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A06525	A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our dayes made by the right reuerend father and faithfull seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther ; concerning the comming of our Sauior Christ to Iudgement and the signes that go before the Last Day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospell appointed to be red in the church on the second Sonday in Aduent ; and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certaine notes in the margent.	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1570 (1570)	STC 16997.5; ESTC S2800	32,573	96

how the word of God is dayly more more contemned Many kind of errours pestiferous sectes horrible wickednesses increase dayly whereby the world is worse and worse whiles we hope but in vayne for amendement Wherfore then in such miseries and calamities should we be greatly desirous of our lyfe And if I for myne owne part had no great cause to desire the end of all things yet the perill and daunger of my brethren scattered here and there in the world ought to moue me for whose sake we haue good cause hartly to pray for it whose state is such as we both heare see that they are constrained to suffer all maner of ignominy reproch slaunderous wordes both priuely and openly violent iniury and finally most greuous persecution what soeuer with diuers kinds of tormentes cruelly handled and put to death For how many euē in our dayes haue we sene partly burnt openly or by some such meanes made away partly put to death priuely and by traiterous meanes dispatched There are many besides the infinite number of holy mē which haue bene slayne before our tyme since the Ascention of our Sauiour Christ or rather since the beginnyng of the world Whose bloud beyng yet vnreuenged cryeth for the commyng of our Sauiour to iudgement to the end they beyng restored to their bodyes agayne may haue full fruition of the ioyes lōg looked for and may be reuēged of the world as the reuelation of Iohn declareth Where God comforteth them after this sort saying that they must rest for a litle season vntil the number of their fel●…w seruaūtes and brethren which should be killed in like maner were fulfilled which I hope is now come to passe Therfore both the Christians that are lyuyng and those that are departed after a sorte do desire vs to helpe them with our prayers desiring God to hasten their redemption For what thing can be more miserable vnto Christiās then that they should be cōstrained alwayes to hold their tounges the world and the deuill continually bragging and raging ouer thē dayly putting to death and cruelly murderyng more more of the faithfull professours of Iesus Christ his vnfaillible word and seducyng men more and more encreasing these haynous offēces which before were vntollerable We heare see at this present the Turke and the Pope which is Antichrist rage with most cruell tyranny agaynst y name of Christ dayly sheddyng the bloud of his Saintes with many sectes bysides contrary to his Gospell And should we holdyng our handes in our bosome looke vpon the deuill practisyng without measure his crafty deuises agaynst the Christians and not make our earnest prayer vnto God for them without ceasyng There is no sparke of Christianity in a mans body remainyng that would not pray vnto God withall his harte to be deliuered out of these so great miseries and calamities Therfore if we haue a mynde to be Christians we must endeuer our selues to pray diligently and earnestly as our Sauiour hath taught vs and as our necessity requireth if it be any necessity whē we see good Christiās with great persecution slayne true doctrine oppressed the kingdome of the deuill withall maner of vice wickednes aduaunced Saintes by the meanes of wicked men not onely despised and troade vnder foote but consumed to dust and ashes finally the Gospell of Christ our Lord and his name spitefully blasphemed Therfore let vs call vpon God all that we may desiryng him for the glory of his name to take vppon him the defence of hys Christian children and of his owne doctrine and bryng them by hys commyng at the last day to iudge the quicke and the dead to that glorious rest which he hath promised and prepared for them frō the beginning of the world through the death and Passion of the immaculate lambe our Sauiour Christ. But if any man through the infirmitie of hys fleshe be afrayde of that day let hym print deepely in his mind the wordes of Christ our Sauiour and comfort him selfe with this that hee byddeth vs lift vp our heades and be of good cheare callyng that tyme our redemptiō that is not death but euerlastyng