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A07087	A second sound, or vvarning of the trumpet vnto judgement Wherein is proued, that all the tokens of the latter day, are not onelie come, but welneere finished. With an earnest exhortation, to be in continuall readinesse. By Anthonie Marten sewer of her Maiesties most honorable chamber.	Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1589 (1589)	STC 17491; ESTC S107009	43,965	86

him can no more be remoued out of his seate than euer the vngodly seede of Antichrist are so offended therewith as they betray into wicked hands their owne countrimen their kinred and acquaintance yea they hate their own brethren seek their destruction And this did Christ foreshewe to happen in the ende of the world Fiftly he declared that at the same time manie false Prophetes should arise and deceiue a multitude For when Antichrist perceiued that he might not preuaile by anie of those vile and violent meanes that hee had practized but that his power neuerthelesse decreased and his al hominable superstition and idolatrie was daily more and more disclosed he erected certein Seminarie places for learning with good maintenaunce to the same for all those that would resort vnto them of all nations to the ende they might bee sent home againe after they haue been certeine yeres ripened and rottened in superstitious doctrine that by their fained hypocrisie and by their false fables and prophesies they might reconcile all those that were fled from the Antichristian faith promising them so manie and so great matters as their holy Father by his Commission had giuen them in charge And these ministers of his be they which Paule the Apostle said To haue the forme of godlinesse but denie the power thereof haue by their false prophesies 2. Thess 3. caried away manie poore soules captiue into hell and themselues also are damned for euer without repentaunce And this token of the Lordes comming is nowe likewise fulfilled Againe Christ hath declared that before the iudgment day iniquitie shall abound and the loue of manie shall wexe colde But what kinde of iniquitie do we think shal aboūd before the second coming of Christ Verelie al kinde of sine and wickednesse that euer was in the world since the creation of the same not onely the secrete sinnes that proceede from mans heart whereby the whole man is corrupted but the publike offences and enormities done by man against man against God against the Church against the Common weale and against all iustice godlinesse and Religion And is it anie maruell why all wickednesse shoulde abounde now towards the ende more than euer before why the charitie of man towardes man why the loue of man towardes God why the zeale of man towardes godlinesse should now bee lesse than before though now the word of God be more plentifullie preached that before the sacraments more sincerely ministred than before heresies false worshipping more sōudlie conuinced than before the true Church from the false more euidently discerned than before Antichrist himselfe more plainly detected than before and our saluation now more neere at hand than before No verely For now is the time that Christ prescribed neuer before Now is Sathan our olde enimie loosed now it Antichrist his seruant reuealed For euer since the time that the kingdome of Christ hath been reuiued by preaching of the Gospell the Dragon hauing the time of his thousand yeeres captiuitie welneere expired and perceiuing his dominion to be but short is come foorth to aide and strengthen and heale the wound of the beast against the Saintes of God and against the Lambe Who ioyning their forces together seeke by their craftie and lying hypocrisie not onely to bereaue men of their saluation by deceiuing and bewitching of their soules and by driuing them forwarde to all manner of sinne and wickednesse but also to destroy their bodies and all by bringing in vpon them all manner of cruel Inquisitions warres torments miseries and deathes that man can deuise Wherefore the nature of man being euer more and more corrupted since the fall of Adam therewithall driuen by the violent inticement of sin and perswasion of the diuell it is not possible without the mightie assistance of Gods spirite but that iniquitie should not onely abound but euen nowe be growen to the full And to speake more particularlie of the sinnes against God against man and against our owne selues I say that they doe now by meanes of Antichrist and his adherentes more infinitely abounde than euer Whereby it may euidently appeare that the dissolulution of all thinges is at hande Was not Lucifer an Angell of light and desired in his heart to be but equal with God And is Antichrist any more thā man somewhat lower than the Angels and yet exalteth himselfe aboue God Did Adam breake any more commaundements of God then one when he was ashamed and cast out of Paradice But do not we daylie breake all the commaundements of God and yet are not once ashamed of our nakednesse Was not Cayn counted a reprobat because he was angrie with God and killed his owne brother about the accepting of their sacrifices But are not wee euery day vexed and disquieted against