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B01207	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 3 of Nouember 1594. intreating of the second comming of Christ, and the disclosing of Antichrist. : With a confutation of diuerse coniectures concerning the end of the world, conteyned in a booke intituled, The second comming of Christ. / Preached by Iohn Dove.	Dove, John,	1594 (1594)	STC 7086.5; ESTC S91767	27,513	64

Downe with it downe with it to the ground Psal 137 Rase it vp rase it vp to the pauement and raise our own houses as high as the wals of Troy or rather if it might be as the tower of Babel seeing that we cannnt inioy them longer than an houre Galen maketh mention of a melancholy man which reading in poets how Atlas supported heauen with his shoulders receiued so deepe an impression of the same in his mind that he was in a bodily feare least Atlas should faint and let heauen fall vpon our heads And shall we which be Christians liue in such carnall security that when we see as it were with our eies and heare dayly with our eares that heauen cracketh haue so little feeling as to think heauē would stand for euer let vs rather with Noah enter into the arke let vs with Lot depart speedily out of Sodom that as Lot himself did which wēt forward not as his wife which looked backe and was turned into a pillar of salt let vs with Ezechias prepare our selues to die and bid the world adue Let vs as Christ willeth vs gird vp our loines haue our lamps lighted in our hands that we may be ready to meete the bride Let vs rather folow the example of sir Tho. More of whom it is said that being offered a petition by a woman as hee went to his execution aunswered Woman I am now going about the kings busines I haue no leysure to read petitions than of Richard the third in Bosworth field who being him selfe as a deadman prepared to execute the L. Standlies son his friends told him it was not then any time to do execution but high time to looke to himselfe I wish that the great Polititians and Wizards of this world who intend as much sacriledge as he did murther would begin to be as wise towards God as they are towards the world and at the last consider that it is nowe no time to cōmit sacriledge but it is high time for them to think on their owne saluation S. Peter putteth them in mind of two godly meditations far more fit for these times and most profitable for the health of their soules Frst saith he Seeing all those things 2. Pet. 3 must be dissolued what maner of persons ought you to be in holy conuersation and godlines looking for hastning to the comming of the day of God by the which the heauens being on fire must be dissolued and the elements shall melt with heat Secondly we must looke for a new heauen and a newe earth according to his promise wherein righteousnes doth dwel land seeing that wee looke for such things wee must bee diligent that we may bee found without spot or blamelesse Some what remaineth to be spoken of the second part which is of the cōming of Antichrist whose cōming the Apostle taketh for a most sure ground to prooue that it is the end of the world where hee saith Yee haue heard that Antichrist shal come euen now there are many Antichrists whereby wee knowe that it is the last houre In my discourse of the comming of Antichrist first because that name hath many significations I will by foure distinctions take away the ambiguitie of the word Secondly I will define what Antichrist is Thirdly I will descend to particulers to discouer vnto you that mā of sinne and to point out who is that Antichrist whom the Apostle meaneth in this place which shal be a sufficiēt proof against our countrimē of Rhemes that his cōming is not now to be expected but that he was 900. yeares since reueled to vs. Such as haue learned the rudiments of Grammer are not ignorant that this proposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth these things likenesse and equalitie in which sense no man can be Antichrist because no man can be like him or equal with him any one which is in the place steed of another according to which signification the pope falsly taketh vpon him that he is Antichrist which is Christs deputie or vicar generall ouer his Church contrarietie and so euery one is Antichrist which is an aduersarie vnto Christ of this Antichrist only the Apostle speaketh which maintaineth doctrine contrary to that which our sauiour Christ hath taught and therfore is an aduersarie vnto him And this Antichrist which is Christs aduersary is takē two maner of wayes in the scriptures as Saint Iohn hath distinguished in this place either generally for any aduersary of the truth or more especially for such an enemy as is capital notorious aboue the rest For where he saith Euen now there are many Antichrists he speaketh not of any one person or state or succession or kingdome aboue the rest but generally of all which oppose thēselues against any point of Christs doctrine But where he saith Ye haue heard that Antichrist shal come he speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one which is eminent and notoriously opposeth himselfe not in one point but in the chief questions of Christian religion Againe this famous and notorious Antichrist is either political or ecclesiastical for Apoc. 13 1 Iohn 4. Apoc. 13 Apoc. 17 the old empire of Rome vnder the heathēs which Iohn calleth a beast with seuē heads and ten hornes is the politicall Antichrist which flourished in the Apostles time of which he said he is now alreadie in the world but the ecclesiasticall Antichrist which is called by 3. names as the beast ascēding out of the earth with 2. horns the harlot sitting vpon the first beast and the beast that was is not is the eight is one of the seuen which 3. names signifie one thing that is the state of Popes raigning in the place of the Emperors for that is to sit vpon the beast with seuen heads and they are called a beast for their crueltie a woman for their Ezec 23 Hosea 2 2. Thes 2 pride an harlot for their idolatrie which is spirituall fornication And this Ecclesiasticall Antichrist is taken also two manner of waies by S. Paule either properly or figuratiuely properly for an whole bodie or kingdome or state which is opposite to Christ where he saith There must come a departure or a reuoltment first and the misterie of iniquitie doth alreadie worke In which words he speaketh of a generall Apostacie from sound religion For in Diuinitie contrary to the rules of Logick indefinite propositions in matter contingent are almost vniuersall not to bee vnderstoode of some few but either of all or else of the greatest part as for example Iniquitie shall abound Luke 18 Matt. 24 charitie shall waxe cold faith shal not be found vpon the earth not the iniquitie or faith or charity of a few is to be vnderstood but almost of all the inhabitants of the earth Againe with the whore haue committed fornication Apoc. 17 the inhabitants of the earth the proposition is indefinite yet generally to bee vnderstoode for so it

