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A15859	Speculum Christianum or, A Christian suruey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, graue, and learned diuine, maister Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseuerance of the saints. 3. A summarie abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.; Speculum Christianum. English	Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.; Nelson, Henry, fl. 1614.	1614 (1614)	STC 26121A.7; ESTC S111786	125,039	404

That indeede by the sight thereof wee might know the Lord not to be farre off but quickly to returne yet so as that wee may neuer define how far off this quickly shall be The third perill is this lest that because the good seruant must remember that it may so fall out that his Maister may come quickly hee should rashly define how long or how short time that quickly will be and should appoint any certaine time when his Lord will come For that determination of a certain time besides that it is presumptuous it is likewise repugnant to the will of God and pernicious Against this rock the Lord will haue vs to acknowledge and confesse that wee cannot know this time and that it is onely knowne to God Againe hee would haue vs know that it is not our office either to search out or to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his owne power Hereunto also appertaine the signes that is to say That when we shall see many of them to bee originally accomplished from the time of the Apostles neither yet presently the Lord to bee come that 〈◊〉 yet wee presume to define though we see the rest of any certaine time of his comming but that we should know that this onely is seene to the Lord and therefore for that wee are ignorant when he will come we should alwaies watch and pray Wherfore the Lord saith Matthew 24. If the housholder knew at what houre the theefe would come he would doubtlesse wa●ch and not suffer his house to be digged through as though he should say he would doubtlesse watch that houre onely wherein he knew the thiefe would come but for that he knoweth hee will come and is ignorant in what houre therfore hee awaketh the whole night and standeth vpon his watch be yie also therefor● prepared that is alwaies for at an houre when yet thinke not will the sonne of man come as if he had said If yee know that certaine time wherin he would returne yee would watch onely about that time and addresse your selues to meete me but for that yee are ignorant when I shall come at midnight or cock-crow or in the morning and yet yee know certainly that I wil come therefore yee ought continually to bee prepared and in readinesse These therefore are the three principall vses of the tokens foregoing the end of the world and the comming of the Lord first that by seeing of them we may firmely know that the Lord wil come next that by the sight thereof wee may know that hee will come quickly thirdly that by seeing of them wee doe not yet determine how long this quickly shall endure for that many of them are come to passe and yet the Lord commeth not Besides no signes doe bend that way that by them we may be enabled to define the certaine time of his comming and of the end of the world Therefore the Lord did first prognosticate the signes Matthew 24. and then le●t any man should yet thinke that hee could gather how much space of time remained touching the Lords comming he added Of that day knoweth no man We see therefore that this sequele hath no coherence The signes are fore-told that doe fore-runne the end of the world therefore when they formerly come to passe and are accomplished we may not thence obserue how much time certainely remaineth vntill his comming for that there be other vses as is manifested already of the signes then that by them wee either can or ought to conclude the certaine time of the world But by all these wee may easily collect what a Christian man may doe in this question touching the end of the world Now then out of things allready spoken let vs discusse the duties of a Christian man to be obserued in this question of the worlds ending The sixt Capitall branch is what thinges are to bee obserued of a Christian man in this question touching the end of the world Wee must firmely beleeue that this world shall finally come to an that the Lord shall returne and that the world shall be renewed wherefore seeing there must be a renouation of the Heauen and Earth we are to giue regard that wee likewise be daily renouated as Peter teacheth 2. Pet. 3. When this end shall come wee are not curiously to inquire both for that it cannot be knowne according to the voyce of Christ Mat. 24. as also for that we are forbidden in that saying Act. 1 It appertaineth not to you to know the times c. Although we know not when hee will come yet in the meane while we are to desire his comming according to that Mat. 6. Let thy Kingdome come And this is likewise acceptable to God as the Apostle testifieth 2. Tim. 4. henceforth is laid vp for me a crowne of righteousnes which the Lord that iust