God if but the least attempt that we go about succeed not according to our desire But bee there not also as greeuous and horrible paricides and murders among vs euen for the smallest and least occasions Was it not counted a monstrous and horrible Idolatrie of the Children of Israel when they forgot God that had brought them out of the land of Egipt and worshipped a golden Calfe which they themselues had made because that Moses the seruant of God and their generall Captaine was but fourtie dayes absent from them Agayne is not the Idolatrie in these dayes of them that professe the name of Christ beyond al comparison greater when they forsake him that redeemed them from the power of Sathan and do daylie worship stockes and stones and a peece of vnleauened bread when as Christ himselfe their head and Captaine is continually present with them by his holy Saincts and Godhead vntill the end of the world Was not the infidelitie of the Children of Israell counted exceeding great when as they beleeued not the promises of GOD who had done so great wonders for them both in Egipt and at the red Sea For which cause they themselues were destroyed and their children were made to wander fourtie yeares in the wildernesse for the sinnes of their fathers But is not the infidelitie of the Christians in our time much more horrible when as GOD hath done for them farre greater thinges then euer he did for the Children of Israell euen by sending his owne Sonne for their sakes into the world to deliuer them from the slauerie of Sathan and euerlasting destruction of bodie and soule where he keepeth them as the apple of his eye from being consumed of the nations round about them when hee talketh with them daylie and familiarlie from heauen out of his holie worde when hee feedeth them from aboue with his owne precious bodie when hee indueth them with grace supernaturall by his holie spirite when hee blesseth them with all his benefites both bodily and ghostly and yet are not we more vnfaithfull vnthankfull and vnfruitfull than the Children of Israell They beleeued not because the time of the promises vnto them made

hard hearted that there is No example of temporall punishments in other no feele of Gods wrath in our selues no threatning of Gods vengance to come no remembrance of punishments past no remorse of conscience for our sinnes no promise of temporall blessings no assurance of eternall rewards neither signes in heauen aboue nor tokens in the earth beneath nor the hope of euerlasting saluatiō nor feare of perpetuall damnation that can once effectually moue vs to amend our liues and make vs to forsake the sinne that reigneth in our mortall bodies although we know die kingdome of heauen to be neuer so neere nay euen at the very doore Wherefore I feare me it will be pronounced against vs that was sometime against the vnbeleeuing cities of Iuda Woe be vnto you Christians and especiallie you that haue takē vpon you to reforme my Church and to haue my Gospell preached among you woe I say bee vnto you For if the signes and myracles that haue bin in your time and among you had bin done among the Turkes and Infidels yea among the most sauadge Indians of the world they would long since haue repented insackecloth and ashes O that wee would open the fountaines of our heart and powre in contrition into our soule O that wee had a floud of teares to bewaile the multitude of our sinnes O that we would haue but some parte of that affection towards our selues that the creatures of God haue towards vs For they mourne and lament for our sins they long for our deliuerance because of our sinnes The earth trembleth quaketh because of our sinns The Sonne and the Moone want of their light and beautie for our sinnes The Heauens powre downe floudes of destruction for our sinnes The plants and hearbes lacke their vertue and operation for our sinnes The windes goe foorth of their places the seasons of the yere keepe not their wonted course for our sinnes yea the natures of all creatures are in a manner changed for our sinnes But what shall I saye more The Angels of God doe mourne for our sins The verie soules of the righteous doe lament for our sinnes And it greeueth the spirite of God himselfe that we persist in our sinnes But all this mooueth not our senses nor yet melteth our owne heartes for our sinnes All that we speake all that we write all the labor we take is in vaine For our heart is as hard as the Adamant and our soule refuseth counsell Euerie man speaketh of the mercies of GOD Euerie man acknowledgeth his benefits Euerie man hath the word of God in his lippes Euerie man crieth Lorde Lord but no man dooth the will of his heauenlie Father Euerie man confesseth the tokens of Christ to bee come but no man prepareth him selfe his comming No man maketh attonement with his brother no man sheweth the fruites of faith no man forsaketh his wicked life no man keepeth his vessell pure and holie to the Lorde Euerie man blameth euerie man reprooueth euerie man condemneth shamefull actes in others but no man amendeth anie one sinne in himselfe O gracious GOD why shoulde thy people thus forget thee why shoulde they bee thus stiff-necked against thee why