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A10994	Sermons preached before his Maiestie 1. The bridegromes banquet. 2. The triumph of constancie. 3. The banishment of dogges. By Francis Rollenson, Batcheler of Diuinitie.	Rollenson, Francis, ca. 1565-1630.	1611 (1611)	STC 21264; ESTC S112081	60,158	83

set with the Chrisolite his bellie like white yuorie couered with Saphires his legges like marble pillars set on sockets of gold and his countenance like Libanon excellent as the Cedars Oh who then would not for a little time in this world hold fast and be constant hauing such a Patterne and such a Patron Ecce venio Behold I come These words haue a rellish both of life and death they be as sweet as hony and as bitter as worme-wood they be restoratiue to the Elect but poison to the reprobates therefore our Sauiour speakes them to comfort the one and terrifie the other To the wicked nothing is more yrkesome then the day of death and the day of Doome O mors quam amara c O death how bitter is thy memorie saith the Wise-man to him that putteth his trust in his possessions And the Euangelist tels vs that at the last day m Apoc. 6.15 the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chiefe captaines and the mightie men shall hide themselues in dennes and among the rockes of the Mountaines and shall say to the Mountaines and fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lambe but on the contrary part Death to the righteous is euer welcome For blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them and for the day of Doome it is to them Mell in ore melos in aure Iubilaeus in corde the name of it is as honie the mention of it melodie and the very thought of it a yeere of Iubilie wherefore the Saints departed cry Quousque Domine How long Lord Veni domine Iesu veni citò saith Iohn Come Lord Iesus come quickely to whom our Sauiour makes this comfortable Reply Ecce venio behold I come This Venio I come may well be compared to n 1. Sam. 16. Dauids Harpe and o Iosuah 6. Ioshuas Trumpet the sweet warble of Dauids harpe refreshed king Saul in his agonie and did driue away the euill spirit the sound of Ioshuas Trumpet made the walles of Iericho tremble and leueld them with the ground the like operation proceedes either from the hearing or reading of these two words Ecce Venio behold I come Let one of the Elect heare them imagine his shoulders be ouer loaden with the Crosse his head prick't with thornes and his back embrodered with stripes as indeed in this world the righteous euer suffer affliction and persecution which like euill spirits haunt and torment them yet I say let them but heare this ecce venio and their countenances will be cheared and their hearts comforted so pleasant is the harmonie of this heauenly Harp But let a Reprobate either heare or read them suppose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is in the Prouerbe hee swimme vp to the very eares in riuers of gold be crowned with Rose-buddes and sleepe vpon a bed of yuorie as indeed the wicked in this life are euer most happy free from Crosses free from tribulations yet I say let them in the very surfet of their pleasures but heare this ecce venio and like p 1. Sam. 1.37 Nabal their hearts will die within them and like q Dan. 5.6 Balthasar at the sight of the hand-writing on the wall the ioynts of their loynes will be loosed and their knees smite one against another so fearefull is the sound of this heauenly Trumpet Ecce venio eitô Behold I come quickly The comming of Christ is both certaine suddaine and short first it is most certaine so we gather out of the word Venio I come for our Sauiour herein speakes of a future iudgement as if it were present Secondly it shall be suddaine for behold I come saith Christ like a theife in the night Thirdly it shall be short Behold I come shortly though his comming be certaine yet the time when is vncertaine for it shall be suddaine and short I cannot then but condemne the boldnesse of them that dare assigne the very yeare month and day of Christs comming to Iudgement considering that their assertion is flat opposite and contrary to the Scripture which saith r Marc. 13.33 that the houre and day of Christs comming is not knowen to the Angels nor to the Sonne of Man but to the Father onely and yet Cusanus like s Gen. 11.4 Nimrod to get him a name hath built a Babel of meer coniectures as first his opinion is that the world shall end between the yeere 1700. and 1734. because as Christ rose againe in the foure thirtith yeare of his age so the Church of God shall rise at the latter day in the foure and thirtith Iubile which make one thousand seuen hundreth years Secondly as after the first Adam in the foure and thirtith Iubile there came a consumption of sinne by Water for the Flood was one thousand sixe hundred fiftie sixe years after the Creation of the world so in the foure thirtith Iubile after the second Adam there shall be a finall consumption of sin by fire Other coniectures he hath but being but coniectures I let them passe saying with Augustine De saluatoris reditu qui expectatur in fine tempora dinumerare non audeo Aug. in Epist 28. nec aliquem Prophetarum hac de re numerum annorum existimo praesciuisse c. Of our Sauiours returne which is expected in the end I dare not number the times neither doe I thinke that any of the Prophets knew the number of the yeares but rather that to stand which the Lord saith t Act. 1.7 It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father hath kept in his owne power The Lord to great purpose would haue that day kept secret that our hearts should be in continuall expectation of it Aug. in psal 36. con 1. Ser. 6. 