iudge shall render vnto me at that day and not only to me but also to all such as shal wish for his comming Albeit wee know not when yet ought euery one continually to haue in remembrance that the Lord may sooner come then the world supposeth For this is the difference betweene the good and euill seruant Luc. 12. The euil one saith My Lord wil deferre his comming c. but the good one saith I know not verily when my Lord wil come but I do daily expect him for he wil come as hee prophesied as a thiefe in the night that is vpon the sodaine Againe albeit that I may in the interim yeeld this that he will not come speedily to iudge the whole world yet it may bee he wil come to morrow to exact of mee a priuate account of my life Because we know not when the Lord wil come we are to watch and pray perpetually and our lamps are so to bee kept furnished with faith and good workes as if he were to come to morrow according to that of Christ Mat. 24. Watch therefore and pray for you know not what houre your Lord will com● Wherefore at no hand are we to imitate that euill seruant who for that hee doth promise to himselfe that his Maister wil deferre his comming he is drunke with the drunkards and smiteth his fellow seruants Luc. 12. If we be tempted to impatience for that the day of the Lord commeth not quickly or because the Lord doth so long deferre his comming let vs follow the counsaile of the Apostle Pet. 2. Epist 3. Let vs fasten our eyes not vpon the passage of this temporary life but vpon aeternity it selfe where all time be it neuer soe long doth vanish to nothing and let vs bee advised that a thousand yeares with the Lord a●● but as one day according to that 2. Pet. 3. Moreouer bee not ignorant of this one thing beloued that one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand years as one day Let vs therfore vnderstand that this delay is nothing If further we shal be assaulted either of

poynt is whether we can attaine to know when the end of the world shall be It is a case manifest whether wee be all led with a desire to know when the end of the world shall be For this affection euen the Saintes were taken withall the Prophets and Apostles Of Daniel it is manifest in Cap. 12. After that he heard of the Angell that is of Christ touching Antichrist and what thinges should be accomplished in the end of the World hee asked the Lord saying verse 8. O Lord what shall be the ●●d of these things as for the Apostles it apeareth Mat. 24. Act. ● Lord when shal these thinges be Therefore it is a naturall inclination in all to desire the knowledge of thinges to come specially when the end of the world shall be Now the question is whether this can be knowne of vs The Lord Iesus taught that it no way can be knowne when he said Of that day that houre no man Mat. 24 knoweth no not the Angels of Heauen but the father onely knoweth that is the certaine time wherein these thinges by me foretold to you shal come to passe the father only know eth yet in all ages there haue beene some and that in the Church of Christ who haue giuen out it might be knowne some indeed certainely and they haue presumed to determine therevpon a certaine number of yeares such is mans presumption from the first vnto the second comming of Christ others probably and in such sort as that in searching this time they did contend that no great error could follow and therefore they vsed sundry coniectures whereby they assayed to determine in some fort how much time as yet remained vntill the next comming of Christ Although verily there be great difference betweene the ●●merity of the one sort and curiosity of the other yet as the one is vtterly to be disprooued and condemned so the other for my part I cannot giue approbation vnto For true p●ety requireth that we bee certaine indeed that the end of the world shall bee and that the Lord will come but when that is what either day or moneth or yeare or age both it shall be and hee shall come we must of necessity confesse ingenuously our ignorance and that by no meanes it can be knowne according to the doctrine of Christ And therefore according to the Commandement of Christ let vs watch and pray expecting daily and hourly our Lord Iesus Christ being alwayes prepared with our lampes burning with the light of faith and filled with the oyle of good workes to goe out to meet him But let vs now consider what haue beene the iudgements of men touching the time of the end of the world and the comming of the Lord. In the times of the Apostles some there were who said although the day and hower of the Lords comming could not be knowne yet that the day of the Lord and end of the world could not at that time be far off others that this was newly reuealed others said that this was the Apostles doctrine others did endeuour to perswade this by reasons and coniectures but the Apostle did surprise such saying I beseech you 2 Thes 1. euen by the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ and by our assembling to him that yee bee not suddenly mooued from your minde nor troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as it were from vs as though the day of Christ were at hand The Apostle teacheth that these Impostors vsed three practises for perswasion that the Lords day was hard at hand First Reuelations for that they certainely know this by the spirit of Reuelation Secondly reasons and coniectures therfore he saith or by w●●● Thirdly counterfet letters and restimonies of the Apostle But what saith the Apostle that yee be not suddenly moued away as though the day of the Lord were at hand for that vnlesse 〈◊〉 departure come first c. hee taught that first there must be a generall Apostasie or as others will haue it a defection of the Roman Empire and Antichrist to bee reuealed with 〈◊〉 Kingdome before the day of the Lord shall come But how long after the comming of Antichrist shall succeed the end of the world and the day of the Lord 100. 1000. or moe yeares the Apostle hath not taught but why for that neither himselfe knew according to that of that day and houre c. Beholde Ma● 24. what was bruited abroad in the Apostles ages euen amongst the beleeuers touching the end of the world And that these men were deceiued the thing it selfe teacheth After the Apostles times there were not wanting euen some who did limit a certain number of yeares vntill the second comming of Christ and end of the world Amongst the prophane Gentiles it was vulgarly bruited as a Diuine Oracle That the Christian Religion after Christ began to be honoured should continue only for the space of 365. yeeres and then presently to haue an end Saint Augustine relateth this Tom. 5. de Ciuitate Dei lib. 18 c. 53 and sheweth how false this was cap. 54. And because after the end of Christian Religion vpon the Earth forthwith an end of the world shall be therfore some Christians perswaded by this Oracle were of opinion That after these 365. yeares were expired presently the end of the world shold be But it is apparant how fouly these likewise were deceiued In Cyprians time who flourished after Christ about the yeare 250. it was credibly held that the end of the world was at hand this is cle●●e out of Cyprians Epistles And which is more in a little Treatise ad For●●natum in an exhortation to Marty●dome if it bee Cyprians in the beginning pag. 244. these words are read Six thousand yeares are 〈◊〉 compleat since the Diuell did impugne man Although the book be not Cyprians yet is it plaine what was the opinion held in the Church with many touching the end of the World at what time this booke was published that is to say That then were 6000. yeares begun to bee accomplished and so consequently the end of the world instantly to draw neere But how fouly they also erred the thing it selfe declareth In Lactantius his time who was famous about the yeere after the birth of Christ 317. what opinion was maintained in the Church 〈◊〉 euident by his Institutions lib. 7. cap. 25. The whole expectation saith he s●●l of the end of the World seemeth not aboue the space of 200. yeares In the time of Augustine Hierome and such others that many were of opinion the end to be hard at hand appeareth by Aug. his bookes To. 5. de ciuit D●● lib. 18. c. 53. he reporteth some to haue determined from the Ascension of the Lord vnto the end of the world 400. yeares others 500. others 1000. But Augustine doth de●ide them all and refutes them by the saying of the Lord Christ Act. ● It is not yours to know the seasons which

side saith Onely the Elect doe truly beleeue in Christ the reprobate beleeue but it is for a time and therefore not truely and their faith because it is temporarie neither to be true faith nor to iustifie or make the sonnes of God Idem in Iohn 2. sect 3 vpon these words but Iesus did not commit him-selfe vnto them first teacheth that those who in that place are said to haue beleeued in Christ were temporizers then of temporizers Those saith he were such which beleeue in the name of Christ yet he did not commit himselfe vnto them for he knew what was in man for hee knew them to haue nothing lesse then a true and sound faith in it felfe Thus he Therfore temporary faith is not true and soundfaith Idem in lib dereconcilia Eccles incontrouers de iustif in the significatitions of this word credere to beleeue first hee concludeth that it is wrought in vs by inspiration of the Holy Spirit that wee doe beleeue Then that this inspiration doth happen diuerse waies first sometime in such manner as that wee beleeue some part of the word of God but not all againe sometime such as that wee doe beleeue all but not alwaies but for a certaine time And hee teacheth neither of these to be the inspiration of a true faith fol. 138 128. 