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A09841	A newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens liues, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof this 1600. yeare of Christ, (erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee) which is from the Creation, the 5548. yeare. Conteining sundrie singularities, worthie of observation, concerning courses of times, and revolutions of the heauen, and reformations of kalendars, and prognistications: with a discourse of prophecies and signes, preceeding the latter daye, which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch. With a godlie admonition in the end, vpon the words of the Apostle, to redeeme the time, because the dayes are evill. By M. Robert Pont, an aged pastour in the Kirk of Scotland. The heades are set downe in certaine propositions, in the page following.	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20104; ESTC S114916	62,367	102

A NEWE TREATISE OF THE RIGHT RECKONING OF YEARES AND AGES of the World and mens liues and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof this 1600. yeare of Christ Erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee which is from the Creation the 5548. yeare Conteining sundrie singularities worthie of observation concerning courses of times and revolutions of the Heauen and reformations of Kalendars and Prognostications with a discourse of Prophecies and signes preceeding the latter daye which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch With a godlie admonition in the end vpon the words of the Apostle to redeeme the time because the dayes are evill By M. ROBERT PONT and aged Pastour in the Kirk of Scotland The heades are set downe in certaine Propositions in the Page following LVKE 17. As it was in the dayes of Noe so shall it be in the dayes of the Sonne of man EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY ROBERT WALDE-GRAVE PRINter to the Kings Maiestie Anno 1599. Cum Priuilegio Regio The propositiones and heads to be handled in this Treatise 1. THat the most sure reckoning of the ages of the worlde is by Sabbathes or weekes of yeares and that they who count without respect thereof are in an errour and that by iust account this 1600. yeare of Christ is from the beginning of the world the 5548. yeare 2 That this yeare of Christ 1600. by right reckoning is neither a Sabbaticall yeare nor yet a yeare of Iubilee and that the true Iubilee of Christianes is alreadie accomplished with detection of the abuse of the counterfaited Iubilees holden at Rome 3 That the Iubilee of the Papisticall Romanistes neither doth rightly counterfaite the Iewes neither the Seculare yeares of the auncient Romanes And of diverse manners of reckoning the ages of the Worlde and of mens liues 4 That in our time the signes and revolutiones of the heaven are changed and remooved from the olde accustomed places And therefore the vulgare Prognosticators reckoning by the olde rules are in an errour 5 That the Iulian or Romane Kalendare might receiue an easier reformation and that the late attempted reformation thereof is not well taken vp but giveth occasion of errour in reckoning 6 That there is a merveilous sympathie of periodes of times in reckoning by seuens by Sabbatical yeares and of the manifold mysteries of the number of seauen 7 That there is an appearant dangerous alteration to fall out this yeare within few yeares hereafter and of the Prophecies and signes declaring to vs the world to be neare an end 8 An admonition to all men to prepare themselues and to redeeme the time because the dayes are evill TO THE RIGHT REVEREND● NOBLE LORD ALEXANDER SEYTON L. Vrquhard and Fyvie President in the Senate of Iustice and Provest of Edinburgh c. All health and felicitie in Christ. YOur Lordshippes gentle humanitie toward all honeste and well-hearted men and namely towards me since my first acquaintance hath mooved mee to dedicate to your honour this parte of the fruite of my studies knowing that amongst the rare Mecenases of this Land your name is with the highest ranke vnder his Maiestie to be mentioned The first cause I confesse that mooved mee to publish this Treatise in our English tongue was to disswade the too curious conceites of certaine men desirous to be at Rome this approching 1600. yeare commonly called a year of Iubilee wherof they shuld receiue no profit but rather domage with losse of time expenses For your L. knows wel ynough the maners of Rome as I am perswaded allowes not of that pompose superstition yet if your L. wil take paines not being fashed with more weighty matters to reade this whole discourse I trust you shall finde other heads whereof you shal like verie well that haue troubled the heades of learned men and not bene so exactly found out Wishing your L. to accept of this smal token of my good fauor towards your honor and to accept of me amongst the clientele of your friendship wherfore God-willing ye shall not finde me vnworthie To whose almightie protection I commit your L. This last of October 1599. Your L. ever ready to power in God ROBERT PONT TO THE READERS HAVing in hand a more large work● concerning controllment and examination of times by occasion of this incident 1600. yeare of Christ which is reckoned by the Papistes and others applauding to their superstition to be a yeare of Iubilee I thought good to prevent that errour by this little Treatise discevering thereby the vanitie of divers men of this Ile of others far cuntries who with great los of time and hazard not onely of their substance and liues but also of their soules and consciences