-throate of all Christianitie and Pietie and a most cruell enimie vnto all good gouernement and policie There is a saying Nemo laeditur nisi a se ipso euery man is the worker of his owne woe I pray God the generall Intemperancie of this land doe not viper-like eate out the bowels thereof The stinging of a Viper they say at the first doth yeelde a certaine tickling delight to all the outward sences but assoone as the infected bloud comes to the hart presently the body is in daunger of death what pleasing delight is dayly taken in Intemperancie by all the sences I meane by all sorts and sexts of people in this land as in other places of the worlds it may better be felt then seene when Paule had but one viper on his hand Acts. 28 4● all the standers by looked that hee should haue fallen downe dead presently But this countrey being stung with the venome of vipers I meane all kinde of filthy vices not in the band onely but in euery part of the body yet no man feareth the ruine or fall thereof Most true it is that we which li●e in the latter end of this last age of the world liue in the time and vnder the climate of all intemperancy I hope the end is the neerer at hand to redresse all that is amisse my minde is not and if my minde would serue time would not suffer me particularly to point out all the sinnes of intemperancy that abonnd at this day euery where among vs. There are foure cardinall sinnes vpon the which also the rest doe hang Pride Couetousnesse Whooredome Drunkennesse which for their swiftnes in running ouer the world may well be compared to the foure wheeles of the diuels chariot in the which chariot he daily carrieth cart-loads of soules into hell These sinnes together with the other sinnes of Sodome tumble in one on anothers backe like the waues of the Sea there is neither meane nor measure kept in any of them Onely least I should slaunder any with the truth in drinking they say they haue Law as strong as the Lawe of the Medes and Persians that euery one must drinke by measure but without any meane they must drinke off al their measure and leaue none yea I heare and I haue onely heard of it that our new dubd ale knights whereof we haue great store in the countrey inough to ransack any city in Spain if they were vnarmed of their Ale well marshalled doe in their dayly drinkings to their measure of drinke adde a certain set number of words which may bee termed the tossepots watch-word and therin not onely take their delight but many of them spend their whole thrift at the Ale-house leauing their wiues familise alone vncarde for so they may sit singing swinging themselues in good Ale from morning to night it is all that they care for and all the good or rather euil they desire to do except it be also to raile at those that be good and that are wont to reprooue them for this their ●eastlinesse This measurable drinking or rather vnmeasurable and vnreasonable quaffing carrowsing whereof I haue also spoken in the first Chapter will nay already doth begin to breed a great scarcity of Corne and grayne in our Countrey It cannot be denied but that there are already many good lawes in force to punish those dayly drunkards but neuer worse executed then at this day and some are of good hope that there shall be straiter and more seuere Lawes prouided against drunkennesse For I verily thinke and I wish experience prooue it not to bee true that drunkennesse is more hurtfull and dangerous to this Common-wealth wherein wee liue then common theft and therefore I pray God to put it into the harts of all good Common weales men specially those that are in high places and authoritie to vse all good meanes for the redressing thereof and before better or straiter Lawes be enacted to giue straiter charge to all other inferiour officers to execute with all seueritie as in a matter of great necessity appertaineth the lawes of our land already prouided which hitherto of a long time haue bin very much neglected at least in some quarters of this Countrey which will surely grow to a greater disease then many thinke off if it bee not the sooner cured which thing hath caused me often to speake and now to write more against this vice of drunkennesse both here and in the first Chapter then many happely will thinke it fit and conuenient to be spoken of in so smal a treatise howbeit if my words preuaile any thing to the killing of this stinging viper drunkennesse I will confesse I haue spoken inough if nothing that I haue written too much except for the discharge of mine owne conscience And as for the three other capitall vices of intemperancie Pride Couetousnesse and Whooredome I thinke they may be compared to the heads of Hydra for euery head that is cut off by the sword of the Preachers for other punishment there is little or none there spring vp an hundred in the place in such sort that Preachers are almost weried any longer to florish their swords of Gods word to cut downetheir sinnes except it would please the godly Magistrate to draw out of their sheathes or scabbards their sharpest swords of Iustice which in particular Sheathes I feare are waxen rustie for want of vse and so to ioyne their armies and forces together to kill or at least to keepe downe those monstrous Hydras which otherwise are like to spoyle deuoure this little land Let it therfore be looked vnto betimes for feare we repent too late for there is no daunger compared to that daunger which is not feared Citties and Countreyes Townes and Villages doe euery where stinke with these filthy and beastly sinnes Pride Couetousnesse Whooredome Drunkennesse Pride must needs haue Couetousnes as a mistresse to maintaine her and Drunkennesse must haue Whoredome and Lechery for a handmaid to attend on her Sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus Wine and women make many men runnagates Pride and Riot