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A19279	The true and perfect copie of a godly sermon preached in the minister at Lincolne, by the reuerend father in God, Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the .28. of August. Anno. 1575.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1575 (1575)	STC 5691; ESTC S111168	25,439	76

¶ The true and perfect copie of a godly Sermon preached in the Minster at Lincolne by the reuerend Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the. 28. of August ANNO. 1575. ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Middleton for Rafe Newberie dwelling in Fleetestrete alitle aboue the Condite To the Reader WHē I perceiued the earnest good will of some vvich tooke paines very busilie to get this sermon so exquisitely penned as it vvas pithilie spokē had therwithal had the view of the halfe as it vvere the maimed copie of the same more zealously then skilfully collected I into vvhose handes by the meanes of a friende this true and perfecte copie came thought my selfe to be blame vvorthie if I should denie to further the honest desire of welmeaning christians The excellencie of the thing made manie men to request it and the desire of many made me to print it hoping that among manie some vvil take profite by it ▪ fare vvell ¶ A Sermon no lesse godly then necessarie preached in the Minster at Lincolne by the reuerende Father Thomas Cooper Byshoppe of Lincolne on the xxviii day of August 1575. Treating on the xvi Chapter of Matthewe verse 26. 27. as followeth QVid prodest homini si totum Mundum lucratus fuerit animae suae iacturam c. The last day dearely beloued you hearde how swéetly gently and louingly our sauiour Christ spake vnto vs with most tender and ●inde heart called vs to follow him and assured vs to haue care of our saluation If you love me sayde he keepe my commandements assuring vs withall of his singular graces and benefites of his holy spirit that he woulde not onely teache vs and be our guide but that he and his Father woulde come and dwell in vs and so make our fraile bodyes as it were the Temple of the blessed Trynitie And not only that he would make his dwelling place in vs but also abyde with vs for euer that we might by him enioye eternal life These swéete allurements should not onely moue the hart of Christians to pietie and godlinesse but also cause vs to haue an earnest carefull consideration of our soules health and not to neglect this time of grace whereinthe long suffring of God doth mercifully call vs to repentance But lamentable it is and it woulde make any true Christian heart bléede to consider that the most part of vs are not onely so carelesse and negligent but so dul of hearing and so heard harted as we take no héed of gentle speche we be not mooued with swéete allurements yea we be so a slepe in securitie as no sounde or noyse of Gods mercie will wake vs out of our deadly flomber Wherefore séeing mercie and mildenesse will not preuaile with our carelesse mindes séeing swéete and gentle speeche wil not waken our sléepie and sluggish hearts we must be contented this daye to heare him make terrible proclamation of his iustice and to put vs in minde of that dreadfull danger that we shal fal into vnlesse we spéedely haue regard vnto our souls VVhat doth it auaile a man saith he if he win the vvhole vvorlde and loose his owne soule for it shal come to passe that the sonne of man c. The somme of Christes spéeche is this The sonne of man assuredlie shall come vvith mightye povver to iudge the vvorlde and giue to euerie man according to his deserts therfore it behoueth you to haue care of your soules This short argument comprehendeth great and ample matter of some part whereof I meane at this time by Gods sufferance to speak and first of the Antecedent and then of the conclusion First therefore I will let you vnderstande that the daye of iudgement shall be and that spéedely Secondly how and after what sort it shal be And then wil I adde the conclusion how we shoulde haue care of our soules and prepare our selues for the comming of that day That there shal be a iudgement If there were no more places in the whole scripture this one might be sufficient especially if we consider who it is that speaketh it that is Christ our Sauiour the Sonne of God and trueth it selfe It shal come to passe saith he that the sonne of man shal come in the glorie of the Father with his Angels and then shal he giue to euerie man according to his doings But beside this testimonie the holy Ghost in sundry places of the Scripture beareth witnesse to the same Novv saith S. Paul God denounceth to al men in al places that they should repent because he hath set a day vvherein he vvil by that mā vvhome he hath appointed iudge the vvorlde in righteousnesse And againe vve al shall appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ that euerie man may yelde to God an accompt for him selfe And to the Corinthians vve must al appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ that euerie man maye receiue the vvorkes of his bodie according to that he hath done be it good or badde But what should I stand in rekoning vp of manie testimonies seing the holy Scriptures are ful of them And therefore the Apostles of Christ after thē the holy Fathers of the first Church haue layd it downe as a necessarie article of Christian faith the denying or doubting wherof must nedes subuert al Christian religion and make vs the most miserable of al men Wherefore Christians that haue féeble and wauering faith in these miserable and daungerous dayes must séeke by all godly meanes to strengthen their consciences herein Wherevnto this reason following must be of great waight and importance with al them that haue any sense of God. The Prophetes of God many hundred yeres before Christ came in flesh denounced vnto the worlde that the true Sauiour Christe Jesus should be sent to worke the redemption of mankynde and descriueth his Conception his Natiuitie the place and maner of his birth his state and condition in the world finally his death his resurrection and ascention All which things we sée haue vnfallibly come to passe many yeres since Therefore those things that they haue prophesied of the last day and of his comming to iudgemēt must also proue as true and as certeinly in due time come to passe But happily many be so farre gon in heathenishe infidelitie that they beléeue not the Scriptures yea they will scoffe and scorne at this talke and thinke it is no better thā a bug to feare babes withall Yea and these happyly shall be in no small place and countenance in the world For the world is so great with them that they forget God altogether Of these speaketh S. Peter There shall come sayth he in the latter dayes scorners vvalking after their ovvn lust and saying vvhere is the promise of his comming For since the fathers slept all things continue a like from the beginning of the creatiō Who heareth not such voyces spread cōmōly among the

