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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86503	Plain dealing or the cause and cure of the present evils of the times. Wherein you have set forth, 1 The dreadful decension of the Devill. 2 His direfull wrath. 3 The woeful woe to the wicked world. 4 The mystery of all. 5 The history and computation of times devolving all upon this age, and downward. 6 The art of resisting temptations, in this house of temptation. In a sermon before John Kendrick Lord Mayor of London, upon the Lords day after the great eclipse (as the astrologers would have had it.) Upon occasion whereof, something was spoken touching astrology: By Dr. Nath. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2572; Thomason E1315_1; ESTC R209201	39,652	125

the Revelation that all those should be and saw all save the last come to passe hath ever since beene wroth opposing all he could upon all opportunities mans welfare as we heard afore But now the time being neare that the last also must be fulfilled man must be restored to his Adam-ship his pristine perfection and originall happinesse in a larger and better Paradise on Earth and in Heaven as may bee seene in another Treatise SATAN hath saith that twelfth of Revel 12. great wrath and the rather because the time is short ere it be done and so his time is short to bestirre him to endeavour it bee undone So his anger is now doubled First That man through Christ must bee compleatly happy Secondly That he hath so little time to hinder it ere he himselfe bee compleat in Torment his sinne being the sinne not of Atheisme the Devill is no Atheist Jam. 2.19 But of the sinne against the Holy Ghost malicing Gods goodnesse Christs Mediatorship the truth of the Word and the salvation of man of which hee hath been fully convinced and by him partly confessed in the Gospel touching their truth and excellency and hinted in that 12. of Revel 12. That HE KNEW his time was short and therefore knew the rest why wherein it was short I say fully convinced by the Holy Ghost in the Word though the Holy Ghost in its effects was never in him savingly infused or inherent even as it was not in those men that sinned that sin Mat. 12.24 to 33. CHAP. III. BUt why may some ask seeing Satan is so maliciously wroth as hath beene said would God permit him to come downe among the Inhabitants of the world and especially NOW towards the approaching of the great restitution of all things as hath been shewed 1. He doth it in justice upon wicked men whether open or hypocrites even as he did upon Ahab and Saul and that with a double justice one on the soule the other on the body also That as they loved not the truth in the mouthes of the truth were therefore justly left to bee seduced in soule by Satan and their persons to goe and to be slaine in warre because they would not receive warning by that truth so the Lord in justice deales with the wicked of the world in this interval of Satans coming downe upon the earth Paul tels us as relating to this space of time 2 Thess 2.9 10 11 12. That that wicked one the sonne of perdition shall come after or according to the WORKING of SATAN with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved And for this cause God shall SEND them strong DELUSION that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse To which St. John addes that in Revel 16.13.14 with Chap. 19. v. 19.20 21. To compleat the Narrative of the destruction of soule and body of such wicked ones And I saw three uncleane spirits like frogs come out of the Dragon and the Beast and the false Prophet for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which goe forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battel to the great day of God Almighty And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies gathered together to make warre against him that sate on the Horse and against his Army and the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet and cast into the lake of fire c. and the remnant were slaine with the sword So that the justice of God is most righteously executed upon the said wicked both on soule and body as Pareus well coucheth the matter together in a few words on that sentence The Devil hath descended unto you saith he Nunquam quidem non grassatus est in mundo Satan c. i.e. There was never a time indeed wherein the Devil did not assault rob and spoyle the world being once thrust downe from Heaven But this commination is Propheticall concerning his imminent machinations with which sometime after hee should bring to destruction all the inhabitants of the world that had beene by Antichrist made mad with superstition Which words will comprehend the state of the said time if we take the word Antichrist as signifying all against Christ and Superstition to signifie all that is not according to the pure truth of the Word For our times the Interpreter of that Rev. 12.12 shews that great and various are the horrid defections Apostasies and Abominations that should bee the dreadfull effects of the Devils coming downe all that time 2 God permits Satan to come downe out of mercy you will wonder to the Godly For the beginning of the Verse doth sufficiently testifie that the Lord in his direfull providence to the earth of the ungodly had not the least intent to prejudice the Heaven of the Church of true Saints for it is expresse Rejoyce yee Heavens and yee that dwell therein which cannot bee meant of the Empyrean Heaven above the starres for the rest of the Song or Anthem of praise in two former verses is NOW is come SALVATION and strength and the Kingdome of our GOD and the POWER of his CHRIST and the Saints overcame the Devill by the BLOOD of the LAMBE and by the WORD Where it is manifest that Christ at this time hath a Power or Kingdome on Earth The mercy of God to the Saints on Earth in this unlikely looking providence is 1 The manifestation of his might power and prudence to preserve as in a Goshen his true Israelites whiles the Egyptian world round about is filled with plagues Herein his Providence exceeds his Creation that he maintaines a glory amidst hellish oppositions and keeps alive sparkes in the midst of a Sea 2. That the Saints might have their desires faith and hope c. after a blessed triall gloriously fulfilled For Satan with this his great wrath doth but pull downe the old house of the wicked world about his owne eares breaking the parts thereof all to peeces whereupon God the great Landlord removes the rubbish burnes the rotten timber and beginnes to build New Jerusalem CHAP. IV. Men must not be mistaken as if there were no such thing as the Devils coming now downe upon the earth by speciall permission THe first Coro'dary upon the Premises is that the Prophesie afore opened clearly and mainly relating to these times our first prudence can be no lesse then to perceive the performance If Satan bee now come downe then legite vestigia read his footsteps and be afraid to tread in them towards his den as the creatures were of that of the Lion giving this reason Quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum That is I dare not trach other beasts

