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A08238	Chronologia sacra By the high ... Doctor Phil. Nicolai. lib. 2. de regno Christi. Shortly collected and augmented by Neils Michelsone. Cum priuilegio S. R. Maj. Newly translated out of the Germans and Dence tongue into English, by David Forbes. Pervsed, and accompanied with a short treatise and exhortation tending to repentance; Chronologia sacra. English	Nicolai, Philipp, 1556-1608.; Michelsone, Neils, ed. and trans.; Forbes, David, of Edinburgh.; Arthus, Gotthard, b. 1568.	1630 (1630)	STC 18572; ESTC S106265	30,699	106

man according to his workes O would to GOD wee could consider attentiuelie the prospect of all GODS creatures how they teach vs dayly that all things draweth to their end all things waxe worse and briefer the earth giveth not her wonted fruits but worse men sinneth with new sinnes GOD plagueth againe with new sicknesse and the life of man commonly attaineth not vnto former and wonted age and commonly cut off in her first prime the waters giue not their wonted aboundance of creatures the sunne and Moone misseth their wonted shine and vertues the starres of Heaven are turned into comets for preaching of GODS vengeance the Aire and all elements are moved with fearefull and vnacquainted tempestuousstormes and all thinges as it were wish to bee disolved so that the earth is waerie worne and overburdened with the wickednesse of her creatures also that shee fainteth trembleth and wisheth to bee fred and disburthened of her most vntolerable birth all which prophecies fulfilled and conferred together with the experience of this our age there is no spirituall man but of necessitie must conclude that the day of the LORD is at hand and if any learned Divines haue ought to pretend as yet not fulfilled yet I perswade my selfe there is none of them but will subscryue to CHRISTS owne words that the latter tymes shall bee shortned for the Elects sake Math. 24. and that all the Saints in Heaven are now rejoycing and hoping for the accomplishment of the fulnesse of their joy when that soule and bodie may be coupled and vnited together and enter with all the blessed Elect into that glorious and triumphant Church and Kingdome of glory Therefore to conclude I say Will nothing moue thee vnto this repentance no the mercies patience and long suffering of GOD can moue the● neither the benefites and temporall blessings of GOD bestowed vpon thee nor the prospect and defection of elements and creatures neither the abhomination and wickednesse of mankynd no not the dayly experience of violent death can moue thee yet let the feare of imminent justice and day of the LORD that glorious Kingdome of Heaven now at hand moue thee to repentance and amendement of life I pray thee consider with thy selfe if there bee any creature created in Heaven or in earth who can by any evident argument assure thee that when thou sittest downe to thy table that thou shall ryse before CHRIST come in the clowdes and aske account of thee or when thou goest out of thy doores about thy worldly respectes to turne back to thine house but that thou may be caught into the clowdes of Heaven before the justice seate of GOD either when thou lyest downe in thy bed with thy mortall bodie but that thou shall be in an eye blinck in thy sleepe exchanged into an immortall creature and presentlie presented before the glorious throne and Majestie of CHRIST IESUS to giue account of thy workes Good LORD when I doe meditate with my selfe of the imminencie of this Kingdome of Heaven and of the former workes of mankynd in this age it troubleth my thoughts and vnquyeteth my spirits and maketh my bones to quake and my flesh to tremble for feare to thinke how that the LORD of Glory shall find the whole world in such damnable and pitiefull estate and how few they are who are prepared with the oyle of grace in the lampes of their heartes shall hee not rather find men busied about the vanities of the world and lustes of the flesh then attending the comming of the LORD IESUS O doolefull and miserable experience O wicked abhomination and sinfull generation of mankynd What fearefull justice art thou prophecying to bee imminent Oh how doolefull lamentable and sorrowfull will the event proue to many who are sleeping in sencelesse securitie in the lap of worldly vanities awaken O secure man and harden not thy heart nor delay not the tyme of thy repentance abuse not the long patience and suffering of GOD accept of grace in this verie last moment of grace for now the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand where the gates of grace and mercie shall bee closed and never opened nor offered againe O miserable wretched damned and forlorne creature art thou if thou repent not in time how pittifull shall then thy estate bee when thou shall bee forced with perpetuall shame infamie and confusion to stand naked in the presence of all creatures and before the justice throne of GOD where thou shalt heare that horrible sentence of the KING of all Kings and judge of all the whole world Depart from mee yee workers of iniquitie into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels O terrible and fearfull sentence once pronunced how fearfull and vnexpressible shall thy paine bee where no repentance no teares no treasures no friend no foe no griefe no sorrow will then helpe thy miserable damnable desperate soule out of her endlesse quaill and never consuming torments And on the contrare how joyfull shall that soule bee who hath repented heere in this life when they shall bee promoted in the Heavens to liue as Kings in that everlasting happinesse and joye of all Saincts The LORD of his mercie make vs prepared against the comming of the LORD IESUS to whom with the Father and holy Ghost be praise and glory for ever AMEN

