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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

But I imagine how they further ioyne together in petition and say Lord seeing we are cast out of thy presence and accursed yet giue vs some resting place to this he answereth into the fire Yet Lord say they let vs speak once more though we are to 1. Depart 2. Cursed 3. Into fire and all these thinges come vppon vs yet Quousque Domine how long shall these punishments be vpon vs Truely this their end shall bee without end the worme dyeth not and the fire neuer goeth out all the waters of the South cannot quench this fire therefore the nature of this fire is set downe in the soote of the sentence euerlasting fire Yet it were some refection like the droppe of water the Purple Glution called for to coole his flaming tongue that they might haue anye companion to comforte them but they shall haue no better friendes then the Fiendes the black Guard of Deuils their tormentors shall associate them and this is the binding and winding vp of all in these wordes prepared for the Deuill and his Angells Yet further to worke vppon these wordes that they may better worke in our soules wee will diue more deepely into euerie circumstance But to the vnfolding of these misteries to the full we had néede of a damned Doctor out of another world that might speake with a feeling to giue vs more feeling such a one as the Glutton entreated of Abraham might be sent out of Hell to forewarne his Bretheren For albeit the scripture is Schoolemaster sufficient as Abraham tolde Diues saying They haue Moses and the Prophets Yet no Preacher is more pleasing to those that are towards hell then one that commeth from hell according to this surioynder of that damned Epicure Nay father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they will amend their liues How is it possible that a peece of Timber that taketh vp the roome of a whole house should be drawne out of the little wicket and Portall doore of that house Heere are so manie circumstances of wonder in this Iudiciall sentence which so fill all our sences and amaze them as out of the narrow doores of any mans ●●pes they cannot in their full bignesse bee deliuered vnto you For heere the discension 2. Malediction 3. Exustion and 4. their eternall duration are to be spoken of vnto which the damned shall be deliuered vp Oh departure Cursse fire eternall fire formidable to heare but intollerable to indure We will take them as they come to the hand and as the hande of the Scripture layeth them out The first word Depart striketh the hearers dead It is a plague of all plagues and the verie bottome of the ●ioll of gods wrath to be driuen from God Ca●n tooke this inflicted punishmēt so heauily as he thought nothing could be added more vnto it wherefore he said to God Behold thou hast cast me out this day from the earth and from thy face shall I bee hid and shall be a vagabond and runnagate in the earth whose euer findeth me shall slay me that is to say death the vpshot of miserie shall come vpon me Absalon of the two thought it the best choice rather to die then to bee in that disgrace with his Father as not to see his face and so hee tolde Ioab plainelye saying Let mee see the Kinges face and if there bee anye trespasse in mee let him kill mee As in the presence of God as saith the royall Prophet Is the fulnesse of ioy and at his right hand are aboundance of pleasures for euer more So when anye depart from God or God departeth from him all misfortnne and miserie doth fall vpon him If a King keepeth Court in a Countrye Towne all the Countrye is intitched by his comming and empourished againe by his departure So when God is among vs wee are rich and wealthye men and when hée leaueth vs a poore and woefull estate s●ndeth vs. The more the Sunne is with vs there is more plentie among vs and with the absence thereof is pe●●urye therefore the Summer season is the fruitefull season ●euen the Sunne is of moste power and the winter time is the ●●ren and deade time when the Sunne is weakest The more 〈◊〉 Sunne-shine of Gods presence is vppon vs the more fruitfull we are in euerie good worke but when this decayeth all decayeth with it What a hard thing therefore it is for anye to departe from the liuing God from his sweete Sauiour Christ who is the life hope sollace saluation the beginning and end of all thinges in whome are all things But thou for a short sinfull pleasure bringest this horrible euill vpon thee and makest thy selfe an aliant from the Israel of God a stranger and bannished man from the heauenly Hierusalem If the Apostles for that little while that Ch●ist tolde them hée was to bee absent from them they were●o sadde and sorrowful as expouading vnto them these vis wordes A little while and ye shall not see mee and againe A little while and yee shall see me he saide ye shall weepe and lament and measureth their mourning by the mourning of a woman in her trauell In what case shalt thou be thou accursed sinner when not for a white but for all eternitie thou shalt bee sh●t from the sight of God If Peter to whome Christ said If I wash thee not thou shalt haue no part with me was so loath to part with Christ as he saide Lord not my feet onely but also the hāds the head How shall it be with the wicked who shall bee put away from God without hope of seeing his sweete face any more The name of Father in the entrie of the sentence read ouer the godlye omitted in the tenor of Iudgement against the wicked hath good consideration For in the saying to the Godlie Come ye blessed of my Father and absolutely saying to the damned Goe ye curssed It is to insinuate that the blessing of happinesse is his fatherly goodnes and not of mans worthinesse that eternall life is of the father of lightes Of the other side that damnation is not of the Father but of our follie according to this sentence of Oseas Thy destruction O Israel is of thy selfe but thy saluation is of me That the Godly are saued it is of grace that the wicked perrish it is of ●●nne Let no man therefore commence complaint against God that hee is cruell for hee carrieth that which condemneth him about him as naturally sinfull God is the author of all that is good it procee●eth from our corrupt natures whatsoeuer is euill In diuiding this truth aright in this sorte we shall walke with an euen foole neyther giuing to our selues that which is Gods or to God that which is onely ours N●ither is the learning of Gods predestination laide down by 〈◊〉 which te●cheth that God in his free and righteous counsell e●e●●een some

