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A14778	Christ in the clouds, or Gods comming to iudgement A short treatise, very necessary in these euill and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord, may be their day of ioy.; Christ in the clouds.	Warner, John, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 25078; ESTC S106604	10,185	26

fulfilled and the end of the world drawing neere The Prophesies are come to passe both in respect of the men and the mindes for now if euer is the perfection or rather imperfection of all the sinnes the Apostle names to bée the fore runners of the end Why doubt wée then that the end is not at hand or why feare we not rather that a sudden end will preuent our procastinated Repentance As bodies are sicke before death and as infirmity and sickenesse are the true fore-runners of a separation betwéene the Body and the Soule Euen so fareth it with the world it now langnisheth and is corrupt it now lies sicke and therefore it must needes come to confusion and to an end For deadly sicknesse is a fore-runner of death all things now suffer their defect and let no man wonder at it for man now is borne in such defect in respect of the birth of man in former times but what is wanting in the present condition of mans body is supplied in the faculties of his minde and what is defectiue in the strength of his members is compleat in the ripenesse of his vnderstanding which is for the most part implyed not in liberall but in diuellish arts not in the study of learning but of pleasure Onely wit and maturity is resident in man the onely Idea and representment of the Image of God in man What can we otherwise but thinke that the time is at hand wherein mortality shall put on immortality wherin the burthen of the flesh being laid aside the glorious body of the Church shall bée coupled to her glorious head the communication of Saints shal be consummate and Christ shall inioy his Spouse in continuall loue and vnion In the meane time with Paul Vnhappy men that we are Rom. 4. ●4 who shall deliuer vs from this body of death that wee may passe secure to the body of life Then let euery good Christian in these wicked times wherein destruction hangs ouer our heads with good Hezekiah pray Lord I am oppressed doe thou vndertake for me and since the day of destruction is so néere vs wee intreat thée since it is expedient for vs that thou wouldest teach vs so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to wisedome Psal 39. And since thou hast pronounced that seruant happy whō his Master when the came found vigilant and watchfull Grant Lord we beseech thée Luk. 12.37 that since it is manifest that long it cannot bée before thou come that wée may bée fitted and prepared for thy comming and bée found with oyle in our Lampes and so in happinesse enter thy Bride-chamber with ioy and let vs good Lord thinke the Day most neere lest while the day of death or iudgement bée thought to be farre off it preuent the improuident and while long life is expected it quickly forsake the wicked and guilty persons Our mindes are very desirous if we could to know the day of death and dissolution But if wee could attaine to the knowledge thereof what would it profit vs suppose the consummation of this world to be after ten twenty or forty or a hundred yeeres what is this materiall is not the terme of life the consummation of each man Why then are thou so troubled about the last day of iudgement since ●s thy end leaues thée Iudgement shall ●ind thée and how suddenly death shal find ●hee thou art altogether ignorant For as ●n other things not regarding things per●aining to our soules wee altogether are ●usied in things common saying This man is an Adulterer this man a Theefe ●his man a false-hearted fellow that man proud but no man hath a care or feeling of his owne sins far worse So doth euery man neglecting his own ●nd he would faine learne when the generall day of dissolution shall be which Day whether it be néere or farre off it doth no●hing concerne vs so each man regard his ●euerall end For since thou art borne 't is most certaine thou must dye and it is cer●ain after death commeth that Iudgment may be far off yet thy last day is at hand Therefore prepare thee for this day for if ●his day find thée vnprouided the day of ●udgment shall find thée so likewise when ●hou shalt rue for it Psalm 50. Consider this all yee ●hat forget God lest he teare you in pée●es and there bee none to helpe For our God shall goe and shal not kéepe silence A fire shall come before him and it shall be ●ery tempestuous round about him for God himselfe is Iudge And the Day of Iudgement will quickly be at hand preuent the speede thereof It will spéedil● come preuent it I say bée thou spéedil● conuerted And as the Prophet Daui● aduiseth vs let vs runne before the fac● of the Iudge with confession of our fault● and true contrition for the same And th● reason why thou knowest not his comming is that thou mayest alwayes be prepared for it for it is in thine owne powe● how thou mayest expect his comming h●● therefore defers his comming that whe●● he comes he may not daunt thee Behold hée is not yet come he is in Heauen thou art on earth he deferres his comming do● not thou deferre this time of repentance lest it for euer though too late repent th● of his comming For in that day it wil● be too late to repent therefore pray no● that his Kingdome come which thou fearest comming but rather correct thy selfe that thou pray not against thy selfe Today hee cals vpon thee that hée may not in that day condemne thee He that shall then be thy Iudge is now thine aduocate and hée now cals vpon thee that tho● wouldest leade a godly life Let vs therefore set the day of Iudgement before ou● eyes which way soeuer wée goe let v● carry the memory of it with vs and i● will bring this profit with it that we shall not onely meditate on the horrour and de●truction of that day but also wish for the ●ccomplishing of the same which makes ●he wicked to tremble when they heare it approacheth Thus Chrysostome saith Let vs from ●mong our selues repeat these things and with others there shall be a resurrection 〈◊〉 day of Iudgement and a time of examination for all our workes whether good or bad and this will cause that the minds ●oth of good and bad be not conuersant in ●he vanities and pleasures of this world and bee not tempted to any wickednesse ●ut rather to vndergoe any thing to be imposed vpon them here than to incurre the ●ore-séene punishment of euerlasting fire ●ereafter This made Dauid cry out Establish my flesh in thy feare for I haue been afraid to ●eare thy iudgements To conclude this ●oint since wée all must appeare before ●he Iudgement-seat of Christ that euery ●ne may receiue the thing done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad and knowing the terror and Iustice of the Iudge