CHRONOLOGIA SA●●● By the high 〈◊〉 Doctor PHIL. NICOLA 〈◊〉 de regne Christi Shortly collected and augmented by Niels Michelsone C●● Privilegio S. R. Maj. Newly translated out of the German● and Dence tongue into the English By DAVID FORBES Pervsed and accompanied with a short treatise and exhortation tending to repentance MATH Chap. 3. verse 2. Repent for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand Vitae finem perpende de ●rastino haud vllus securus EDINBVRGH Printed by Iohn Wreittoun 1630. TO THE RIGHT HONOV●ABLE THE RIGHT REVE●END AND WORTHY ●H● LORD PROVEST BAILIFS MINISTERS and remnant ●●●selers of EDINBVRGH All ●●●●se of grace heere and glor●● heereafter c. RIght Honourable right Worthie renowned Senat and Pastors I Finding my selfe somewhat bound vnto your benevolent favours therefore I in minde did decree to giue out the first fruits proofe of my labours vnder the tuition and defence of your Honourable wisedomes and seeing I found this briefe and compendious German worke to bee fit for my purpose especially in those tymes when men are most secure sleeping in worldly vanities I was in a manner incited through conscience for to lay on my Talent vnto the benefite of mine owne natiue Countrie beeing obliged for to approue that which I did publickly professe before your worthie Senat and within your renowned Citie Therefore I could see none more meete to dedicate the proofe of my labours as vnto the conspicuous publicke censure of your Honourable Senat Right Honourable the Author of this little worke is a German Doctor in divinitie to Hanburgh Doctor Philip. Nicolaj now in the LORD who appearantly hath beene graced and indued with a gift of prophecie as experience and event of time hath testified in his travels who is the right fundamentall ground of this worke and prophecie written by him 33. yeares since namely in the yeare of CHRIST 1596 which was found extant presently after him in Latine and thereafter translated in the Germane tongue by Mr. Gothard Artus to Da●ssick namely in the yeare of CHRIST 1598. whereout a Dence Professor called Niels Michelsone hath gathered this briefe worke and translated againe in Dence and Printed lately Anno 1628. The substance is a briefe analogie of times conferred with Scripture out of Ezekiell Daniel and Revelation of Iohn containing a Prophecie and successe of the Ghospell to the worlds end concluded with the Authors protestation which I thought good to translate and accompanie with an exhortation to repentance and benefite mine owne Nation with the same Heerewith persuading my selfe of acceptance I doe thrust this poore myte of my travels into the treasurie of your Christian and charitable dispositions recommending it vnto the protection and tuition of your Honourable wisdomes and you and your doings vnto the grace of GOD. Yours in CHRIST IESVS David Forbes TO The Christian READER GEntle Reader I haue thought good to benefite thee with this little worke de regno CHRISTI and to translate it in our owne commoun language that it may come in publict view of all which I haue out of loue and for thy spirituall well pervsed accompanied with a breefe treatise and exhortation to repentance requesting thee as a spirituall freind to cover my weaknesse and imperfection therein with the vaile of charitable censure but as for the translation it selfe I shall approue it before all censurs whatsomever my Master may well pretend it not to be decored with the ornate phrase of language but yet I hope he must subscryue it to be the true translation according to the German and Dence phrase it selfe which wee ought receaue in good part seing the Histories and Prophecies both of Ezekiel Daniel and Revelation of Iohn haue as it were hitherto beene dark but now in the end dayly more and more opned and cleared so well by faithfull Preachers as also by dayly experience which the Prophets doe testifie clearely that men shall bee enlightned in those mysteries at the end as you can remark in the Authors warrand for searching of the Scriptures wherein we see plainly a speciall illumination of the Spirit prophecied vnto some for opening of all hid prophecies and partes of Scripture yet albeit it is no wayes the Authors meaning absolutely to determine and appoynt vnto GOD the tyme and end of these things which secreete the Father hath reserved for himselfe only as he protesteth heere in the end for the yeere day and houre wee may not know but yet of all tokens which our LORD IESUS hath revealed vnto vs as likewayes the experience of our tymes conferred and compared with these Prophecies wee can easily discerne