shoulde they so deepelie dissembled with thee why shoulde they make as though they beleeued thy worde when they bee so farre from reforming of their liues why should they be so rauished with earthlie delightes that perish in a moment and contemne the hauenlie ioyes which continue for euer why shoulde they bee thus distraught from the sense and feele of hapinesse to followe the delightes and pleasures of their owne fancies Shal the care of transitorie riches of this world drowne the desire of glorie in the worlde to come Shall the vglie and deceaueable lustes of sinne that breede long and bitter repentaunce preuaile aboue the beautifull contemplation of thine eternall Godhead Shall this vale of miserie wherein wee see nothing but sinne and wickednesse nothing but care and vexation of minde nothing but perilles by lande and sea at home and abroade in bedde and at boord in freedome and in bondage in pouertie in welth in honour and disgrace at all times and in all places both in life and in death bee more deepelie printed in our heart than the Kingdome of Christ wherein the bodie shall bee chaunged from corruption to immortalitie from dishonour to glorie from weakenesse to strength from a naturall bodie to a spirituall bodie wherein all paines and sorrowes shall bee vtlie vanished and all quietnesse and tranquilitie of conscience shall dwell for euermore Nay shall the affection which wee beare to father or mother or brother or sister or wife or children or landes or goods or to haue die whole earth at our becke and commaundement once seperate vs from the loue that is in Christ Iesus from the companie that wee shall haue with his holie Angells from the fellowship of all the godlie and elect people and from the continuall fruition of Gods diuine presence and Maiestie GOD forbid What is the cause then that wee so greedelie imbrace and laye holde vpon these transitorie thinges Nothing verelie but the corruption of our owne nature the following of our owne sensuall pleasures and the instigation of the diuell who laboureth now towardes the ende of the worlde more stronglie than euer to drawe all the soules that he can into damnation with himselfe of whom we to our great shame stande in seare as though Christ our Conqueror had neuer redeemed vs as though he that had once saued vs could no more defende vs. But alas why shoulde wee not continuallie and vnfainedlie praye vnto God to assist vs and with the strength of his holie spirite to defende vs from all our wicked enemies that in him by him we may haue grace to vanquish and ouercome whensoeuer we are pressed or disquieted either in bodie or minde But as concerning sinne albeit wee for our owne parts haue made such a couenant with death as whatsoeuer be said vnto vs we will not amend haue entered into such a league with hell that we will not be saued albeit we haue refused the mercie of God that calleth all men to repentance and would all men to be saued yet after we haue once receaued the knowledge of the truth and haue been baptized in the name of Christ and haue promised to liue in his true faith and feare let vs neuer so treade vnder foote the Sonne of God nor worke such despite vnto the spirit of grace that through our vngodlie and sinfull life we shoulde make the Gentiles to hate the name of Christ for our sakes and by this meanes to keepe both out selues and others too out of the kingdome of Christ Which otherwise if they saw our iust and sincere conueration answerable to the forme of our profession they would ioyne them selues vnto the bodie of Christ so magnifie his name ouer all the world Shall not the zeale of our forefathers who in

comparison of vs that haue the light of the Gospell liued but in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death be a notable testimony against vs in the day of iudgemēt since they feared god more reuerētly serued him more willingly obeyed him more dutifully and loued him more feruently thē we Since they had more compasston vpon their pore brethren more deuotion vnto al good workes and more regard to their owne saluation then we Since they had lesse dissimulation lesse craft lesse hypocrisie lesse malice lesse couetousnesse less wickedness in their life then we Compare the great zeale of our predecessors with the colde deuotion that wee haue in these daies and we shall be ashamed of our selues The good deedes which were done by them were done simplie either for the loue they bare to God or as they tooke it for the honor of his seruice and religion or of a compassion to their poore brethren or for the safetie of their owne soules or of a zeale they bare to their parents departed or for a benefite to the Common wealth or to ease the burthen of their successors or for the furtherance of Schooles and learning or for some such other either good or wel-meaning intent But on the other side what little good soeuer we doe we doe it neither of a lone towards GOD nor of a charitable minde towards our neighbour nor of any remorse of conscience in our selues nor yet of any affection towards our natiue countrie but all that the most of vs do we do it either for vaine glorie or for pleasing of other mens humours or to