minde to visite that Idole the Pope and to be present in Rome onely to see his yeare of Iubilee falsely being counterfaited to the imitation of the Iubilees of the Iewes but indeede derogatory to the true Iubilee and spirituall libertie purchased vnto vs by our Saviour Christ. And for-as-much as this instante yeare is the ende of a great Period of time to witte sixteene hundreth yeares from Christ his nativitie wherein there appeares diverse great mutationes to fall out aswel in the estate of Religion as in civill affaires and common wealthes I haue herewith not onely discovered diverse erroures in reckoning of times and ages of the Worlde and laboured to finde out the right reckoning but also touched the revolution of the heauen and reformation of Kalendars and Prognostications and declared my iudgement concerning the Prophecies and signes of the latter day appearing nowe shortly to approche If any be not satisfied with the brevitie of this Treatise I re●●itte them to my more ample discourse to be set out in Latine if GOD graunt me abilitie and time wherein the proofe of these propositiones with other matters of the like arguments will be conteined at large Read learne-well and try Then judge advisedly OF THE DECAYING ESTATE OF THE worlde this instante 1600. yeare of Christ. FIRST PROPOSITION That the most sure reckoning of the age of the worlde is by Sabbath's of yeares and they that count not considdering the same are in an errour and that by iust account this 1600. yeare from Christ his birth is from the beginning of the worlde the 5548. yeare IN The beginning as the Spirite of God recordeth by MOYSES after that the Lord in sixe dayes had created the Heaven Earth with all the furniture thereof Hee rested vpon the seventh day Therefore hee blessed it and hallowed it This is also repeated in the fourth Commandemente for the perpetuall observation of that daye and because the number of seauen by that reason is a sacred nomber and most meete for al kinde of reckoning It was ordained also in the lawe that amongst the people of God everie seventh yeare should be holden holy wherin the land should rest frō labor so that therin there shuld neither be sowing of cornes nor cutting

those ages now cōpleetly passed by our reckoning before this 1600. yeare of Christ fiftie hundreth yeares which make 55. ages And we are now in the 56. age and at the 48. yeare thereof which may well be called an age of the decaying and fading worlde not onely because it appeareth to approche neere vnto the worlds end but also by reason greater mutatiōs alteratiōs are likely to fal out therein both in the visible heavens the earth other elements then in other ages before whereof I intend to speake more largely afterward But to intreat of particular accidents that fel out in the former ages it pertayneth to a more large discourse FOVRTH PROPOSITION That in our time the signes and revolutions of the heauen are changed and remooved from the olde accustomed places And therefore the vulgar Prognosticator● are in an error And of the way to reforme the same LIke as I haue travelled heretofore by Sabbaticall reckoning to deduce finde out the perfite count of the yeares of the world how long it hath continued vnto this instant 1600. yeare of Christ And there with to discover the erroneous reckoning of the Papisticall Iubilees and their impieties So now might I enter into an other kinde of reckoning which is called Astronomicall gathered by the course and revolutiones of the Heaven the Sunne the Moone and the Starres For as the Sabbaticall reckoning whereof I haue spoken hath the grounde out of the Scriptures and worde of God So this Astronomicall count hath also the original out of the same And as thereckoning of Sabbathes and Sabba●icall yeares beginneth at the seaventh daye of creation when God rested from all his workes so this Astronomical calculation hath the beginning frō the 4. day of creation when as God made those heavenly lights and placed them in the lyft of heaven not only for that cause that they should shine giue light vpon the earth separating the day from the night● but also to be for signes and for seasons of times dayes and yeares that is by their motions and revolutions to distinguish times and seasons and therewith to signifie certaine effects following vpon their courses and motions So that thereby we may learne the difference of times and make distinction of the partes thereof as of yeares monethes dayes and of all seasons and appointed diettes Without the knowledge and reckoning whereof there should be nothing but extreame confusion in all the actions of men For neither could the memory of things by past be kept norrespect had of things to come nor the progresse of time be numbred without the same were defined and measured by the motion of these heauenly bodies and namely of the Sunne and Moone For the Sunne by his most equall and simple motion is as a most perfite rule to vs to appoynt and measure the yeares and seasons thereof The Moone also by her shorte motion to measure and distinguish the Monethes of the years So there is no more perfite way to measure the yeares of the World then by the course of the Sunne the Moone and the Starres which everie one haue their juste periodes of time within the which they compleit their courses revolutiones the which albeit they appeare sometime vnequall to vs that dwell on the earth yet they are most equall constant in themselues But because I think I haue prooven sufficiently already both by Sabbaticall and by Historicall reckoning the just count of the yeares of the World to our dayes I thinke