and is called dictum domus Eliae the saying of the schole of Elias and is attributed to the sonne of the widowe which Elias raysed from death to lyfe The summe of it is that the worlde should remayne sixe thousande yeres that is two thousand before the law two thousand vnder the lawe and two thousand vnder Messiah The first foure thousande we sée by iust computation fulfilled before Christe of the last two one and more then an halfe is passed nowe if we call to our remembrance that Christe him selfe hath promised that for his electe sake because of the excéeding trouble miserie and wickednesse the latter dayes should be shortned we shall easily gather that the world hath not many yeres to continue and howe fewe we knowe not for howe much or how litle he will abridge them we are vncerteine Nowe séeing the proofes be so euident that the last day can not be farre of for séeing the figge trée leaues be spreade Sommer must néedes be at hande the nexte is the more to moue our dull hearts diligently to consider howe and in what maner it shall be The story thereof Christ briefly comprehendeth Mat. 25. VVhen the sonne of man sayth he shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels vvith him then shall he sitte on the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered al nations and he shal separate them one from another as the shephearde deuideth his sheepe from the goates and he shall set the sheepe on the right hande but the goates on the left so forth as there foloweth Christes first comming was with al méekenesse lowlines simplicitie according to the saying of the Prophet Behold thy king commeth to thee meeke and sitteth vpon an Asse He came then to saue sinners and therefore he shewed him selfe altogether in mercy and gentlenesse but his latter comming shall be with great power maiestie and glory for then he commeth as a dreadfull Judge to reward in iustice the vnrepentant sinners that contemned his great mercies offered at his firste comming But let vs examine the maner of his comming somewhat more particularly After those signes and tokens that goe before his comming whereof I haue already spoken there be other also ioyned with the verie time of his latter appearing The sun shall be darkened the moone shall lose her light the starres shall fall from heauen and the povvers of heauen shall be moued the earth shall burne the firmament shall melt away and the last trumpe shall blowe and the voyce of the Archangell shal be heard summoning as it were all people aud sounding in their eares Surgite mortui venite ad iudicium arise you dead and come to iudgement whiche voyce S. Hierome thought he hearde euer ringing in his eares Then shall the sonne of mā appeare in the cloudes with great Maiestie as is sayde and the dead shall rise and they that be lyuing in the twinckling of an eye shall be changed and caryed into the ayre to appeare before the Lorde who commeth to iudge the worlde in ryghteousnesse This maner of Christ his comming beside his owne wordes in sundrie places of the Euangelistes is witnessed by S. Paule 2. Thes 1. VVhen the Lord Iesus Christe shall be reuealed from heauen vvith the Angels of his povver in flaming fire rendring vengeance vnto them that knovve not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ The very place whence he shall be reuealed giueth a great authoritie and maiestie vnto his comming to iudgement from heauen saith S Paule that is from the seate and habitation of the eternall and euerliuing God where is al power wisdome and iustice From thence saith he in another place doe we looke for our sauiour the Lorde Jesu And the Angell to the Disciples at the ascention of Christ VVhy stand you saith he gasing vp into heauen this same Iesus vvhich is taken from you into heauen shal so come euen as you haue sene him goe into heauen And therefore all christians in their beliefe confesse that Christ is ascended vp into heauē from whence say they he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead In the witnesse of the Apostle aboue rehearsed the power and ende of his comming is noted vvith the Angels of his povver saith S. Paule and to this end That he may be reuenged on them that knovve not God nor haue not beleeued his Gospel Which thing muste néedes be most terrible to the wicked as it is in the same place more precisely noted But of all other the Prophet Daniel most gloriously discribeth the maner of his comming I beheld saith he til the thrones vvere set vp and the Auncient of dayes did sit vvhose garment vvas vvhite as snow and the haires of his heade like pure vvool his throne vvas like firie flame and his vvheles as burning fire There issued forth before him a firie streame a thousand thousande ministred vnto him and ten thousand stoode before him the iudgment was set and the bokes were opened c. First the Prophet sayth the Thrones vvere set vp whereby it may appeare there be moe Thrones then one that this Judge shal haue a great number of assistances to be as witnesses of his iustice against the wicked and these shal be the number of his saintes as it is witnessed in sundrie places of the Scriptures Verely verely I saye vnto you saith Christ That vvhen the sonne of man shal sit in the throne of his maiestie you that haue follovved me in regeneration shal sit also vpon twelue seats iudgig the twelue tribes of Israel This iudge is noted by Daniel to be An olde man vvith his haire as white as vvool Therby to signifie the reuerence wisdome and experience y is in him that he cā not let passe any thinge by ignorance errour or follye his garmentes as white as snowe declare vnto vs his securitie vprightnes and integritie in iudgement not respecting any person nor being corrupted with fauour hatred or money The firie stream e y issueth forth before him the flaming throne that he sitteth in signifie the dreadfull force and pearsing strength of his iudgement which no creature is able to resist As fire consumeth all things is consumed of nothing so doth the straight iudgement of God consume all the wicked of the earth For God as the Scriptures saye is a consuming fire And the Prophet Esay saith The Lorde shall comme in fire and his chariot shall be like a vvhirle vvinde that he may recompence his vēgeance in his vvrath and his indignation in a flame of fire For the Lord shal iudge all fleshe with the fire and vvith his svvorde The assistance of an infinite number of saints and Angels set forth vnto vs the wonderfull maiestie and power of the sonne of God in iudgement for if one Angell in one night were hable to destroye 185000 ▪ of the host of Senacherib of