of I know not what kinde of Spirit and of having the Spirit but are most abominably sensuall whiles they walke after their owne UNGODLY lusts But the next inquiry is to whom this Woe belongs what is meant by the Inhabitants of the earth and sea For all men good and bad inhabit there and Beasts and Fishes are not the object of Satans wrath Answ This is spoken by way of distinction from the state of mysticall Heaven the holy Church the sincere Beleevers for they are bid to rejoyce in this very same verse Rev. 12.12 Rejoyce yee Heavens and yee that DWEL in them The impieties and calamities of the earth may obliquely glance a darknesse upon some particular Comforts of the Heavenly holy ones but it hastens their generall joy and felicity When the sinnes of the Inhabitants of the earth that is of the grosser wicked openly prophane dirty Imps Earthly wretches whether named Christians or not And of the Inhabitants of the sea that is of cunningly counterfeiting hypocrites under a vizard of a kind of Religious profession and of both these whether they be the Secular men of earthly Civil imployments or are Ecclesiastical having to doe with Doctrines and Church administrations oft signified by waters as Churches like Islands are or should bee severed from the grosse world * Pareus out of Brightman hath it thus Consentit Brightmannus Incolas terrae esse quosvis improbos Christianismum ficte profitentes regui Antichristiani incolas Maris verò incolas facit Ecclesiasticos qui turbidam salsuginosam amtram doctrinam suis fucatis Christianis propinant quae quidem ad hypocrisin eos efformat sed viscera tandem Corrodit animosque perdit So Pareus And Brightman himselfe saith thus From hence may this metaphoricall signification of these words be confirmed that if earth should bee taken properly the Devill should be alike troublesome to all the Saints who dwell in common together with the wicked Besides who are the Inhabitants of the Sea but men For the D evill doth not spit out his spightfull poyson upon Whales and great Seas Good men also and bad dwell together in common in the Isles as well as in the firme land Thus then distinguish them That the Inhabitants of the earth are very wicked company either of Heathen or Christians who have onely a painted shew of Religion but the inhabitants of the sea are the Clergy-men as they call them who set abroach grosse troubled brackish and sourish doctrine to their counterfeit Christians which doth rather bring barrennesse of godlinesse to the hearers and gnaw their entrals then quench their thirst or yeeld any other good fruit The Devill being now stript of his power of hurting the true Saints should tosse these men up and downe with all manner of whirling tempests I say when these mens sinnes are ripe then Gods judgements are ripe and the ruine of them is the raising of the Church When Dagon fals before the Arke the Arke is delivered When the Amorites sinnes are full Israel is possessed of Canaan But the mean while there is a great spring of wickednesse more darknesse then light generally For the Prince of darknesse is here and casts out of his mouth much water which if it drownes not the Woman makes the wilde trees and weedy plants to fructifie amaine CHAP. II. The mystery of Satans wrathful passion now against the world and of Gods just permission of him and it SUrely after all this unfolding we cannot but perceive that the core of the cause of the cursed corruptions of the present times and of like further woe to the world for future is Satans powerfull presence by speciall permission toact great wickednesses in and upon it according to his great wrath in that short time yet remaining for him to prevaile here For why is it said he hath great wrath and why is a woe pronounced if he will not or cannot worke according to that wrath If you will have it shortlier then thus The world is now extream loose because Satan is extraordinarily let loose The Prince of the world Joh. 12.31 now in speciall rules the world of worldly men The Spirit Prince of the aire Ephes 2.2 now more powerfully poysons the spirits of men But why you will say is Satan thus angry with man and more NOW in this age and downward whiles his time lasts Surely the defection of Beelzebub in Heaven at first with his faction of Angels was because man was so farre exalted above him MAN was a body and yet having a soule as an Angelical spirit a double capacity above Angels to partake of all blisse was so formed of both into one person as that he is said to be made in the image and likenesse of God Gen. 1.27 which was never said of Angels and in the image and likenesse of God in the triplicity of modalities and dispensations of himselfe as Father sonne and Holy Ghost Let us saith God in that first of Gen. 26. make man in OUR Image after OUR Likenesse having said before God Elehim in the plurall Created Bara in the singular Gen. 1.1 and mentioning distinctly in the second and third verses c. God the Father and the Holy Ghost saying the Spirit of God moved upon the waters and God said Let there be light c. which had in the sound of words an hint of making man not onely the Sonne of God in some sense as Luke 3. last Adam is called but of making him like the onely Sonne of God as after Christ tooke the nature of Man and not of Angels Heb. 2. Angels being termed Gods Ministers that is servants Heb. 1.7 yea whiles man is made Lord of all Gen. 1.26 the Angels were to be servants unto man Heb. Heb. 1.14 as they saw by their imployment from the beginning of the world Besides Adam in all his glory must have a wife a second-selfe formed out of himselfe as a propagatrix of Man-kinde as a good without which it was not good for man then all-happy man to be Gen. 2. Angels being stinted in their owne number and comforts too and in their own single persons which Conjugals and Propagative became an opportunity of a Prophesie Gen. 3. and a performance of the birth of Christ out of mans loynes and in opposition to the Devill to overthrow him Gen. 3. And as a Seale to all this hee had the Tree of life a type of Christ to be continually in his eye All which might well make the most sagacious Angell especially afore his fall suspect that mans nature in time should bee united to the Godhead in the person of Christ and so man at last to become farre above him in compleat happinesse and thereby cause him in wrath against God as neglecting him to revolt from God in heaven And to bee revenged on man whom he so direfully emulated hee effectually tempted him to fall also Since when hearing articulatly in the word Gen. 3. c. to the end of