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The vvorlds assises. Or A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the tenth day of Iuly 1614. being the Sunday before the end of Trinity terme. By Nathanael Kitchener, student in diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Grauenhurst in Bedfordshire
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Kitchener, Nathanael, d. 1620.
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know eth no man no not the Angels of heauen saue the father only what then needs man grieue to be ignorant when the blessed Angels are content not to know it yea more Iesus the Sonne of God was content to be nescient for our sakes In quantum homo in that he was man Some say he knew it euen Quatenus homo as he was Man but not Eatenus to reueale it to men Some haue boasted of reuelations by theÌ„ to set down desinitiuely a certain day of iudgment some by the Astrological aspects of stars some by Arithmetical supputarioÌ„s of numbers would diuine the time of the last time al salse to seduce the simple Of which sorts of people I may say as Cato said of the Sooth-sayers of his time I wonder that they doe not laugh when they meete each other in the streets There were diuerse of the learned in times past who held that as the wals in Iericho fell down the feueÌ„th day after they were coÌ„pasled about with blowing of truÌ„pets shouting of the children of Israel as we read Ios 6.20 So the balding of this world after those 6 great daies wherof one is to the Lord as a 1000. Pet. 3.8 years a 1000. years as one day shal fal theÌ„ shal be that coÌ„tinuall sabaoth when al times seasons shall meete together in coniunction whereof the Prophet Esay speakes ca. 66.23 Theold Thadalmost said the idle Prophesie of Elias falsly shrouded vnder his name in the Iewes Thalmuld is much tossed haled by many that the world shal last 6000. years 2000. vacui before the Law 2000 vnder the Law and 2000. vnder the Gospel The strength of their weake coniecture is 1 As in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen earth and al that therein is so in 6000. yeeres the Lord shall gouerne this world being subiect to generation and corruption and as the seauenth day he rested so in the 7000. shall he hauing gatheredtogether his Church by the preaching ' of his word bring all to euerlasting rest and peace 2. As the Sabaoth was instituted in the euening of the sixt day So by this Sabaoth being vnderstood the last Sabaoth in the end of the last 2000. yeres or a little before shall come the heauenly Sabaoth when all shall rest 3. As the six first Fathers Adam Seth Enos Cainan Malaltel Gared are deade and Enoch the seauenth from Adam was translated into Heauen aliue and sawe no death So for the space of 6000. yeeres the world and death in the world shall bee and in the 7000. shall be blessednesse and immortalitie To shew the errour of this Prophesie in false computation of yeares it will more trouble your Honorable and iudicious cares then edify your hearts onely thus much know that there were before the Law aboue two thousand and fiue hundred yeres and vnder the Law sewer then two thousand Besids this the opinion wants a grouÌ„dworke for it hath no Scripture for Euidence now where that foundation failes there the building fals But what shall be vnder the Gospell wee shall not know vntill the Audit day come at what time euery Mans bill of accounts shall be put in by appointment of the Creator of Time and wages God make vs mean-while good seruants giuen in particular to all Some haue supposed that because Christ liued vpon the earth 32. yeeres and some six moneths that therefore the Time vnder the Gospel shall bee so long for say they The Church hath a relation to Christ and the body of the one a type of the other So then as the naturall bodie tinued on earth 32. yeares so shall the mistical body the Gospell the Church wee who are his members prouided still that sith at the end of these yeares say they shal be the euerlasting Iubiiee of our soules that in the Interim euery one of these yeeres haue a relation to the Mosaicall Iubile that after so many fiâ—â—es bee expired the end shall come But this being but opinion and the opinion of some I leaue it in hast to your reuerend opinions now and to beescanned by the opinions of all at leasure hereafter only desiring you to consider with mee thus much That all ages of man are limited to a certaine number of yeeres except the last part of old age Infancie is reckoned to holde vntill the third or fourth yeare Childhoode vntill ten yeeres Pubertie vnto eÌ„ighteene youth vnto fiue and twentie Courage vntill thirtie fiue or fourtie yeres Constant age vnto fiftie luÌ„pish age vntil 65 only decrepit crookedage hathno time of yers presixt but euen to last vntill the last and the last gaspe bee it sooner or farther off to be the Stage post or bound of tha So likewise this last age of the world cannot