bee seene and praised of men or to auoyd the clamor of the world or by compulsion and commandement or for feare of shame and punishment or by importunate sute that is made or because wee knowe not els what to do with that we haue Wherefore the former with their blind zeale and supposed good intent shall rise vp in the daie of iudgement and condemne vs for the fruitlesse ostentation and boasting of our faith If the men of Niniuie which repented at the preaching of Ionas and the Queene of the South that came so farre to heare the wisedome of Salomon shall rise in iudgement against the Iewes that would not beleeue and amend for all that could bee said vnto them by Christ and the Prophets What shall so manie Prophets and Preachers of God do against vs in that day who daily hourelie and continuallie rebuke vs for our sinnes and stirre vs vp by all meanes to amendment of our liues shewing vs that the daie of the Lord is at hand O Iesus why should we now be further from the obeying of thee than when wee were further from thee Shall the brightnes of thy presence and the light of thy blessed word which lighteneth euerie man that commeth into the world and whose propertie is to giue light and saluation to all them that will receiue the same shall it shine I saie vppon such stonie and grauelie hearts as haue no power to bring forth true repentance nor any fruites of a godlie life And shall the Deuill so preuaile against them for whom thou hast shed thy most precious bloud that sodainlie vppon the reuealing of Antichrist and sending of new Ambassadours from thee to put thinges in order against thy comming he shall turne the hearts of all men from all goodnesse and vertue to vice and crueltie alter the natures of things from better to worse bring in Schisme Atheisme Treason and all vngodlines into the worlde and make iniquitie flowe beyond measure ouer all the bankes of the earth Howbeit Lorde if this bee thy will and that by no other meanes thy holie word should bee verified namelie that wickednesse should so mightilie abound before thy comming If thy promise should on this wise bee fulfilled If thy chosen must on this manner bee tried and that this should bee one of the last tokens of thy comming wee accept all these things as Oracles sent before and wee assuredlie looke for thine owne selfe in person to followe Wherefore ye my brethren of the Church of England for whose cause specially I haue written this second warning or sound of the last Trompet beare in minde all these thinges that I haue declared vnto you Examine your owne consciences whether ye haue not tasted of the blessings of GOD in measure more aboundantlie in fauour more apparantlie in mercie more infinitlie and in signes and tokens more wonderfullie than anie nation in the world Againe consider with your selues how all these graces and mercies haue been requited of you Whether there bee anie nation of the worlde more vnthankfull for Gods benefites more forgetfull of his promises more disobedient to his commaundements more negligent in their callings more factious in practises more contentious in Religion more inclined to Treason more vncharitable in action more colde in deuotion more rash in enterprises more restlesse in vanities more greedie in getting more carelesse in spending more slowe to vertue and more forward to vice And finally more desperate to all kinde of mischiefe then commonly the people of this kingdome are Wherefore if the mercies of God did not daylie salue the deadly wounds and diseases of our soule wee should long before this time haue come to a feareful and horrible end But that the Lord doth yet spare you impute it not to your owne desert but to his great mercy That ye perish consume not in his wrath it is of his mercie That ye liue vnplagued of your enemies is of his mercie That ye loose not his Gospell and true Religion is of his mercie That we see our Elizabeth reigne in holinesse health and prosperitie is long of his mercie And yet for all this do we reiect his goodnesse discredite his promises dishonor his seruices disallowe his tokens continue in sinnes deuide the Church with Schismes and slaunder the trueth of the Gospell by our vngodlines yet for all this do ye crye Peace Peace and think that all shall go aswell with you at the last as it did at the first And consider not the mercifull patience and long suffring of the Lord how he calleth you to repentance For ye shall al dye with euerlasting destruction vnlesse ye speedily shewe foorth the fruites of repentance And the patient forbearing of temporall punishment of your bodies in this life doth breede the greater weight of perpetuall shame and damnation both of bodie and soule in the life to come Farre more easie should it bee for vs if our sinnes had not deserued greater punishement that it would please the Lord fatherlie to correct vs while wee are heere either with publicke warres plagues and famines or else with priuate sicknesse penurie imprisonment and with losse of goods and possessions if he would feede vs with the bread of teares and with the water of affliction if he would exercise vs with all kinde of miserie and so purge and trie vs as it were by fire yea