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A07289	Saint Peters watch word the end of all things is at hand / digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister ; perused and allowed.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1561?	1603 (1603)	STC 17683A; ESTC S450	71,286	178

true repentance in the bloud of lesus Christ in one word that none be partakers of her sinne least also they are partakers of her punishment which in one day that is suddenly and speedily shall come vpon her Reu. 18.8 For strong is the the Lord God that shall Iudge her And so much also for the destruction of Antichrist his kingdome which how soone it shall come he onely knoweth which knoweth al things And this I hope also may suffice to be spoken in this Chapter touching certaine signes and tokens foretold in the Scripture to goe before the end of the world whereof as I haue said many are passed and some of them may be yet to come God make vs thankfull for these so gratious forewarnings and giue vs also grace wisely to consider of the ceasons And to the ende that nothing may be omited as farre as my slender habilitie is able to reach which may any way edifie or comfort the simpler sort let it be further obserued in this place that as it is on the one side too much curiositie for any mortall man to determine or paint out the time or day of iudgement when it shall be seeing it is not reuealed but rather concealed by God him selfe for our good so on the other side it is too much sencelesnes want of Christian discretion nor to consider so much of this day or time as may either bring profite or comfort vnto vs. Yea probable coniectures how long the world may endure to sober and godly mindes I suppose cannot be hurtfull so that they be soberly auerred only as Christian coniectures and not for any certaine or sound conclusions Such are these as godly sober minded men haue not refused to speake and write as that it is probable the world shall not continue aboue sixe thousand yeares agreeable to the sixe daies of the Creation and the seauenth to be the great glorious Saboath or day of eternall rest vnto all Gods children and the rather is this coniecture receaued for that the Scripture vseth this phrase or speech more then once That one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeere and a thousand yeere as one day And the prophefie of Elias which the Rabbens haue reported and those of Sibile the prophetisse knowen to each scholler do not a little confirme that coniecture adde hereunto that if times and seasons be well compared together we shall finde that from the beginning of the world vnto the calling of Abraham are neare about two thousand yeares from that time till the Hebrewes which came of Eber a great Grandfather of Abraham were subdued by the Romanes are also neare or thereabout two thousand yeares sithence that time the world hath continued almost one thousand and sixe hundred yeares so to equall the yeeres of the Iewes with the Gentiles there wanteth but a three or foure hundred yeares which with God is but as a fewe houres if with God a thousand yeeres are but as one day and who knoweth how soone these houres may runne out seeing as many expound that place For the elects sake these daies shall be shortned But among all coniectures 〈◊〉 13. ●0 for I count them but coniectures this pleaseth me best and hath most often come into my minde since God gaue me a minde to thinke sereously on this day namely that this last age shall not exceede in number the yeeres of the first age of the world now the first age of the world by Computation from the Creation to Noaths floud were yeeres one thousand sixe hundred fiftie and sixe and the last age sithence the comming of Christ in the flesh which is euery where called in the Scriptures the last age is as we all knowe and confesse past the yeeres one thousand sixe hundred therefore I perswade my selfe Christ his comming vnto Iudgement is euen at hand This coniecture also pleaseth me the better for that this speech is so often vsed by our Sauiour himselfe when he putteth vs in minde of his second comming Luke 17.26 As it was saith he in the daies of Noath so shall it be at the comming of the Sonne of man And seeing now to our own experience it falleth out so true in the manners of men in this last age of the world as it did in the ending of the first age why may it not also fall out as true in the accomplishment of the times How beit as I said before so say I still for as much as all these or any other of the like sort are but coniectures and ought onely to be vsed and considered not to hinder any ordinary proceeding in our callings but onely to call vpon vs that our Master is not onely comming but that his comming is euen at hand Let this therefore be a conclusion of this point and likewise of this Chapter that the day of Iudgement whereof all this while we haue spoken be not before to morrow yet the time of our own death and so of our particular Iudgements may be before this day be ended Therefore let euery one haue a care how he liueth for looke in what case he dyeth so shall his iudgement be Where the tree falleth there it must lie And so much touching the signes which shew vnto vs that Christ Iesus is euen ready to come vnto iudgement who onely himselfe shal be the Iudge whereof we are to intreate in the Chapter following The fift Chapter AS it is an Article of our faith to beleeue that there shall be a general Iudgement following the resurrection of the dead so it is not the least point in that Article to be wel noted and considered both for the comfort of the Godly and terror of the wicked who he is that is appointed to be this supreame Iudge The Article it selfe saith He shall come againe to ●udge the quicke and the dead that is Iesus Christ the onely Sonne of God and our ●ord as wee confesse in the Creed The ●●me Iesus that was conceaued in the ●ombe of a Virgine by the Almightie ower of the holy Ghost The same Iesus that was made Man for and dwelt among vs he whom the ●orld hated and persecuted from the ●●adle to his graue hee that was most ●●●acherously betrayed most falsely ac●●sed and most vniustly by Pontius Pilate ●●●demned to that most 〈…〉 full death of the Crosse the same Iesus Christ I say the Sonne of God and man who then died for our sinnes rose againe for our Iustification Who shall be Iudge at the last day and ascended into the highest heauens shall most assuredly and vndoubtedly come againe at the last day to iudge the quicke the dead that is all those that haue dyed sithence the beginning of the world together with all those that shall be liuing vpon the earth at the time of his comming This Article is confirmed vnto vs byinfinite places of Scriptures whereof we may note a fewe for examples sake First no