it not necessarie in this short Treatise to set downe the Astronomicall reckoning al-be-it it would ratifie and confirme our former count For it should be both long-some tedious to them that are not well grounded in Astronomie and peradventure over difficill to be taken vp Therefore I refer the same to a more ample worke In the meane time by reason of the great errour I see fall forth among the vulgare Prognosticators for wronge taking vp of their groundes in judging the face of the heaven the weather and other accidents and influences thereof I haue thought good to discover their errour that they may amend the same and others be no further deceived by them But first I would informe them to amend their errour also that deny the heavenly influences to be effectual because the predictions of such as commonly set out the vulgare Prognostications oft-times take not effect I say these men declare them selues very ignorant in naturall Philosophie and are convict by experience and ensample of such things as daily fal out by vertue of the heavenly influences Yea by the Scripture it self Namely in Iob where the Lord himsele maketh mention of the pleasant influence of Pleiades which is the pleasant spring-time of the year when the Sunne commeth to those starres For these influences not onely make the earth to fructifie but also worke a great varietie in the seasons of the year so that they are not like one to another nor to themselues every yeare in many thinges And many evident signes are founde in the motiones configurations and interchangeings of the courses of the heavenly light where by men who are expert in divine science of Astrology may gather and conjecture many things to fall out not onely in the aire but also in the naturall inclination of earthly creatures For for that cause the eternall God appoynted them in the beginning not onely to shine and shew light vnto the world but also to be for signes of things to come as it is testified in Genesis So that by the great providence of God three excellent benefites are communicated to men by these heavenly bodies The one is to shine and giue light vnto the Earth The seconde to distinguish times dayes and yeares The third to forewarne men of many things profitable for this life not that wee should thinke that all things can be fore-told thereby or that the starres haue force to mooue the minds and willes of men as it were by constraint to this or that For this science hath certaine limittes and boundes over the which it ought not to be drawen For as the chiefe author in this arte Ptolemee himselfe affirmeth that part of Astrologie which is called Iudiciar exceedeth the weaknesse of mens apprehension which is aggreeable to that which God by his owne wordes objected vnto Iob in the place before cited saying Knowest thou the statutes of the heaven canst thou set downe the ruling thereof in the Earth And besides this obscure knowledge of the heavenly influences there are supersticious observations vsed by many in the artificial setting vp of the figure of the heaven applying the same without any sufficient natural cause or reason to every purpose which I for my parte altogether improoue cōdemne And yet it followeth not hereof that this divine science should be allutterly rejected or contemned as many that be ignorant of it do For by it many profitable things ar knowen which some for

betweene our reckonings of 44. yeares but the matter space is not great in substance For doubtlesse that Antichristian kingdome as it hath begun already to fall so shortly shall it come to vtter ruine For Babylon muste needes fall according to the Prophecie of the Revelation In the which we finde also at the end of the 14. Chapter this number of 1600. where it is said That the Vine-presse of Gods wrath was troden without the Cittie and blood come out of it to the horse bridies by the space of 1600. stades or furlungs This number some of the learned vnderstande to be meant of yeares as though after the out-running of 1600. yeares the end shalbe when the wicked shalbe tormented in hell after the similitude of a woundrous great bloud shed in the field But in my judgement that number is rather to be vnderstood of a space of grounde conteining so many Fur-longs or stades For there being eight Furlongs in a myle of our reckoning they come to 200. of our common myles which was the longest reaching of the boundes of the Land of Israel For by the citie is signifyed Spirituall Ierusalem the Church of God within the which the Elect and godly are conteined And the tredding of the vine-presse without the Citie is meante of them that are out of the true Church which are in a far greter number vpon whom Gods wrath doth fal as it wer comprehending the whole space of the Land without the citie But to returne to that Treatise of the second comming of Christ the author insisteth very much vpon the number of 5555. from the creation of the world which after his reckoning endeth in the year of Christ 1593. yeares but after our count the 1607. yeare of the which number he gathereth a great mysterie Because it conteineth both an Arithmeticall Geometrical proportion of numbers to wit an Arithmeticall in proceeding by Foure fiues and a Geometrical by reason the parts therof are made vp in progres by multiplication of 10. As fiue-times ten mak 50. ten-times 50. mak 500. ten times 500. make 5000. Or if ye like to proceed the cōtrary way the tenth part of 5000. is 500 the tenth part of 500. is 50. the tenth part of 50. is 5. wherof he gathereth that after the cōpleiting of 5555. years frō the Worldes creation there shall fall