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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

and pleasaunt dayes in this world But let vs be of good cheare as men that are renued and regenerate in Christ thorow the holy Ghost And euen as he is the Lord of heauen and earth and all creatures therein so we by hym are the Lordes of all signes what soeuer semeth terrible to the eyes of mā neither can any thing hurt vs n●… although it take away ou●… life For our lyfe and conuersation is not here but we looke for an other lyfe when our body shal be deliuered which lyfe is now hid with Christ in heauen through fayth as S. Paul sayth but shortly shal be reuiued before all the world in immortall and euerlastyng bryghtnes When both in body and soule we shall raigne with God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be all prayse honour and glory world without ende Amen ¶ The Signes that were geuen to the inhabitantes of Hierusalem before their destruction A Whole yeare before the commyng of Vespas●…an to 〈◊〉 the C●…e right ouer it was sene a blasing Starre lyke vnto a sword which the common people dyd interpret to be a token of their deliueraunce out of bondage into the which they were brought by the Romanes Before the warre begon at the feast of vnleauened br●…ad which was then the viij day o●… Aprill there was sodenly sene at nyne of the clocke at night for the space of halfe an houre such a great light about the Alter and the Temple that it semed to be mydday At y same feast a Cow beyng brought to bee sacrificed brought forth a Lambe in the myddest of the Church The Cast gate of the Temple beyng of brasse and shut euery nyght but not without the strength of twenty men beyng locked ●… barred with diuers lockes and barres was sene at v●… of the clocke at night and as Egesippus testifieth diuers nyghtes to open it selfe without the hand of men This thyng was thought of the most parte to bée a token of good lucke and that the gates of their enemyes should open vnto them of theyr owne accorde But some that were of th●… wiser sorte sayd it was a token that the strength of the Temple should be dissolued without the hand of man that it myght be spoyled of theyr enemyes and destroyed A few dayes after theyr solemne ●…eastes there appeared in the cloudes before Sunne settyng a vision of charets and hostes of armed men where with all the Cities of Iurye the countrey there about were inuaded and ouerrunne At the feast called Pentecost the Priestes entryng in the nyght into the inner Temple according to theyr maner to do theyr diuine seruice first they perceaued a noyse or rushelyng after they heard a voyce saying often Let vs departe hence let vs depart hence One called Iesus the sonne of Anani a base man and of low degree foure yeares before the warre the Citie beyng in great wealth and quyetnes commyng to the celebration of one of theyr solemne feastes called the feastes of tabernacles went vp into the Temple and sodenly cryed out with a loude voyce saying A voyce from the East a voyce from the West a voyce from the foure wyndes a voyce agaynst Hierusalem and the tēple a voyce agaynst new maryed mē and new maried women a voyce against all this people crying thus day and night he went thorough all the stréetes of the Citie Certaine of the chief men beyng a●…ed and fearyng that it was a token of misfortune tooke the mā and whipped him But he whiles he was beaten cried styll as before and beyng still beaten vntill a man myght sée hys bare bones hée ●…er desired them to let hym go neither ●…yd hee shed any teares for the matter but cryed still at euery strype Wo wo vnto the inhabitauntes of Hierusalem and at the length dimissed as a man out of hys wittes he cryed still as before especially on the solemne feast dayes vntill the slege of the Citie at which tyme he entryng vp on the wall and crying wo wo vnto the City the Temple and the people he cryed at the last w●… vnto my selfe and was cast do wne dead with a stone hurled to hym by the enemyes out of one of theyr engyns They were nothyng moued with these sygnes but thinkyng they should haue victory ouer theyr enemyes resisted them vntill both they and theyr Citie was destroyed accordyng to the wordes of our Sauiour Luc. 19. 43. ¶ Signes and wonders signifiyng alteration or misery and calamity of certaine Countreys and Nations or of great Personages ABout the yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3458. Tarquinius surnamed Superbus the seuēth Kyng of the Romanes was depriued of his kyngdome by hys subiectes and thrust out by force of armes and the state of gouernaunce altered from the gouernement of one monarche vnto ij yearely offices called Consuls a little before which time in signification thereof as Historiographers do write a Dogge did speake and a Serpent ●…id barke T. Plinius lib. 8. Cap. 41. The yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3538. the light of the Sunne was so taken away by an ●…lipse séene in Grece that a man might sée the Starres aswell at midday as at midnight Shortly afterwardes folowed y warre called the warre of