A SERMON Preached at Pauls Crosse the 3. of Nouember 1594. intreating of the second comming of Christ and the disclosing of Antichrist With a confutation of diuerse coniectures concerning the end of the world conteyned in a Booke intituled The second comming of Christ Newly perused corrected and the second time imprinted Preached by Iohn Doue Reu 1. Behold he commeth in the Clouds and euerie eye shall see him Imprinted by V. S. for VVilliam Iaggard and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet in Saint Dunstans Churchyard To the most vertuous and Noble Gentleman Maister Frances Gorges WHosoeuer loueth not the Lord Iesus let him be Anathema maran atha had in execration euen to the death But I know that you haue loued him from your cradle forsomuch as you haue bin norished vp in the words of faith and wholsome doctrine which you haue continually imbraced Wherefore in him whom you haue thus loued so long as you cease not to loue him I also loue you as my soule and tender your saluation as mine owne The God euen the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ whom you serue and who is blessed for euermore knoweth that I lie not And howbeit the preaching of the crosse is foolishnesse to them that perish yet seeing it hath pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeue you must suffer a little this my foolishnesse which am gealous ouer you with a godly gealosy Therfore charge you before God and the L. Iesus Christ which shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and in his kingdome that you decline not to the right hād nor to the left neither to schism nor poperie but hate them both as hitherto you haue done with a perfect hatred And though you be yong in yeares yet be not a child in vnderstanding carried about with euery wind of doctrine by the deceit of men and with craftines whereby they lay in wait to deceiue but folow the truth in loue and in al things grow vp into him which is the head that is Christ And so doing assure your selfe that hee which hath begun this good worke in you will performe it vntill the day of Iesus Christ God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercie hath begotten you againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of his sonne from the dead to an inheritance immortall and vndefiled and that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for you blesse you and guide you with his holy spirit that you may increase in wisdom in stature in fauor with God and man and so multiply his graces vpon you that you may goe forward from vertue to vertue from grace to grace and grant that at the length we may meet together vnto a perfect man and to the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ. Yours in the Lord Iohn Doue A Sermon of the second comming of Christ and the disclosing of Antichrist 1. Iohn 2 verse 18. Little children it is the last houre and as ye haue heard that Antichrist shal come euen nowe are there many Antichristes whereby we know that it is the last houre A Briefe admonition concerning the final consummation and end of the world In which admonition I obserue these two things first a bare and simple affirmation that it is not only in the staggering declining age but which exceedeth dotage at the verie vpshot and like a sicke man which lyeth at deaths doore ready to breath out the last gaspe in these words Litle children it is the last houre Secondly an argument for proofe and confirmation therof which is the comming of Antichrist in these words Ye haue heard that Antichrist shall come euen now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last houre Litle children it is the last houre Besides the common and vsuall signification an houre is diuersly vnderstood in the holy scriptures sometimes for the fear and horror of death our Sauiour being in his agonie prayeth to his father in this maner My soule is troubled Iohn 12. father saue me from this houre and that portion of sorrow which in Saint Mathew is called a cup is also called an houre Father if it Mar. 14. be possible let this houre passe away from me Sometimes for the last period of mans life Iohn 13. Rom. 13. He knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this worlde vnto his father Thirdly for any oportunitie and fitnesse of time now the houre is come that we should awake out of sleepe for our redemption draweth nearer then when we first beleeued Fourthly for any small moment or instant farre shorter than an houre as when he sent his Disciples as sheepe among wolues hee armed them with pacience saying When they Matt. 10. shall deliuer you vp take no thought howe or what ye shall answere for vobis dabitur in illa hora It shall be giuen you in that houre But in this place it is taken more largely for houres dayes and yeares and all distance of time betweene the first comming of Christ in humilitie and his second comming in maiestie For since this epistle was written 1500 yeares are alreadie expired and yet the hour not ended which time seemeth to man a date very long Which dwelleth Iob. 4. in a house of clay whose foundation is in the dust who shall be destroyed before the moth whose flesh is clothed with wormes and whose memorie may he compared to ashes who neuer liueth the third part of the yeares of the Hart which brayeth after the water Psal 41. Mat. 24. Psal 39. brooke or the rauen which preyeth vpon the dead carkas nay rather Whose life is but a span long and as nothing before God To man I say it seemeth long because his life is very short but to God which is euerlasting a scantling verie briefe and therefore fitly called an houre For what is one droppe of water to the Ocean sea one graine of Wheate to all the corne threshed on the barne floare after haruest one grape to all the clusters pressed in the winefatte at the time of vintage one acre of ground in the viewe of the mappe of all the world the life of the abortiue and vntimely fruit of a woman to the age of Methusalem the thoughts of a foole to the wisdome of Salomon which had a large heart as the sandes of the sea the knowledge of newe born babes to the experiēce of Noah which saw two worldes the old and the new the center of the earth to the Circumference of heauen a right line to a circle one houre to many thousand yeares the same is this last period of the world beeing compared with eternitie which neuer began and neuer shall end As also for two other reasons that considering the time is so short it may be an incitement to stirre vp the godly and a consolation to comfort the afflicted to