foorth a merveylous change of the estate of the World as indeed there was not such a concurrence of numbers since the yeare of Christ 496. Neither shall the like so long as the World lasteth Now because of the perfection of the number of fiue aboue other numbers it comprehendeth in it all vnities of the which all other numbers do consiste be they eauen or odde and because distributiue justice standeth in Geometrical proportion hee gathereth and supposeth that the Lord God maker and governour of all things by this proportionable agreeing of numbers would leade vs to a certaine deepe consideration of a perfite expyring and ende of all thinges So that hee trusteth the comming of the Sonne of GOD to judgment shortly thereafter to insue To the which he addeth many other arguments and conjectures to the same purpose As to me albeit I like not to follow any Pythagorical superstition in observation of numbers yet in so far as we may haue any good ground out of holy Scriptures or evident reason For such reckoning I think it not altogether to be refused having the concurrence of other good testimonies to confirme the same As indeed there appeares to be some greate mysterie in the conjoyning of so manie fiues to-gether For before it or with it the manifolde Eclipses that are to fall out with their effects and specially that fearefull Eclipse of the 1605. yeare wherein the Sun shall be allutterlie darkned at Noone-daie whereof the effectes shal continue certaine yeares thereafter pretende great mutations and perturbationes to ensue in those few yeares following As wartes seditiones pestilences famine with many other grievous calamities and Tragicall eventes such as treasons conspiracies so that few men may truste one another wherewith the common societie of men is like to be dissolved and all licencious libertie to wickednesse to haue place And shortlie Loue to waxe colde and selfe-loue to waxe hote with all other such enormities and corruptiones as the Apostle PAVLE prophecieth to fall foorth in the latter dayes in his Epistles And namely in matters of Religion new sectes and heresies shall aryse with a merveilous defection from the faith according to the wordes of our Maister Christ When the Sonne of man shall come beleeue yee he shall finde faith in the earth But the most evident testimonie of all is the agreement of those said heavenly signes with the prophecies of the Revelation of the sixt and seventh trumpets For the end of the sixt trumpet and Vi●le and the beginning of the seaventh vnder which now we are agree together as they doe in all the reste Nowe the summe of all those tokens and signes is to declare how when God sendeth his Worde and Preachers of the Gospell in the worlde men refusing the same are tormented with wartes and manie other calamities and that by his juste judgement This is meant first generally by opening of the seaven seales of the closed booke For at the first seale opening the white horse and the ryder with his bow bent signifyeth the Preaching of the Evangel At the second seale opening the red horse with his rydar betokeneth the sworde blood and battel which God sendeth in the VVorld being disobedient to the preaching of the Gospel Like wise the black-horse with his ridar and the ballance in his hande at the opening of the thirde seale signifyeth dearth famin sent for the same cause And the fourth horse being of pale colour with his ridar Death at the opening of the fourth seale declareth the plague of pestilence and other deadly diseases punishing mens rebellion and disobedience to the Gospell At the opening of the fift seale The Saintes Martyrs for the testimonie of the trueth craue revenge at God hand for the innocent shedding of their bloud At the sixt seale opening the great earth-quake with obscuratiō of the Sunne and the reste of the signes therein specified declare great troubles in general corruption darkning of the truth with bloudy persecutiō throwing down of the Ministers of the Gospell so that the Church did lurke in obscurity for a time and many made defection from the Romane Empyre But in the meane time GOD had his servantes marked as is specified in the seaventh chapter Finally at the seaventh seale opening the silence for halfe an hourse signifyeth a little rest by God graunted to his Church in the middest of these troubles And there-with is declared howe GOD accepted the prayers of his Saintes offered by Christ. All these thinges I say testifie in general the estate of the Church and such troubles as haue f●llen foorth

brimstone and stormie tempests It is more-over added in powring out of the seaventh viole in the aire wherby is signifyed a great perturbation of al the elements that there was such an Earth-quake that the like had never bene These tempestes in the aire may both be vnderstoode literallie and Spiritually For literally our Maister Christ fore-warneth vs of the like where he testifyeth that before his latter comming the powers of the heauen shalbe moved spiritually the moving of the aire the great earthquak signifie such a cōfusiō of al things in the world that the lik hath not bin seene of before And by the much and vehement great haile is meant the great coldnes of loue that now wee see in the world as also it was fore told by our Saviour Christ And by his Apostle PAVLE speaking of selfe-loue and lack of zeale in Religion which maketh men to dispise God and godlinesse and to blaspheme against the Gospel and Preachers thereof which plague now al●s doth everie where increase And it is added futher in the text of IOHN that the great citie was divided into three parts By this