Peloponesus which continued seuen and twenty yeares Thucidides The yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3698. at Rome and the countrey there about bloud in stede of water gushed out of the sprynges and milke from heauen lyke raine Shortly after followed the warre of Carthage agaynst the Romanes which cost the lyues of many thousandes Orosius li. 4. Cap. 5. Anno Domini 1452. Constantinople in Grece where in those dayes was the Emperours Palace was besieged ouercome of the great Turke called Mahomet the second of that name who when he had gottē the victory vsed most beastly cruelty towardes the Christians both men women and children old and young rich and poore The Emperour beyng slayne hys head was set vpon a speare caryed round about the Citie the more to greue his subiectes hys wife and daughter with many noble women were rauished and after cut in péeces all the noble men were slayne the common people were made bond slaues and many other such lyke vilanies were done bysides the bryngyng of the whole countrey of Grece into hys owne dominion A little before which tyme was sene at Comus a Citie in Fraunce towardes Sunne settyng a great multitude of dogges caryed in the ayre and after thē droues of diuers kyndes of beastes also men armed diuersely some with speares and shieldes who were pursued of a great army of horsemen beyng deuided into diuers cōpanyes For the space of thrée houres the army séemed to be settyng forth at the last came forth a tall and huge man fearefull to behold sittyng vppon a terrible horse séemyng to bée the Capitayne of the host and many such straunge thynges appeared vntill nyght when they

could be no more sene THese few examples I haue here added in the end of the Sermon to let men see that before great alterations or channges of kyngdomes and common weales God sendeth wonderfull tokens therof to signifie the same before it come to passe whereby with Martin Luther the author of this Sermon we may well conclude that before the alteration of the whole world which is the last day he will send many signes and tokens therof which he sheweth for the most part to be already fulfilled and therefore the end of all thynges is now to bee looked for bycause there hath happened of late dayes many wonderfull Eclipses or darkenyngs of the Sunne and Moone many Sunnes haue bene sene at one tyme many rayne bowes many terrible blasyng Starres and other straūge sightes of fire in the ayre many great tempestes of wyndes with flouds and earth quakes which haue destroyed and ouerflowē both Cities and whole countreyes Wherof here might be added diuers examples both of such as happened before Luther did write this Sermon as also since that tyme But they are almost innumerable and haue bene partly sene with our owne eyes and are at large set out in Print by Conraedus Gesnerus Marcus Fritschius and others who haue written no small bookes of such wonderful and straūge thynges as by the prouidence of almighty God haue happened before tyme to this end that we seyng these thynges come to passe forespoken by our Sauiour might the more diligently watch for hys commyng least we folowyng the example of the lewde seruaunt leade a carelesse lyfe in all kynde of wickednes and he commyng vpon vs vnwares geue vs our portion with hypocrites and dissemblers in euerlastyng fire prepared for the deuill and hys aungels God graunt vs therfore to watch for the commyng of our Sauiour that we beyng prepared with oyle in our Lampes he may take vs with hym vnto euerlastyng●…lyfe Amen Esay 65. 17. and. 66. 22. 2. Thes. 2. 3 Mat. 20. 1. Mat. 20. 6. Math. 24. 49. Mat. 25. 4 Actes 17. ●…1 The effect of the Gospel ▪ and the cause why it was written Signes be fore y last day proued by humane reasō groū ded vpon a certayne truth Rom. 15. 4 Example hereof are the inhabitantes of Hierus●… ▪ before whose destruction God sent most horrible tokens thereof Whereof som they re garded not ▪ some they enterpreted to signifie victory ouer theyr enemies cōtrary to the true meanyng of them and of God which sent them ▪ and contrary to the expresse wordes of our Sauiour which before had foretold them Luke 14. 43 The faithful haue no more cause to feare the signes of y last day the Noe had when the flud came ▪ or Lot at y destruction of ●…odome Go●…orra which s●… company of them that then were preserued is a signe of the little flock which goeth by the narrow gate Math. 14. Math. 24. 29. Prou. 17. 22. Reade that discouery of the Spa nish Inqui sitiō for the further declaration of these wordes Gene. 4. 8. ●…e ●…7 41. Exod. 1. 15 1. Sam. 19 11. and. 1. Reg. 18. 13. and. 19. 2. Math. 2. 16 God●… king ●…oure as it ●… takē for the whole world can ●…t be enlarged but ●…s it is taken for the congregation of the Christians when hys worde is truly preached so it may and is dayly enlarged 1. Cor. 15. 