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A sermon preached in S. Peters Church in Exceter the 6. day of December last wherin is intreated of the second commming of Christ vnto iudgement, & of the end of the world. By Iohn Chardon maister of Art, and preacher of the word of God.
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sell and ââye for your selues But whyles they went to buy the brydegrome ââe and they that were ready ââat in with him vnto the mariage ââd the gate was shutte vp Anon after came the other virgins and saiâ Lord Lord open to vs. But he ansâred and sayd Verily I say vnto youâ know you not Watch therfore for know neyther the day nor yet the hâwer wherin the Sonne of man shâ come Luk. 12.35 Let your loynes be girded abouâ and your lightes burning and ye yoââselues like vnto men that waight fââ their master when he wil return froâ the wedding that when he commeth and knocketh ye may open vnto him For happy are those seruantes whoâ the Lorde when hée commeth findetâ waking If he come in the secoÌd watch or third watch finde theÌ so happy arâ those seruantes Verely he shall gâââ him selfe and shall make them to sââ downe to meate shall walke by and minister vnto them Luk. 12.39 This vnderstand you If the good man of the house knew what howre the théefe would come hée would surely watch and not suffer his house to be broken vp Euen so if we knewe in what day or hower the Lord would come we would surely watch we would be prepared and adourned âe would haue lightes in our handes ãâã oyle in our Lampes But we doe ât know the day nor hower nor shal ânow And therfore let vs be prepared ãâã man hower that we thinke not Mar. 13.35 wil âe sonne of man come Watch I say ãâã ye know not when the maister of ââe house will come whether at euen â at midnight whether at the cocke âwing or in the dawning least if hée ââme sodeÌly he should find you sléeping Now if the euill seruant shall say thus ãâã his heart Math. 24.48 Tush my maister will deââre his comming and shall begin to ââuite his fellow seruants and shall begân to eat and drink and to be dronken ââe same seruants Lord shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hower when he is not ware shall geue him his portion with hypocrites there shal be wéeping and gnashing of ââeth But contrariwise Luke 12.44 if the Lord shal find his seruaÌt wel doing he shal make him ruler ouer al his houshold Watch therefore and pray continually that we may obtein grace to flee al that shalâ come and that we may staÌd before thâ sonne of man Let vs pray that our flight be not in the winter nor on thâ the Sabboth day Mat. 24. â0 For so our Sauiour counselleth in the 24. of Saint Mathewe For to walke in the winter it was not good and vppon the Sabboth day it was not lawefull Meaning that we should pray and that with a stedfast and ardent fayth that the day of the Lord come not vppon vs vnprepared For if it doe wée shall not escape the euilles that then shal be nor yet be able to stande safely before the Sonne of man Beloued we haue bene warned to leaue our surfetting dronkennesse and to forsake the superfluous cares of this life We haue bene exhorted to watchfulnesse and to prayer and stil are we called vpon for these matters Howbeit wée are lyttle or nothing the better Mat. 12 4â The men of Niniue shall arise at the day of iudgement to condemne vs. For they amended at the short preaching of Ionas We haue bene called vpon with often and long ââeaching and yet cannot frame to lay ârâm vs the old man Ephe. 4.22 that marreth him seâfe with deceiuable vanities But let vâ thinke and beléeue that the negleâting of Gods holy spirit speaking in his prophets can not but prouoke Gods heauie wrath and indignation spedily to bée powred vppon vs. The heauens the earth and sea haue already witnessed the same against vs which vnlesse wée conuert in the measure of our sinnes he will power foorth vpon vs and so wee shall perish in his iustice vtterly that in mercy refused to imbrace his trueth obediently Mat. 3.10 Now is the axe put to the roote of the trée so that euery trée that bringeth not forth gââd fruite shall bée hewen downe Mat. 12.33 and cast into the fire Eyther then make the trée good and his fruit good or make the trée euill and his fruite âill also For beholde Iames. 5.9 the Iudge standeth before the dore It is tyme for vs to awake out of sléepe and to gyrde vp our loynes and to be ready with oyle in our lampes and to be adorne with our wedding garments that wâ may finde entraunce to the Lords marriage For sith it is most certaine thaâ Christ shall come to iudge both quicâ and dead Rom. 14.12 sith that euery one of vs shal geue account of him self to God 2. Pe. 3.10 sith thâ heauens shal passe away in manner ãâã a tempest sith the elements shall meââ with heate sith the earth also and thâ workes therein shal burne sith al thesâ things shall perishe what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation godlinesse looking for and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God ãâã which the heauens shall perish with ââer the elemeÌts shal be consumed with heate â Pe. 3.13 Neuerthelesse we looke for a new heauen and a newe earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse Wherfore beloued séeing we looke for such things let vs be diligent that we may be found of him in peace without spot and vndefiled growing in grace in the knowledge of the Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ that in the ende of the world when he shall come in ãâã clowds with power and great gloâ we perish not with the vnbeléeuers which the Lord graunt for his infinite âercy and goodnesse and for his chosen âââe shorten these vnhappy dayes that âârruptible may be swallowed vp of inâârruptibilitie and mortall of immorâââlity And that as in this woful Egypt âe haue fouÌd him a louing father so in âhe world to come we may behold him â merciful Sauiour Mat. 25.34 may receiue that ãâã and happiest blessing that neuer again shal be reuoked which thing likewise the father of al comfort and consolation spéedily bring vpon vs al for the tender loue of his beloued sonne Iesus Christ to whome with the holy ghost thrée distinct persons in trinitie but one eternal immortal most glorious God be al praise honour glory now and for euer Amen