as but the lower parts thereof were corrupted by the waters That of the Reuelation preiudiceth not the point For there seemeth rather a new heauen and newe earth to be destroyed then a dissolution of the other to be insinuated Also in Isaiah it is said That the Moone shall haue the light of the Sun and that the Sunne shall yeeld seuen fold more light then it doth now The Schoolemen applie all inferences in this case to the qualities and not to the substance of the world for the nature of the world shall not so be turmosted as it shall bee brought to nothing but it shall be rescued and redeemed from the hands of var●tie vnto which it was subiect For the world being sentensed to this iudgement for the sinne of man not of it selfe sinning against God after that sinne is out of place the world must recouer his former dignitie when the time appointed is accomplished especially the lower bodies which are in the subl●●arie worlde for those be most obiect and subiect to corruption The master of the Sentences in effect deliuereth thus much But hee borroweth that which hee hath herein from Austine who saith That by a worldly combustion the qualities of the corruptible elements which had some cognation and correspondencie with our corruptible bodies shall vtterly burne and perish and that the substance shall put on those qualities by a miraculous exchange which shal be agreeable with the cōdition of immortal bodies that the world being altred to the better may bee fitting to the persons also in their bodies altred to the better In the 14. Chapter of the forenamed booke this is his verdit This world shall passe away by a mutation not finall subuersion And he alledgeth for himselfe the fore-cited saying of Paul The fashion of this world passeth away The figure saith he not the nature is spoken of by the Apostle else where he likewise saith we are not to beléeue that the Elements that is to say that heauen and earth are to be produced to ashes but that their propertie shall be bettered The scriptures no where shew the dissolution of the worlds substance Also the bodies of the Saints must be in a place but what place shall they haue if they haue not a place in the worlde Moreouer man for whose sinne all woe came vpon the world shall not vtterly be destroyed but shall be renued in bodie and inuested with immortalitie either to his endlesse felicitie or miserie wherefore the worlds composition that was not in the transgression shall much lesse comein substance to this vtter confusion But this being a point more doubtfull then profitable we leaue it arbitrable what shall be the ende of the world we shall best know in the end of the world Thus hauing insisted as much as neede requireth in the two propounded points of this Chapter we will giue the vse the life of the whole and so conclude the same Whereas the fire is to consume this worlde as stubble as the former world was licked vp by water wee see how euery thing howsoeuer simplie of it owne nature appertaineth moste to the necessarie vse of man hath a most hurtfull effect against man when God will take it vp as a rod in his hand either for the correction or destruction of man The fire the water the soile the aire are the Elements that are aliments vnto vs in their propertie and kinde whereby we liue moue and haue our being but when God otherwise disposeth of them and purposeth the diuersion of their nature they are posting Purseuants of the wrath of God to execute his iudgements to the ouerthrow of our liues Wherefore the fire went out from Gods presence to burne vp Sodom and her Cities The water the Beesom of his fierce anger drowned reseruing onely eight persons y● whole world of the vngodly The earth whereupon euery one treadeth opened and distended her mouth like hell and swallowed vp Dathan and coneted the congregation of Abiram Manna the daintie restauration of the Israelites burst out of their noses and sauoured abhominably as a most iust iudgement against their palpable and damnable vngratefulnesse The sonnes of the Prophets by a sower hearbe in their pottage had almost perlshed The winde a Meteor by which we liue being the spirit of life and as it were a fanne in the hand of God for the clarifying the ayre that it should not putrifie an the Lungs in stead of Bellowes are giuen to the heart to qualifie the excessiue heare of the heart driued Ionas into the depth of the sea Againe whereas the world is to be wasted with fire and euerie mans worke is to be reuealed by sire let vs labour to plant golde siluer precious stones which the fire will make brighter and roote vp and remoue woodde ●ay stubble which cannot continue against the force of the fire When the Lord Iesus shall shew himselfe from Heauen with his mightie Angels in flaming fire rendering vengeance vnto them that doe not know God c. Lastly this argueth the worldes follie that laboureth to labour and carketh to care neuer taking out his Quietus est for those things that are reserued vnto fi●e which draweth manie through their wicked practises thereabout into the horrible fire that we shall ●ntreate of afterward The third Chapter Of the vncertaine and vnknowne time of the worlds end HAuing fore shewed the maner of the worlds dissolution which we rather call an immutation then corruption and a translation from a w●rser to a better condition like as when we of children become men of men old men we are not destroyed but changed in nature the fire not consuming the world but restoring it as the fire consumeth not the gold but refineth it by the methode of the place it would bee considered concerning the time of the duration thereof what is to bee determined wherein wee will desire to knowe no more then the Scriptures haue reuealed From whence we haue no certaintie but rather the vncertaintie is euerie where spoken of As where Christ saith Of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels of heauē but my father only In Mark he excepteth against himselfe to leaue the high knowledge thereof onely to his father Neither the sonne himselfe saue the father Which is to be vnderstoode of his humanitie which naturally and ordinarily knoweth nothing ●erein but as it is taught by a better schoolmaster namely his Diuinitie When the Apostles put forth the question to Christ Lord wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome to Israel Their answere was that the knowledge thereof was to deepe misterie for them It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father hath put in h●s owne power It is Christs watchword to the world Ye know not what houre your mu●●er will come Ye know not the day nor the houre when the sonne of man will