life not wrath but mercy and grace not hell but the kingdome of God not terror or daunger but comfort and ioye And therfore Paule not without a cause calleth it the blessed hope and appearyng of the glory of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ. Therfore we may be of good cheare nede not feare the losse of our lyfe nor his commyng to Iudgemēt which hath geuen vs his Gospell and his grace therewith not to deny him but to loue him and confesse him to shunne no daūger in his cause which are and will be layd before vs of the world and of the deuill vntill the comming of our Sauiour whose comming shall not be terrible but ioyfull yet not to the world but to vs miserable sinners which for a tyme must continue here as it were in a den of theues where the deuill day and night seeketh to draw vs takyng away from vs not onely our life and our goods but vexyng our hartes and our consciences with diuers stormes of temptations to the ende we should feare the day of our redēption and beyng destitute of all cōfort should fal into vtter desperation Unto vs thus troubled the commyng of our Sauiour shal be ioyfull but vnto the world which will not beleue what daunger hangeth ouer his head before he haue experience thereof it shall bryng terrour feare plagues death destruction hell fire Therfore when that day shall come vpon the sodaine and vtterly destroy all thinges there is no cause why thou that art a faithfull Christian shouldest be afrayd therof least it destroy thee in lyke sorte For either beyng receiued thou shalt bee taken out of the graue and out of dust into heauē or els in a moment thou shalt be chaunged into a glorious estate for euer placed where no sinne no feare no sorrow no daunger but true rightuousnes ioy peace lyfe tranquilitie and euerlastyng blessednes shall reigne These thynges we looke for and preach for the little flockes sake which shall receaue them at that day which we desire withall our hartes and hope it to be now hard at hand bycause so many signes and tokens thereof are already past forespoken by Christ our true Sauiour And this is that consolation comfort which no mā can geue but onely the holy ghost by the word of Christ our Lord. Let vs suffer therefore the Sunne the Moone and all creatures to lowre and to threaten terrible thinges to come For although they bee terrible vnto the world they are ioyfull vnto vs which in them see that cōfortable deliueraūce which our Sauiour by y wordes of this Gospell hath declared vnto vs and which he expoundeth vnto vs by this godly parable or similitude folowyng See sayth he the figge trees and all other trees when

doubt he would celebrate with much solēnitie geuyng God thankes that he had lyued to see that ioyfull houre Euen so ought we to do when we see these signes mentioned by our Sauiour Christ in this Gospell If fire water thunder and lightenyng fall from heauen so thicke and with such abundaunce as though all thinges in a momēt should vtterly be destroyed We must thus thinke with our selues that it is the prouision and ordinaunce of God our Kyng Captaine Wherby he destroyng and ouerthrowyng the prison house will deliuer vs which are kept bound in the kyngdome of the deuill vnder sinne afflicted of the world with manifold miseries calamities Wherfore then should we be afrayde when we see these thynges Why should we not rather ioyfully suffer al maner of tormentes wherwith the world and the deuill molesteth vs that our redemer may come the sooner deliuer vs For without his comfort and consolation we were of al men as I said most miserable and might well wish that we had neuer ben borne and that we had no God at all Therfore let vs cōfort our selues with these ioyfull cogitations knowyng for a certaintye that our deliuerer will come and that these signes are as I may terme them his Haroulds of armes wherby he giueth to vs to vnderstand that he him selfe is not farre behynd In the meane season although in the world we be tossed vexed and afflicted with many stormes thorow the intollerable wickednes of vngodly mē although they geue vs vineger mixed with gall to drinke bysides other dayly misfortunes as sickenes pestilence dearth warre which are greuous to the body or to the outward man yet we must suffer and abyde all these thynges with patience We must be contēt to drinke this bitter drinke for a time that y swete drinke which hereafter shal be geuē vs may be the more pleasant to our tast and that we may therby be moued the more earnestly to pray for the cōmyng of our true sauiour otherwise we should behaue our selues like sauage wild mē which bereaued of their wyt haue no perseuerance of the daunger that hāgeth