that all these prophecies are most fulfilled and that the world will soone take an end and therefore should admonish vs to haue the lampes of our heartes prepared that wee may convoy our Brydgroome the LORD IESUS into that blessed Heaven of all happinesse To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost bee all praise and Dominion AMEN Thine in the LORD DAVID FORBES THE AVTHORS WARRAND for searching of Scripture DANIEL 12. verse 4. BVT thou O Daniel shut vp the words and seale the booke till the end of the time many shall runne to and fro knowledge shall bee encreased Verse 9. And hee said Goe thy way Daniel for the words are closed vp and sealed till the end of the time Verse 10. Many shall be purified made white tried but the wicked shall do wickedly none of the wicked shall haue vnderstanding but the wise shall vnderstand IEREMIAH 23. Verse 20. In the latter dayes yee shall vnderstand it plainely REVELATION 10. verse 7. But in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh Angel when he shall beginne to blow the trumpet even the mysterie of GOD shall bee finished as hee hath declared to his servants the Prophets Verse 11. And hee said vnto mee Thou must prophesie againe amongst the people and nations and tongues and to many Kings IWP CHRONOLOGIA SACRA THE CALLING TYME OF THE IEWES 41 ½ Yeares YEare after the birth of CHRIST 29 Iohn Baptist began to preach repentance and to baptize And in the said yeare began the time of the Iewes mercifull calling which conteineth in it selfe 41 ½ yeares Apoc. 14.15 Anno Christi 30. Christ was baptized and then discovered himselfe to the people whom he was and that by his preaching and miracles Anno Christi 31 Iohn Baptist is cast in prison Anno Christi 32 he was beheaded Anno Christi 34 Christ was crucified stood vp and ascended into Heaven The calling tyme of the Gentils 1600 yeares ANno Christi 70 endeth the calling tyme of the Iewes when their chiefe Citie and whole policies were destroyed to the ground and in their place goeth on the calling tyme of the Gentils of the which Christ gathereth now his Church which mercifull calling of the Gentils indureth 1600 yeares as it is written in the Revelation chap. 14. verse 20 and is vnderstood by the 1600

certaine of things past For Heaven and earth will perish but one jote or one word of the LORD shall not perish This spirituall echo resembleth well in our eares as Iohn the Baptist would say I exhort you to repent because of those miserable times in that godlinesse amongst you is thinne and Pharisaicall decisions and other diversities is in your Church as likewise all sinne and wickednesse aboundeth amongst you and the Kingdome of grace is at hand now to bee offered in the Messias and Sonne of GOD CHRIST IESUS and which Kingdome of grace who so receaveth by faith and repentance now in this last time of your calling shall inherit the Kingdome of Heaven and Kingdome of glorie and which Kingdome of Heaven no man can attaine vnto without this true repentance and amendement of life and which notable trumpet of repentance may verie well bee applyed vnto this age Therefore thou who readest this and thou who bearest this repent amend thy life in regard of those evill and latter dayes in that true godlinesse is thinne amongst vs and true religion is rent and covered with all sort of schismes and diversities in the Church of GOD and the whole earth is overladen with wickednesse and sencelesse securitie Let vs now lift vp our heads and light vp the lamps of our hearts for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand where once grace shall rest to bee offered at which tyme all true penitents shall bee gathered and inherite that blessed glorious and everlasting Kingdome of Heaven The spirituall meaning of this text importeth a circumstance and necessitie of this repentance as if hee would say for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand and therefore it is necessare that yee repent and amend for who so desireth to bee partakers of this Kingdome of Heaven hee can not come without this repentance Also that this repentance is such a necessare thing that thou canst not attaine vnto salvation without it yea thou canst not bee more saued in the day of the LORD without repentance then Noah was saved without the Arke from the Flood O happie is hee and thryse happie who attaineth vnto this sanctified repentance it is the pricke of conscience it is the verie sacrifice and faith of Abraham it is the sacrificing knyfe to mortifie the outward man It is the firie and fervent burning zeale of the soule accompanied and endued with the spirit of prayer and godly sorrow quenched with the teares of true repentance and with a comfortable joy and feeling of the mercies of GOD yea it bringeth vs vnto the verie sacrifice it selfe vnto the which Isaack was a type namely vnto true faith in the Blood of IESVS It is the budding rodde of Aaron which shall bring foorth such blossomes of a godly lyfe and joy in the holy spirit heere in this earthly tabernacle and in the morning in the Tabernacle of the testimonie that is when the evening of thy time is past and thou art brought vnto the morning of thy endlesse rest either by death or