139. But the other inspirations of true faith which he there reciteth and explaineth hee conioyneth them all with perpetuitie and therefore teacheth That it is no true faith vnlesse it bee perpetuall And fol. 139. expressely hee saith That Faith not true which the Lord calleth temporary is called by Paul ●aigned and by Iames dead faith and that this is not of the same ranke with a liuely and true faith which doth in veritie apprehend the life of GOD in Christ By which words Bucer teacheth that faith which is temporarie to bee hypocriticall and dead that is neither liuing nor true faith Therefore true Faith must bee perpetuall Idem in Eph. c. 1. vpon these words yee are sealed by the holy Spirit of promise he calleth temporarie faith a picture of faith againe dissembled credulitie and saith it is called of Iames dead faith and therefore not to bee true faith As likewise a dead man is not a true man for that by this addition scili●●● of dead it destroyeth the nature of faith as also when wee say a dead man by this addition of dead is extinct the nature of man But saith hee Paul speaketh not of the image of faith but of true faith when he speaketh of a sauing faith and which proceedeth from the Holy Spirit For although that image of faith doth sometime strongly grow on so that it doth pa● forth fruit yet the Sun arising at last those fruits are extinguished as doth appeare in them who seeke carnall libertie by the Gospell and doe neuer make consideration of the Crosse which is there taught this faith is hypocriticall credulitie Iames calleth it dead faith which condition being added destroyeth the nature of faith as when wee say a dead man by that addition the nature of man is done away These things Bucer Therefore if faith be not perpetuall it cannot be true and liuing faith Idem in ep ad Eph. ● 4. Tract d● Eccles in the entrance fol. 111. ●ee putteth downe a three-fold faith first iustifying and therefore true and perpetuall faith then faith vtterly dead thirdly the meane betweene both this temporary faith And hee doth demonstrate these two last not to be a true saith neither men thereby to be iustified Although saith hee there be some to be found who place a certain 〈◊〉 faith between that which iustifieth which worketh by Loue and is expressely called a liuing faith and that which is vtterly dead that is not working any good And indeed there is a certaine temporarie faith noted by Christ which although it doth not endure and profit so farre to fructifie yet it putteth forth into bud This faith is an assent vnto the Gospell which i● therefore inspired euen into reprobate men that they in some sort should glorifie God in their words and deedes and should commend him to the prayers of the Saints and withall be stripped naked of all excuse of ignorance Such was the faith of Cain for hee also offered sacrifice of Saul A●hab Iudas the T●aitor and of all others who are so far illuminated of God that in some sort and for some time they embrace and tast of the sacred word of God with ioy and are made partakers of the heauenly gifts and the holy Spirit and yet by relapse they fall into impietie and therein perish in obstinacie Notwithstanding whatsoeuer life or worke is seene in their faith yet these men remaine endued with a temporarie gift and a lame faith so long as they want a iustifying faith without Christ therefore are they in death and vnder Gods wrath and al those motions of faith in them of what qualitie soeuer and benefits in apparance are indeed the good works of the good God as whereby also hee is beneficiall vnto mankinde by euill men to the amplifying of 〈◊〉 glorie in his infinite bountifulnesse● but to those men they are euil works and sinnes who doe them yet of an impious minde because they proceede wickedly reiecting the blood of Iesus Christ and iustification by him offered Yet hence is the difference betweene them who through this faith though but vanishing and not regenerating doe confesse the Lord Christ in word and doe not apparantly deny him in deede and them who howsoeuer they say that they beleeue in word yet in deede doe trample vnder foote the Lord Christ and hold his bloud as prophane for that the one sort are tolerated 〈◊〉 the externe fellowship of the Saints vntill they doe plainely discouer their impietie but not the other for that they make themselues manifest in their impietie Yet neither sort are true members at any time of the bodie of Christ for that they liue not in Christ In these wordes of Bucer amongst other things it is manifest first That if saith be temporary it is not true and iustifying therefore true and iustifying faith is perpetuall secondly That Saul and Iudas had neuer true and iustifying faith for that their faith was but temporarie Therfore that is false which one taught and committed to writing That Saul Iudas were iustified as wel as Dauid and Peter thirdly That neither temporizers nor notoriouslie wicked euer were true members of the Church and therfore the Elect onely and such as are endued with true faith are the true members of the Church Musculus in Ioh. cap. 8. pag. 62. vpon these words if ye abide in 〈…〉 then are yee verily my Disciples saith he He ioyneth soliditie and stabilitie with veritie That which is true is solid that which is false is vaine and fained and so cannot be stable specially if it come liable to examination That which is gold remaineth gold that which seemeth and is not