ouer their heades euen like the secure and carelesse world which knoweth not how to repent yea we should be drowned in the desire and loue of worldly honor wealth and pleasure at the length cast of all care of Gods word and vtterly perish with the wicked world Therfore this bitter drinke is commodious vnto vs For it breedeth in vs a saciety and lothsomnes of this life and comfortably causeth vs to hope for a life much more excellent now whē our true Sauiour shall come in the cloudes with power great glory Who shall deliuer vs from all daunger receiue vs to him selfe into the life euerlastyng then the which nothyng cā be more ioyfull But vnto the wicked worldlyngs which set their whole delight vpon this lyfe caryng nothyng for God hys commyng shall not be very acceptable For in a moment he shall bring them to nought so that they shall be constrained to lye in euerlastyng paynes and tormentes which arrogantly contemne and despise both hys signes and hys word And whereas this is no small grief to good Christians to consider in their myndes such a great destruction of the world whereby they trouble them selues for their sakes which shall perish our Sauiour by the wordes contained in the latter part of this Gospell withdraweth their myndes from such cogitations mouing them to cōsider rather how necessary their owne ▪ redemption is then the great destruction of the wicked which for their desertes God of his iustice hath prouided for them For they can neuer make an ende of persecutyng the Gospell which most contumeliously and blasphemously they spit at cōtemne and scoffe and rashly iniuriously and by force greue oppresse the preachers therof from which wicked purpose they can not bee withdrawne by any admonitions intreatynges rebukes or threatenynges A man were as good speake vnto a stocke or a stone as vnto thē for they will not beleue before they try by experience how wonderfully they were deceaued and what punishment God hath prouided for such yron harted infidels They are so secure and careles that what so euer happeneth terrible to the eyes or horrible to the eares that they turne from them selues vpō vs saying that we are the cause of all miserie and calamitie of all daūger of all mischief Finally when we haue done all that we cā do by preachyng praying counsaylyng yea and aduēturyng our owne liues to profite y world we are rewarded with vtter contēpt hatred enuy and most crafty dealyng which are able to make a mās hart to cleaue a sunder for sorow and grief of minde Therfore God cannot chuse if he will beare any sway in earth but once at the length let them see by experience that his word and threatninges are true which they scorne and iest at and that he is able to deliuer out of trouble hys Christian children most miserably afflicted And bycause the childrē of the world do despise his Passion death and resurrection and all thinges that he did or speake with a secure and carelesse mynd therfore once at the length they shall be terrified and feared when we shall lyue pleasantly and ioyfully in euerlastyng lyfe Therefore if thou haue any sparke of pitie in thy brest take pitie rather of the afflicted Christians which must suffer so many miseries and calamities in the world yea rather lament the state of the Gospell and the most holy name of Christ our God in the which thou wast baptized and called to be partaker of lyfe euerlastyng which the wicked worldlyngs do so vyly and blasphemously spit at despise treade vnder their feete reuile with most spiteful words What kynd of pitie call you this to take pitie of these cruell murderers hauyng an hart so stony that it cannot repent which will not amend their life and make an end of their mischieuous actes before they bee vtterly destroyed with their forefather Pharao and such other as haue bene rebellious against y maiesty of almighty god I had rather tenne worldes should perish ten tymes then one true Christian should continue in sorow and grief of minde for their sakes which so outrageously contemne and despise Christ our Sauiour and all Christian Religion Therefore it is our parte to pray vnto God with a faithfull hart feruent desire that his kyngdome may come In like maner we had nede to wishe and pray that the world may be ouerthrowen and vtterly destroyed which most arrogantly and blasphemously doth set it selfe agaynst Christ and hys bloud and can neuer make an end of his raging fearcenes and cruel persecutyng of poore Christians For so that forme of prayer which Christ our Sauiour hath prescribed vnto vs teacheth vs courageously and with confidēce to pray that this day may come and that we cry without ceasing vnto god that once at