the day of the LORD then shall it budde and blossome vnto thee such fruites of endlesse and vnspeakable happinesse as no tongue can bee able to expresse nor heart to thinke of It is the strong hand of Iacob who by faith will wrestle and take such holde on CHRIST that it will never leaue him vntill the time hee be blessed Therefore good Christian let vs consider what excellent times and occasion wee haue as yet to day to repent while that the gates of grace are open let vs runne to this throne of grace so long as it is offered in the Ghospell and not delay the time of our repentance Now is the Kingdome of Heaven at hand even that glorious Kingdome of IESVS when the gates of grace shall bee shut and never offered no more when no repentance teares or prayers will prevaile Now I say in this last evening and houre of the world so long as CHRIST is standing knocking with the hammer of his Ghospell at the doore of thy soule refuse not to open least the time of his standing be now out and thou then bee left and locked without the doores of his mercie as a wretchfull and woefull reprobate for ever then vnhappie man that euer thou was borne thou shall then repent but too late and all thy repentance is then but aggravating of thy sorrowes and never dying torments in hell for ever The rich Glutton and reprobate already there would giue the whole earth if they did possesse it to haue the time place and meanes of grace offered vnto them as now wee haue but they can not redeeme this time with thousands of worlds mountaines of gold not so much therefore be eased as for a minute of an houre out of their never dying torments Therefore I would request the resonable man who in some sence hath gotten a sight and tast of the mercies of GOD and of thy effectuall calling in IESUS CHRIST to consider meditate and ponder with thy selfe of the fearefull event and end of the world now at hand and therefore to preasse with all diligence to frame thy lyfe and conversation according to the prescript word of GOD and let our myndes be so occupied about heavenly things dayly and hourely attending the comming of our LORD IESUS CHRIST who assuredly finding the lampe of thine heart prepared with the oyle of grace and teares of sanctified repentance will at that day transforme and metamorphose thine earthie tabernacle into an immortall body where both soule and body shall enjoy that joy of all joyes which is to behold the most comfortable sight of GOD himselfe yea that blessed contemplation of the holy Trinitie wherewith thy glorified soule shall bee filled so with such an vnexpressible and vnspeakable blessed joy comming from this maine Ocean and fountaine of all happinesse that it shall overflow with joy that it can not bee able to conteane more joy of it selfe than the presence alone and contemplation of GOD which hee himselfe shall fill it with yea ever enjoying and rejoycing and never wearying but ever praising and gloriefying GOD in all eternitie which blessednesse is the joy of all Sainctes and Elect and will be motion eneugh vnto them to rouse and waken Gods children for attending the LORD IESUS second comming in the clowdes and not to delay the tyme of their repentance but as for the secure man who hast not atteined vnto a sense of this joy neither knowest thou what this meaneth it shall bee little helpe vnto him because hee is sleeping in senselesse securitie hee may well dreame of these joyes but he hath no benefite of them because hee accounteth more of worldly things and hath a benummed conscience that he hath eyes and sees not eares and heares not a heart and yet can not vnderstand Hee is like Adam new made lying before GOD created with his whole members and yet hath no vse of them vntill the LORD breath in a living soule

shall be brought at last to some practise of repentance Art thou so farre come that thou art affraied of thy selfe it is something I pray thee then let this feare moue thee so farre as to heare diligently GODS Word partake the sacraments vse the meanes of grace pray to GOD albeit thy prayer bee imperfite and but lip labour lye and waite at the poole of Bethesda which will and obedience of thy selfe this feare may worke in thee and yet thou being a vnregenerat man it can helpe nothing in the inward worke of this repentance but yet art thou thus well exercised Now in the tyme of grace and lying at the poole of Bethesda and gates of grace Hast thou attained so much as a desire of this repentance then I am assured the LORD shall pittie thy hard case and the Angel shall come downe and moue the watter and thou shall bee washen from thy sinne and leprosie Wilt thou thus thrust thy selfe in where CHRIST is and thirst after this repentance then assuredly some tyme there shall goe one vertue or other from him which shall alter and change thy hard heart into an heart of waxe so that it shall melt with the sorrowfull teares of repentance and CHRIST shall giue them of the Well of the water of lyfe freely who thirsteth after it which when thou hast a teined vnto a kynd of repentance then marke well it bee this which briefly hath these infallible tokens and methode in it selfe true and sanctified repentance indeede that is I say after a sensible