say they many hundred yeres gone that some haue spoken and written of the ende of the world and they that then spake or wrote of it made shew as though it had beene euen at hande but now wee plainly see there is no such matter they are meere deceiuers that haue told vs these things For euery thing continueth a little from the beginning of the creation and since our fathers died the Sunne Moone and planets in the Firmament the trees and Plants in the field men and beasts vpon the earth fishes in the water foules flying in the skies the sea ebbing flowing times and seasons continuing colde and heat Summer and Winter seedtime and haruest euerie thing as it was from the beginning of the creation therefore we will set our hearts at rest we will take our pleasures in this worlde Preaching to thē that perish foolish babling we will not beleeue the babbling of preachers that crie vpon vs stil of the end of the world we will eate and drinke and rise vp to play we wil quaffe carrowse lustily we wil drinke healths vntill we be sicke ●aggering ●earers we wil swagger sweare by the eternall Iesus and will leaue no sinne vmought for no not the sinne of S●dome But stay there thon swaggerer by saying as thou sayest and doing as thou doest the prophesies both of Peter Paule are accomplished and the godly more assured then euer before that the end of all things is at hand Saint Paule he plainely painteth out these persons and pointeth out the time when they should come ● Tim. 3.7 saying This know that in the last daies that is in the latter times of this last age shall come perillous times for men shall be louers of their own selues couetous boasters proude cursed speakers disobedient to parents vnthankefull vnholy without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers These ma●ers agree with our ●imes intemperat fierce no louers at al of them that are good traytors headie high minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a shew of godlinesse but haue denied the power thereof Saint Peter more precisely noteth these Atheists of whom we speake saying ● Pet. 3.3 this first vnderstand that there shall come in the last dayes mockers which will walke after their lusts and say where is the promise of his comming for sinc the fathers died all things continued alike from the beginning of the creation Now seeing all these things fore-spoken of both by Peter and Paul are in our dayes most truly accomplished wee may thereupon certainly conclude with saint Peter that The end of al things is at hand Yea verie neere at hand and may therefore boldly say with saint Paule the end euen the last ende of the world are come vpon vs But before wee ende this poynt wee must note the aunswere of saint Peter to these Atheists Saint Pe● answere Atheists that measure the infinitenesse of Gods eternitie with their onely conceyt of time which time if it bee any thing it is the least of all thinges with God Therfore saint Peter saith borroweth it out of the Psalmist Psal 90. that one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day which is a full answere to this their question Where is the promise of his comming Now doth God promise and not performe God forbid God alw●● as goo● his wo●● But say they it was promised long sithence fifteene hundred yeares gone that Christ would come verie shortly vnto iudgement and yet to this day hee is not come nay to our seeming hee is as farre of now as he was then therefore it is most likely hee will not come at all Saint Peter though he were no sophister presently findeth out this fallacie and shewes whence they deceiue themselues namely because they thinke that time passeth away as fast with God as it doth with man which is nothing so a thousand yeares with man is a long time with God but as one day why then was it promised fifteene hundred yeares gone that the worlde should shortly haue an ende All that time is with God but as one day and ahalfe day stay but one halfe day more and thou shalt be sure to see the accomplishment thereof So then they which iudge or weigh Gods euerlasting eternitie in the ballance of their temporall vanitie shewe plainly that they know not what eternitie and euerlastingnesse is ●ongtime ●●th man ●●asured Gods ●●●itie is ●●y shor● for in eternity there is neither length nor shortnesse of time with God there is no time past neither any to come all things are with God in the present tense or time and in eternitie there is neither length nor shortnes of time Only of this fond conceit that Gods euerlasting prouidence is subiect to casualtie of time hath sprūg these grosse errors and hath caused the curiositie of man to moue these and such like questions of vanitie Curious question● as how cōmeth it to passe that God forbore so long time before hee made this worlde what did God before hee made this worlde and the like To which latter question one answereth verie pithely that afore God made this worlde for man to liue in hee made hell for such curious questionists to dwel in after this world is ended Againe they that demaund why God forbore so long time before hee made this world might as wel aske why it plea sed God to make this world or any time at all And the terming of any time long is in respect of the continuance of time to them onely that liue in time and not in respect of God that made time Put the cause that the world had lasted one hundred thousand yeares or if yee will ten hundred thousand yeares what shall ye gaine by that you will then say that the world had beene of the greater antiquitie but I demaund in respect of whō of God or of thy selfe of eternitie or of time truly onely in respect of thy selfe and of time but not in respect of God or of eternitie one hundred thousande thousand yeares past with God is nothing and ten hundred thousand thousand years to come with God is nothing in respect of eternitie or euerlastingnesse and these distinctions of time and place were created and brought forth togither at one instant with the worlde so as they be neither without it nor before it ●●e that is 〈◊〉 thout ●●●e made ●●e he that is without time without place made both time and place and if he had beene subiect to time place as thou Atheist imaginest he could not haue made either time or place So then be fatisfied with this replie of the Apostle a thousand yeares with God is as one day one day as a thousand years Neuer demaunde this question more Where is the promise of Christs cōming for comming he will come ●●b 10.37 and will not tary Assure