17. Quid ad te saith Augustine quando venies sic vine quasi hodiè venturus sit non timebis cum venerit What is it to thee when hee commeth so liue as though hee should come to day and thou shalt not be afraid when hee commeth Remember thine end and thou shalt neuer doe amisse the day of Death and the day of Doome are two Pole-starres vpon which we that be Pilgrims and trauailers vpon earth must euer fixe our eyes Ioseph of Aramathia made his Sepulcher in his Garden and the Aegyptians in their banquetting houses had euer the picture of Death so ought wee in the midst of our worldly pleasures and delights continually to cast vp our accounts daily to number our dayes What know wee when the Bridegrome will come It behoueth vs therefore like wise Virgins euer to haue our Lampes full of Oyle and to be in readinesse to giue attendance For behold Christ will come certainely suddainly and shortly Hold that thou hast that no man take

Body can be but in a place Seeing then that the Resurrection shall be both of Body and Soule as well for the Reprobate as the Elect and that the one sort of them must enter into a b Matth. 25.34 Kingdome prepared for them from the foundations of the world and the other c Matth. 25.41 into eternall fire which is prepared for the Deuill and his angels must not both the Sheepe and the Goates be in two distinct seuerall and reall places it cannot be gaine-said but what places be these Some thinke that the Fruition and the Want of Gods presence and Glorie is that Kingdom and this Fire if it were so why should there be any generall Iudgement for in this Life the Elect enjoy Gods gracious aspect which is Heauen vpon Earth and the Reprobates are depriued of it which is a kinde of Hell This I confesse is a heauen and a hell for the Soule but take away that Place which is called Coelum Coelorum the heauuen of heauens and that Dungeon which is named Tenebrae exteriores vtter Darknesse and how shall the bodies of the Righteous d Dan. 12.3 shine as the brightnesse of the Firmament and the bodies of the wicked rise againe to perpetuall shame and contempt My conclusion then is this As God hath ordained some to be Vessels of honour some of dishonour so hath hee prepared two seuerall places for them heauen and hell the one aboue the other beneath betwixt which there is a e Luke 16.26 great gulfe so that they which would goe from heauen to hell cannot neyther can they come from hell to heauen That there shall be a Corporall Ascension and Descension into two distinct places Eliah and Corah are two figures f 2 Reg. 2.11 Eliah went vp by a whirle-wind into heauen carried in a fiery Chariot drawne by horses of fire and g Num. 16.33 Corah and his companie went aliue into hell neyther of these dyed but were changed h 1 Cor. 15.52 as the liuing shall be at the last day in a moment and in the twinckling of an eye and their bodies being corruptible did put on Incorruption sharing betwixt them Life and Death eternall both in body and Soule and all this was done to teach vs what shal become of our soules and bodyes at the generall resurrection and to informe vs that as there is a Place aboue Heauen for the Elect so there is a Place beneath hell for the Reprobates Here shall Dogges endure paines most bitter and eternall namely a fire vnquenchable and a worme that shall neuer cease gnawing of this Fire the Body shall be the Fewell and to this Worme the Soule shall be food Seeing then that there shall be a Separation a within and a without and that there is a heauen and a hell Ioy eternall and Torment euerlasting O let vs continually meditate vpon this Lake burning with fire and brimstone the thought whereof if all sparkes of grace be not quencht in our hearts will be like a Bridle to curbe vs and keepe vs from sinning Our Sauiour to disswade vs from back-sliding bids vs Remember Lots wife the Wise-man saith Remember thine end and thou shalt neuer doe amisse and so say I Remember Hell this Memento is like a Iewell made of Iacinthes to which the Lapidaries attribute three excellent effects namely to preserue a man from lightning from the Pestilence and to procure sleepe such like is the Remembrance of hell in that it is an Antidote against the poyson of sinne it saues the soule from that furnace of fire where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth and preserues it from those vnspeakeable plagues and torments which God hath prepared for the Diuell and his Angels lastly because hee that euer thinkes of Hell will be afraid to commit sinne this Memento doth disburden the Conscience of all internall horrour and Anguish which like Saules euill Spirit doe euer haunt the guiltie minde and consequently procureth spirituall peace and Rest to the Soule This Peace hee giue vs who is the Prince of Peace Christ Iesus the righteous to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour prayse power glory and dominion both now and euer Amen FINIS ERRATA For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For Arians read Acrians For M●ced●nius read Macedenious For Seli●●● read Silen●e