bee determined vntill by the Determiners appointment wee see a certaine determination In the meane time let vs redeeme the time considering the time Let vs redeem the time or euilnes of the time with the goodnesse of our liues Let vs take his couÌ„sell who gaue the best councell euen councell for our soules To watch and pray least that day come vpon vs vnawares and finde vs vnprouided Consider at that day what a Iudge we shal see afrowning Iudge he that damned the poore seruant Mat. 25.28 for hiding his Talent and bringing him onely his owne without inerest Hee that damned the poore soule Mat. 22.13 for comming to the marriage feast without his wedding garment Hee that damned the fiue foolish virgins Mat. 25.12 for not coming iumpe at the houre and finall threatneth to dame all those that worke iniquite Mat. 13.41 Doe not wee reade how he cast out Adam the first man for eating an apple Drowned the old world wholly for wicked imaginations al but Noah and his family saued by a seely Arke of pine-trees Reiected Saul and cast him out of his Kingdome for sparig the Amalekites Punished Dauid a man otherwise after his owne heart with plagues and his rebellious sonne for the committed acts of adultery and murther Threw the Angels out of heauen That light as Austine thinkes which Moses speakes of in the first of Genesis Turnd Lots wife into a piller of Salt And then Qui Angelis pijs non pepercit Hee who neither sparde the Angels nor good men how shall wee wretched Sinners looke to escape It is good for vs to thinke vpon these things and to consider that Our redemption draweth nigher now then when we first beleeued Rom. 13.11 For if Paul held those the last daies wherein he liued who liued so many yeeres since euen but 37. yeares after Christs Passion and beheaded in the 14. yoeere of Nero what may we think of ours The great Papist Bellarmine affirmes that we haue not 400. to come but be it wee had 4000. to the worlds end what is that to vs The Psalmist sayth Our daeyes are but threescore yeeres and ten and if they bee of strength fourescore yeers and if so all is
Angels and equall to them Luke 20.36 and the Angels in heauen doe assuredly know one another as appeares Dan 10.13 where the Angell that appeared to Daniel told him how he was withstood by the Prince of Persiae if hee had not knowne him how could he haue distinguished him to be that Prince â—â—â—…eside if we shall know God himselfe as I haue showed you â— much more shall wee know one another thus Adam beeing cast into a sleepe knew his Wife Euah and could say This is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone When as yet hee neuer before had seene her But this hee did Spiritu sancti plenus et vera Dei cognitione praeditus Beeing full of the holy Spirite and indued with the true knowledge of God saith this Author And Greg. Dial lib. 4. saith Quia illic omnes communi claritate conspiciunt non est quod ibi nesciant vbi Scientem omnia sciunt Because that in Heauen with a common cleare brightnesse and bright clearenesse all there doe see it cannot be that they may bee nescient where they know him that knowes all 2. Amabimus wee shall loue God good things one another God that there hath crowned vs good things that there are with vs one another that there are all brethren among vs for manent haec tria now remaine these 3 Faith Hope and Loue But the chiefe of these is Loue 1. Cor. 13.13 because Faith and Hope are but in this world to crowne vs in the next and when they haue obtained their ende they leaue But Loue doth neuer leaue vs it goeth with vs to Heauen where whilest we liue wee shall loue there euer liue and there euer loue 3. Gaudebimus wee shall haue ioy without measure without compare without end without measure for it cannot bee equald without compare for it shall be infinite without ende for it shall be euerlasting 4. Laudebimus wee shall praise God without griefe without trouble without wearinesse without griefe for all reares shall bee wiped from our eyes without trouble nothing shall molest vs without wearines for no mortall accident shal comencere our bodies sith Aquinas saith They shall bee seuen times cleer er then the glorious Sunne O the glory of that happinesse thrice happy are they that are so happy that kingdome where youth shal flourish without age where life knowes none end where beauty neuer fadeth loue neuer cooleth sicknesse neuer pierceth ioy neuer ceaseth That kingdome where sorrow is neuer felt complaint neuer heard mourning neuer seene ill neuer feared That kingdome where our knowledge shall bee perfected our vnderstanding shall be polished our acquaintance increased That kingdome where our soules shall bee in felicity our bodies in eternity both soules and bodies in maiesty Oh thrise happy day when soule and body shall there meere and welcome be that appointed day which brings with it this blessed day The meditation of this day these things will teach vs many things