citie no doubt is meant the externall face of the visible Church composed of true professors Papistes and Hypocrites so that we see there shall not be a full and perfite vnitie of religion to the end of the World But in the midde-time we haue this soli●●e comforte that at the blast of the seaventh trumpet the mysterie of God shall be fulfil●ed toward his Saintes and great joye shal be among the Elect because the Kingdomes of this world are our Lords and his Christs and he shal raigne for evermore And with this shall come the end of this world which albeit it be vncertaine as touching the year day and houre when it shalbe yet certainely it is not farre off seeing al these tokens and others specified in the Scriptures are already fulfilled and the great Angell hath sworne that there shall be time no more The Lord make vs readie for his comming that wee may lift vp our heades from the vanities of this worlde and waite for that day of our Redemption Come Lord Iesus come FINIS A faithfull and godlie Admonition to al true Christians gathered vpon the words of the Apostle PAVLE Ephes. 5. vers 16. Coloss ● vers 5. To redeeme time because the dayes are euill GOD The creator and author of time as hee hath appoynted all things that are done in the World to be measured thereby so hath he ordayned certaine limites and bounds of time some short some longer vnto the life of every man in this earth according as it is written in Io● where he sayeth Are not the dayes of man and the number of his Moneths appoynted with thee O Lord thou hast limited his bounds which he cannot passe ouer And a little before to declare the shortnes of these bounds he compareth the life of everie man that is borne of a woman to a flowre that suddenly shoteth vp and is cut down and vanisheth away as a shaddow and continueth not Likewise DAVID in the Psalme compareth his dayes to an hand breadth and sheweth how every man walketh as in a shaddowe disquieteth him selfe in vaine heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And Pindarus the Poet to expres to the vttermost the brevitie and vncertaintie of mans life compareth it not onelie to a shaddow but to the dreame of a shaddowe And yet so is the corrupt nature of the moste part of men that they imagine and dreame vnto themselues a certaine false opinion of immortalitie in this present most frayle and transitorie life And as the same Poet sayeth a certaine presumpteous hope so hath knit vp our mortall members that wee imagine manie great matters in our mindes and our fore sight hath farre endes To refrayne this vaine curiositie the Prophet Moyses in the ninetie Psalme after that hee hath distributed the frayle estate of mans life declaring how they passe awaie as a sleepe and as the Grasse that groweth in the Morning and at the euening is withered awaie And howe that commonlie the longest tearme of mennes yeares is about three score and ten yeares And if some of greater strength attaine to the age of foure-score yeares yet are they the more subject to laboure and sorrowe hee maketh his supplication vnto GOD that hee will teache vs to number our dayes that wee maie applie our heartes vnto wisedome Whereby hee sheweth that none but they whome GOD of his especiall grace doth illuminate by his Spirite canne rightlie applie their heartes to this true Wisedome to considder the brevitie of the shorte number of the dayes we haue here in this present life Therefore deare brethren and Christians wee haue great neede most earnestlieto call and crie vnto GOD that wee forget not this counte Forthere bee manie that can make great reckonings of long times and manie yeares that are paste before them And yet cannot rightlie reckon the shorte time and continuance of their owne liues yea men wil reckon and counte by Arithmeticke all things and even as the very distance betweene the Heaven and the Earth and the moste highest Starres And yet onelie the faithfull and they that put their confidence in God knowe the distance that is betweene this shorte and transitorie life and that blessed and immortall life which hath no ende vnto the which wee are created and to the which ende this presente life ought to bee directed For deare brethren let vs bat considder the vanitie of the moste parte of menne in this poynte how littele they esteeme of the shorte time they are to remayne in this presente and momentaneous life Not-with-standing moste of all their vayne pretences and imaginationes is to compasse the whole Worlde if it were possible and to doe greate wounders and actes therein For time being so precious and so highlie to be regarded in respecte of the shortnesse of this life that GOD hath lente vs in this wretched Worlde and as the Prophet DAVID sheweth vs moste plainely and evidently in the some score and tenth Psalme wee knowe not how soone the Lord shall saye vnto vs Returne yee sonnes of ADAM vnto corruption And more-over time once being lost cannot be againe recovered for no Gold not price yet is there not any thing where-of men are more prodigall in so much that there is nothing whereof they regarde lesse the losse yea that which is worse the greater parte of menne counte so little of time that for a shorte and transitorie passing of time in this life they lose the ioye and felicitie of that everlasting life and perpetuall time whereof commeth this speec●e cōmonly vsed of this world pas time but by corruptiō of maners of men who esteemlightly how time passeth awaie so they may haue some vaine pleasure in the drist thereof as a thing where with they be fasshed and wearied So wee see how the little time that men haue