19. Apoc. 22 ▪ 20. Unto this place apper tayneth the hystory of of y Emperour Char les the v. of that name who the yeare of our Lord. 1521. sēt for Luther vnto Wormes a Citie in Germany by an Herauld of armes with letters of safe cōduct to whom hee came boldly although some persuaded hym that hee should neuer haue come from thēce alyue There he was examined before the Emperours Ma●…esty of y bokes that he had wri●…tē and whether he would recāt them or any thyng in them contained Who aunswered that he would ●…cant so much as any mā was able to proue false by the worde of GOD otherwise he would deny nothyng that hee had written After a while when no other aunswere could be gottē of him ▪ the Emperour gaue hym leaue to departs without daūger bycause of his safe conduct a●… though many laboured to the contrary especially the Popes Embassadour as in the booke of y Actes and Mon●… mēts more playnly is declared Esay 4. 11 Psal. 146. 3. Psal. 33. 10 Prou. 21. 1●… The ●…romise of God is the ground of true fayth which promise was thoro●…ly ●…oted in Luthers hart as ap peareth eu●… dently by his words The secō●… part of the Sermon Christes 〈◊〉 ●…araphastically expounded ●… Cor. ●… 9. The difference betwene the prognos●…ication of Christ and Astrono●… Certain similitudes whereby it is declared with what ioy wee ought to looke for y commyng of ou●… Sauiour to Iudgement Math. 27. 34. The commoditie of affliction in this world Mat. 24. 30. 1. Thes. ●… 3 Math. 24. 27. 1. Cor. 15. 52. This saying of the wicked is after a sorte true For the good preacher may bee a cause of trouble first bycause where y word of GOD is sincerelye preached the deuill moueth and rayseth tumultes to suppresse it secondly where it is preached and not obeyed the greater shall bee the plagues of the stubburne and stiffenecked people Mat. 6. 10 Mat. 6. 13. The Adder as they say euery spryng of purpose ▪ wresting him selfe thorow a narrow place lea●…eth hys olde skynne behynd him as it were leauyng of his old coate ▪ and putting on a new one This is a a true saying that we can not pray faythfully nor beleue in god a right excepte we ioyfully ●…ooke for commyng of our Sauiour to iudgemēt Mat. 24. 30. and. 25. ●…1 Act. 1 ▪ 11. 10. 42. 17. 30. 2. ●…im 4. 1. Pet. 4. 5. Esay ●…6 19. Ezec. 37. 5. Iob. 19. 26. Mat ▪ 12. 42. Ma●… 12. 25. Luc. 14. 14. Ioan. 11. 24. Luc. 321. 1. Cor. 15. 12. Colos 3. 4. 1. Thes. ●… 14. Ioan. 3. 36 5. 2. ▪ Rom 6. 33. Dan. 12. 2. Mat. 19. ●…9 and 25. 45. Ioan. 3 15. and 4. 1●… 36. Ioan. 6. 27. and 40. and 47. and 54. Ioan. ●…0 28. and 12. 15. and 50. and 17. 2. Act. 1●… 46 48. Rom. 2. 7 ▪ and 5. ●…1 and 6. 22 Gal. 6. 8. Tit. ●… 2. and 3. 4. 1. Cim 1. 16. and 6. 12. 1. Ioan. 1. 2. and 2. 25. and 5. 11 ▪ and 13. and ●…0 Iude Epist. ●…1 M●… ●… ▪ 16. Exod. 20. 2 Gal. 3. 24. Mat. 6. 9. Apoc. 6. 10. The Saintes of God do not require vengeance of theyr enemyes bycause of priuate hatred but bycause they know thē to be Gods enemyes and do rage with deuelishe fury agaynst his holy Church and agaynst hys euerlastyng truth And in this case the loue of our neighbour hath no place where it is repugnant to the loue of god whose glory we ought to perferre before the commodities of all the world Therfore when man is such an enemye vnto GOD that we must needes hate the one and loue y other we must loue God hate man Psal. 139. 21. and in Gods cause pray for the destruction of man Ier. 18. 11 ver 21. as agaynst the enemy of GOD vppon a zeale and feruēt loue of Gods glory especially if they be such as we perceaue offende not of ignoraunce but of malicious stubburnes and that agaynst theyr cōsciēce But in our own cause as they are iniurious vnto our own persō we must rather pray for man then agaynst mā as we are taught by the exāple of our Sauiour and Steuen Act. 7. 60. He●… 4. 3. Gen. 3. 15. Reuel 13. 8 Ioan 1. 2●… 1. Pet. 1 ▪ 19 Ro. 16. 25. Ephes ▪ 3. 9. Colos. 1 26 2. Timo. 1. 10. Tit. 1. 2. ●…it 2. 13. Math. 10. 32. Mat. 10. 38 Rom. 8. 17 2. Tim. 3. 12. Math. 10. 25. Ioan. 16. 2 and. 33. Math. 24. 48. 1. Thes. 4. 17. 1. Cor. 15. 32. Ioā 14. 27 Iob. 1. 17. Rom. 8. 11. Ioā 7. 38 Act. 9. 31. Rom. 5. 3. and. 10. 17. 1●… 14. 5. 1. Lor. 2. 10 1. Lor. 5. 7 2. Cor. 5. ●… 〈◊〉 6. 15 Eph. 4. 24 That is best which is new vnto the world but old vnto God. Colos. 3. 9 Collos. 2. 8 Heb. 11. 1 1. Pet. 1. 12 Rom. 8. 22 A mynde speach attributed to creatures without lyse Esa. ●…4 23. and not properly but figuratiuely ▪ as whē we say the earth doth prayse the Lord that is to say it doth declare hys wonderous workes and the workemanshyp therof ministreth a man matter to prayse the Lord so it desireth y last day that is to say it being accursed dayly more and more for our synne sheweth our miserable estate and what cause we haue to ●…ament and to desire our deliueraūce by the cōmyng of our sauiour to iudgemēt 2. Pet. 3. 13 Apoc. 2●… 1. Esa. 65. 17. and. 66. 22. Here an age may be taken for the space of two thousand yeares whereof there are but thre in all the world one frō the beginning of the world vnto the law the secōd frō the law vnto the cōmyng of our Sauiour and the last from the commyng of our Sauiour vnto the ende of the world which shal be shortened But how much it is vncertain Phil. 3. 20 Collos. 3. 3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. * Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegi●… Regi●… Maiestatis 2570.