sight and confession of thy sinne thou art accompanied with the teares of true repentance out of a contrite and broken heart where thou dost reape faith in the mercies of GOD the Father through IESUS CHRIST and joy in the holy GHOST budding foorth in the fruites of a godly lyfe and holie conversation these are infallible tokens of the true children of GOD and are so fast linked together that they can not bee separated from others Art thou therefore vnregenerate yet sleeping in dead securitie Hast thou not gotten a sight and sense of thy sin Thy cace is fearefull for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand when the divell shall lay all thy sins before thee where thou shall bee wakned with a fearefull and terrible sight of thy miserie Hast thou not as yet confessed thy sinnes in private before thy GOD and accused thy selfe of thy transgressions thy estate is to bee pittied the day of the LORD is at hand when thou must confesse them publicklie against thy will where the Devill shall accuse thee yea thy owne conscience shall tell thee that thou art justly condemned and cast away for ever Hast thou not sorrowed with the teares of true repentance The tyme is at hand when thou shall with a desperate sorrow so lament and bewaile thy miserable estate that thou shall never bee comforted out of thy endlesse miserie and never dying paine Hast not thine heart as yet conceaved a certaine joy in the holy GHOST and faith of the mercies of GOD in his Sonne CHRIST IESUS then O poore soule and catiue creature albeit thou wert a Monarch and hade the riches of Croesus yet thy cace is most miserable and lamentable then I say O desperate creature I pray thee delay not the tyme of thy repentance but goe and sell all that thou posessest for this precious Iewell and arlepennie of thy salvation for the day of the LORD is at hand when thou shall bee shut out of that endlesse joy and rest for ever and then shall reape no faith in the mercies of GOD but such a doolefull and miserable desperation out of the justice of GOD that thou shalt curse the verie day of thy birth and nativitie Hast thou not hated the Devill and thy sinne heere in this life the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand when as the Divell and thy sinne shall so hate thee with a perpetuall hatred and torment thee in the Hell for ever Hast thou not kythed heere in this lyfe the fruites of true repentance in glorifying GOD and in charitable and mercifull workes vnto thy brethren I will assure thee the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand when as God shall be glorified in thy endlesse ruyne and destruction where no mercie nor charitie shall bee kythed on thee but most horrible and tyrannous torments executed by the Devill and his Angels O miserie of all miseries O paine of all paines and never dying torments how horrible and fearefull is thy rememberance Oh Father Abraham who in thy lifetime was a paterne of mercie and pittie on the poore and indigent how art thou thus disposed as not to pittie the poore catiue and tormented Dives in Hell fire and send Lazarus vnto him that hee may dip the top of his finger in water to coole his tongue in such fire and vnquenchable flame or how doest thou not comfort him in his miserie that it shall either end from him or hee from it which would haue giuen this poore damned and tormented Dives some contentment but I see thou dost rather rejoyce as to haue pitie in that it tendeth vnto the glorie and justice of GOD and that his paine is endlesse and never shall bee eased how terrible should the consideration bee vnto a good Christian of the straitnesse of this torments and perpetuitie of paine for ever But on the contrare art thou a soule who hast repented of thy former transgressions and dost repent dayly of thy infirmities who hast attained vnto this sanctified sorrow out of the which thou hast conceaved the hony of true repentance namely joy in the holy GHOST faith in the mercies of GOD in his Sonne CHRIST IESUS it is a certaine token thou art a child of God and the Kingdome of Heaven which thy soule thirsteth after is at hand where thou shalt injoy that fulnesse and summe of all blessed joy with all the Sainctes and Angels in the Heavens for ever which glorious blessed and everlasting Kingdome of GOD is so furnished with joyes that no creature in Heaven nor in earth can thinke of much lesse expresse this eternall happinesse layed vp in store for the elect where the just shall shine like the Sun Math. 15. This is the promised crowne of glory this is the Paradice and place of pleasure and joy of all Saincts this is the hidden Manna which no man knoweth but hee who injoyeth it and with DAVID Happie are they that liue in thy house O LORD Psal 8. 3. for they shall bee drunke with the river of GODS divine pleasures and with the abundance of GODS house Psal 3.5 where wee shall see GOD which is our chiefe happinesse Augustine speaking of this Kingdome sayeth O joy aboue all joyes passing all joyes and without which there is no joy when shall I enter into thee when shall I injoy thee to see my GOD that dwelleth in thee O everlasting Kingdome O Kingdome of all eternities O light without end O peace of GOD