CHRIST In the Clouds OR GODS comming to Iudgement A short Treatise very necessary in these euill and dangerous times for all those which desire that the day of the Lord may be their day of ioy MAR. 13. Verses 35.36 Watch for yee know not when the Master of the house will come whether at Euening or at mid-night or at the Cock-crowing or at the dawning lest he come suddenly and finde you sleeping LONDON Printed for F. Coles at the vpper end of the Old-Baily neere Newgate 1635. Christ in the Clouds or Gods comming to Iudgement EPicurisme and Atheisme are two sins most hainous and deadly the Atheist beléeues there is no God him Dauid confutes Doubtles there is a God which iudgeth the earth The Epicure beléeues there is no Iudgement after Death him Salomon doth séeme to instruct Remember that for all these things thou must come to Iudgment There is no Christian I think Mat. 24.3 but beléeues that there shall be a day of Iudgment But when this day shal come none knows for of that day and houre no man knoweth neither the Angels of heauen but my father only But although no mans reach is able to determine when that day and houre shall be yet it may plainly be demonstrated and shown both from the Prophets and Apostles that this iudgement day is néere at hand will most suddenly come vpon vs. It is the mercy of the holy Ghost to man in holy Writ to insert these caueats and to put man in mind of the Iudgement day and thrée speciall causes 1 That we may be terrified from sin 2 That we might be admonished to the true and sincere worship of God 3 That wee might be strengthened in our faith lest that great and terrible Day should come vpon vs vnawares and so find vs vnprouided Since the foundation of the world wée know the time when the dissolution of the world shal be we are altogether ignorant yet we may iustly Prophesie and presage thus much since sinne and impiety is now come to that height that it can by no succéeding ages be aggrauated that vertue and godlinesse are so despised and vilified among impious men that they can neuer hereafter be lesse estéemed Who cannot then perceiue or is so dull sighted that is not able to apprehend and fore-sée the dissolution to bée at hand Now is that Prophesie of Hosea verified There is no truth nor mercy Hosea 4. nor knowledge of God in the Land which appeareth by the cursing lying murthers thefts and adulteries which now aboundeth Mich. 7. So that now as the Prophet Micah hath it The godly man is perisht from the earth there is no iust man among the sons of men Thus Hosea Micah nay all the Prophets do agrée in one whereupon saith Saint Ambrose When righteous men perish from off the face of the earth the earth must needs perish also because the godly are the pith marrow of earth For as a trée without pith moisture soone drieth vp so the present world must néeds decay when the righteous that should vphold it are not to be found in it for this cause as the Prophet Esay hath it In the City is left desolation and destruction is in the gates thereof because of their manifold iniquities Christ Iesus himselfe said As in the dayes before the Flood Mat. 24. they were eating and drinking marrying and giuing in marriage vntill the day of the flood came and tooke them away So also shall the comming of the Sonne of man be by reason of prophanesse and too much security Suppose that this Prophecy shall be fulfilled vpon our present times and that God will say to vs as he did to Noah I will destroy you with the world O vnhappy and miserable shall that man bee then that hath not God for his guide But to the end wee may the better discerne that we are they vpon whom the ends of the world must come there is no better a signe among those which Christ himselfe gaue before than this Namely That the Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the World for a witnesse to all nations and then shall the end come Which is as much as to say according to S. Chrysostome To accuse and reproue those that would not beleeue the Gospell The same it is of Hillarie The Apostles being dispersed throughout all the world and the Gospell preached then shall the fall of Ierusalem and the end be Neuerthelesse there are both learned vnlearned of this opinion that since the world so long after these prophesies hath continued as before that the end is not néere and that the world should continue still immutable but let them perseuere in their opinions For since S. Ambrose Cyprian Chrysostome and Saint Gregory were of opinion that since the Gospell in their time was preached to all Nations long after their time the world could not endure surely then it is most probable that this is the age in which the end must come Now that we may haue some proofe that the world cannot endure long because the Gospell is said to bée preached to all Nations heare Saint Ierome who was of opinion that there was in his time no Nation that was ignorant of the Gospell of Christ for he saith Although they haue no Preacher yet they cannot but heare the opinion of the Faith of their neighbour Nations This Prosper confirmes No part of the world is without the Gospel of Christ some of all sorts and of all Nations haue knowledge of Christ I could induce a Cloud of opinions but let Ambrose serue for them all The Gospell is preached that the world may be destroied To conclude this point since probably by this great motiue we are induced to beléeue that the end is at hand and that the day and houre thereof is vncertaine it should stirre vs vp to a more holy course of life lest that our desolation and confusion ouertake vs vnawares But to the end that wée may the better vnderstand and beléeue what hath béene before shewed the word of God is a most firme argument to informe vs of the truth of Christs sudden comming and that this present Age is the last Age of the world for the Spirit expresly saith 1 Timoth 4. That in the latter end some shall depart from the Faith giuing heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Deuills speaking lyes in Hypocrisie and hauing their consciencce feared with an hot iron c. And againe know this also That in the last dayes perillous times shall come for men will bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents vnthankefull vnholy without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent despisers of those that are good high-minded louers of pleasure more than of God hauing the forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Thus farre the Apostle which words S. Cyprian handling saith All things that were foretold are