and as Ionas gourd did comfort him chap. 4.7 so this may instruct vs. Mark. 13.37 that kept him from heat and this may shelter vs from danger It may teach vs to watch and pray sith wee know not the time of our dissolution whether our special iudgement shall be in the morning of our youth the noone-tide of our strength or the euening of our age Whether we shall be Praemoniti forewarned that we may be Praemuniti forearmd or whether we shall haue a Scarbrough warning suddenly be gone We read of a certaine watery serpent called Ephemeron that Simul oritur moritur no sooner bred but dead And Aristotle writes of certaine flies by the riuer Hippanis that they are bredde in the morning strong at noone and dead ere night These are the Emblemes of man as in a map describing our mortality Let vs then be warned for Qui non cauet pauet He feareth that takes no heed Nemo cauenda timet quimetuenda cauet whoso feareth what is to be preuented needeth not preuent what is to be feared Gregory saith Nemo in huius vitae itinere torpeat ne in Patria locum perdat quiae enim adhuc bene licet agere scimus an cras liceat ignoramus Let none goe dully in the iourney of this life least he loose his place in the heauenly country for though we know wee haue time to do well to day we know not whether we shall liue to morrow yea or nay Let vs therfore confes our sins not to man as the Papists bid vs who are Curiosum genus hominum ad cognoscendam vitanialienam desidiosum ad corrigendam suam A certain curious company of Shauelings to correct other mens liues and stothfull in mending their owne but to God Is enim nunc vidit quae fiunt postea punit eos qui paenitentiam non agunt For hee seeth what we doe now and punishes them that repent not heereafter If wee acknowledge our sinnes hee is faithful and iust to forgiue vs our sins 1. Iohn 1 9.2 It may teach vs to set a guard about our actions a watch about our lips with good Dauid least we offend with our tongue 3. It may teach vs to season all our actions with discretion least at any time wee deale rashly as Saint Peter did when he did cut off Malcus eare 4. It may teach vs obedience with Noah to prouide the Arke while the weather is calm with Ioseph it may make vs prouident in time of plenty to lay vp against a day of scarcity in the Summer of our youth against the winter of our age If Lot had aboade in Sodome in the time of burning how could hee haue scaped If we loue the world in this time of sinning how shal we be saued We see in the example of Sodome that what is offended at midnight is punished at noone day for the sunne did rise vpon Sodome that day and yet soone after came Sodomes destruction now Sodemes iudgement hath a reference to the last iudgement thus The light or Sun-rise is Gods iudgement the night or Sodomes fall is the committing of wickednesse the parallel is this whatsoeuer it committed in the night of the Sodome of this world shall be made manifest in the Sun-rise of the world to come Lastly it may comfort vs who are Gods chosen whose names are written in the booke of life to thinke that the will of our maker hath giuen all iudgement to our redeemer if our friend be our Iudge we will hope to escape the vigour of iudgement if sentence come from our Sauiour we may be assured of saluation This made Hillarion so often call to his soule Exi anima mea exi Goe out my soule goe out willingly from the prison of my bodie thou hast serued God these 70. yeares neuer feare now nor be loath to be going whose life and death when good Saint Hierome read he clapt vp his booke saying Hillarion shall be the champion whom I will follow This made Policarpus that hee would neuer by flattering nor threatning be drawne from the feruice of his Sauiour liuing he neuer did him hurt and dying he beleeued glory This made that holy man on his death-bed say Neu vitam sperno nec mortem timeo quia dominum bonum babeo I neither loath my life nor dread my death because I haue so good a maisten This made Paul desire to be dissolued and to bee with Christ which is best of all This makes the godly in the booke of the Reuelation crie so earnestly Veni domine Iesu venicito Come Lord Iesu come quickly Euen so Amen and let Amen say Amen Come Lord Iesu to make an end of a wicked miserable vnconscionable vncharitable word Come Lord Iesu to seale vp the kingdome of grace which maketh thy Saints stay so long and with long weary waiting crie Qamdiu domine How long Lord iust and true Come Lord Iesu to hasten thy Kingdome of glory that we may the sooner meet the King of glory and be carried among the Angels into the place of glory there to enioy the crowne of glory with all the companie of heauen to sing glory to God on high Al which he that made vs for his Sonnes sake grant vs euen Christ the righteous to whom with the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be ascribed all praise power maiestie and dominion throughout all ages now and euermore Amen FINIS