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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01451	Doomes-Day booke: or, An alarum for atheistes, a vvatchword for vvorldlinges, a caueat for Christians. By Samuel Gardnier [sic] Doctor of Diuinitie. The contentes the following page sheweth	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1606 (1606)	STC 11576; ESTC S102820	100,754	118

sufferings as the wounds of his hands féete side and other some say is the signe of the crosse But the certainest sence is to take the signe for the signification for those prodigious aspects lately named and for the worldes combus●●n which is the signe of the sonne of mans apparition by S. Peter directly named Wee will giue the vse of this large discourse and so wée will conclude it 1. First these signes serue as wholesome admoni●on to dr●we v● to a godly and holy conuersation It is the Apostle Peters application in the case who after mention made of these ●●full maner of the worldes destruction commeth in with this addition Seeing all thinges must be desolued what maner of men ought wee to be in holy conuersation and godlines The consequence is good for if all earthly creatures must be refined and ren●e● by the fire Much more should the fire of Gods spirite burne in vs which may consume the drosse of our dead workes like s●uble and perfect vs that wee may be wrought as it were in a new ●oulde after the Image of God in righteousnes and holines 2. Secondly wee are taught to gather from hence howe grieuous sinne is which is in the creatures of the worlde thus greiuously punished The leprosie of the Iewes was to all that knew it wonderfull because it not only did infect the whole man but did clea●e to his garments and to the walles of the house But the leprosie of sinne is more to be wondred at that not only polluteth the bodie and soule of man but ble●isheth staineth the worldes glorious eye euen the glorious Sunne in the firmament and subiecteth the Moone and starres vnto vanitie Wretched therefore are wée the whom the dregges of sinne are so frozen and conicalled as wée are become senceles in sinne not onely going vp to the anckles but diuing ouer head and eares in the gulfe of sin Wee endure not to looke vpon the blaines and running sore● of spitlemen but did we beholde the sores of our sinfull soules as they are in their naturall cor●uption which rancle the verie heauens manie thousand miles of from them we would haue in all loathsome detestation their most vgly and fipthie abhomination 3. The third and last consideration we take from hence is the louing kindnes of God and his vnwillingnes in punishing a sinner according to that which Isai saith God worketh a strange worke to bring his owne work to passe Dij immortales nec volunt nec possunt obesse The immortal Gods are neither willing norable to hurt saith Seneca It is his propertie alwaies to haue mercie as it is in the Antheme of the Church And iudgement is a strange work vnto him contrarie to his nature which hée executeth to make vs owners of his mercie which is his owne proper action If God tooke anie pleasure in vndoing the world and worldly men he would not come in this mouing manner to vs causing all the creatures of heauen to put on blacke garments But euen as when the maister of the house dieth saith Chrisostome all the houshould is cladde in mourning wéedes so mankind for which all the parts of the world were made to be seruants to them béeing to be done away all creatures follow their funeralles with lamentations in their kindes the orient Sunne Moone staires doe chaunge colour and are in blacke array A Painter is very loath to marre the whole proportion of the picture for some defection and imperfection that is in it so God is very loath to vndoe al his workmanship in vs for some sinnes and transgressions that are in vs. Many Iudges of Assise are so pittifull as albeit they are to venounce the doome of death against prisoners at the barre as they weepe when they deliuer it so God doth with vs béeing sentenced for our vnrepentant sinnes vnto death So he wept when hée ●rowned the first world so he wept for the destruction of Hierusalem and this affection hée sheweth in this habite of heauenlie creatures which they do on at the worlds dissolution There is many a hangman who though he be neuer so butcherly bent will bemoane the estate of his freind especialli● his kinsman whose hand or eare he is to cut off Therefore God that loueth vs more then the father can the childe or the husband the wife cannot but be resolued into passions for our condemnation This doctrine you haue often heard but yée do but litle heede it happily because yee doe not beleeue it is so at hand But these signes hitherto spoken of maketh it out of doubt The king doth purpose to remooue from one Court to another and when report goeth of it many doubt of it because the prince many times doth delay the time but when the furniture of the Court is taken downe then euery one knoweth that he remoueth out of hand so it hath béene often preached in your eares that the end of the world is at hand that Christ is comming to iudge it and ye arraigne God of slacknes but the remoual of this the worldes furniture this bu●●e dooing which is not in hand flatly sheweth that these thinges are at hand The fift Chapter Of the certaintie of our resurrection THe resurrection of all flesh immediatly with the worlds consummation commeth in place So saith Christ I will raise him vp at the last day The like saith Martha no doubt immitated in the schoole of Christ touching hir brother Lazarus I know that he shal rise again in the resurrection at the last day Wherfore we are to deale with this article in this place There is a double resurrection 1. The one of our bodies 2 The other of our soules Of our soules when we rise from sinne Of our bodies we rise from our sepulchers That of our soules is called the first resurrection The other of our bodies is called the second A double death answereth this double resurrection 1. The first death which is of the vnrepentant soule 2. The second which is euerlasting death the condition of the damned We learne of the Scriptures thus to distinguish of the resurrection For the first and second resurrection The first and second death are mentioned in holy scriptures As by Iohn in the Reuellation Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection For on such the second death hath no power But they shall be the Priests of God and of Christ and shall raigne with him a thousand yeeres Where Iohn by the first resurrection vnderstandeth the resurrection of the minde from sinne to repentance In the Gospell of Iohn both these resurrections are spoken of together The houre shall come and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the sonne of God These wordes belong to the first resurrection and that doth the course of them declare in that hée saith The hower shall come and nowe is For no man will say