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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes therof two sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger and now sorely englished by Thomas Potter ¶ Heerin are expounded the words of our sauiour Mat. 24. touching the end of the world the last iudgmēt Also the words of Dā●elin the 7. chap. cōcerning the most troublesōe kingdōe of the Pope the end therof Finally the woords of the Apostle 2. Tim. 5. concerning the perils of the last times and the excellency and fulnes of holy Scripture Imprinted at London at the long shop in the Pultrie by Iohn Allde Of the end of the world the Iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come and of the moste gréeuous perils of this our moste corrupt age or time ❧ The first Sermon of Henry Bullinger THE matter it self requireth and the examples bothe of the Prophets and also of the Apostles doo instruct vs that all our Ecclesiasticall preachings doctrines I mean admonitions rebukings exhortations counsails and comfortings are to be framed according to the time And moreouer that all Ecclesiasticall dooings are to be referred vnto edifying But if wée should now intreat and speak as the present time requireth and to the prophet of vs all who are moste of vs ministers of the Church and therefore are wee moste cheefely assembled héere to th'entent somewhat should bée said concerning the duety of our office that is moste principally requisit to knowe there appéereth to vs no matter more profitable nor more necessary then to admonish your holinesse ye Fathers and brethern honorable and most déerly beloued of the consummation of the world The preposition and the finall iudgement of Christe Iesus our Lord. And also as our speciall duty requireth diligently and ernestly to stir vp the people of Christe committed to our charge vnto a sober watchfulnes lest sudainly and vnwares the day of the Lord steale vppon them which vndoutedly cannot be far of and which our elders afore vs teachers in the Church abooue a thousand or ix hundred yéeres past did think to be at hand How much rather ought we vppon whom the ends of the world are come who also haue most manifestly séenful filled very many of the Prophesies that haue been set foorth concerning the end of the world and the things that should come to passe immediatly before the day of Iudgement to lift vp our heds knowing that our redemption euen now draweth néer Christe Iesus our Lord béeing yet a fauourable high Préest of the faithful on the right hand of his father but héerafter at the last a moste seuere and yet moste iust iudge of all the whole world graunt mée habilitie to speak duly vnto you and you grace plentifully to heare with frute to the glory of his name and edifying of his Church And because blessed Peeter the Apostle the cheef teacher of this Church and moste faithful Disciple of Iesus Christe our Lord saith If any man speak let him speak as the sayings of God I wil studiously indeuour to shewe foorth and with as much plainnes as I may to open my whole matter euen with the woords of Christe our Lord and with the sayings of the Prophets and Apostles For the holy Prophets in whom was the Spirite of Christe Daniel moste chéefely and Zacharias omitting Esay Ezechiel haue most diligently and copiously instructed the Church of God with their prophesies concerning the latter times of the world and the iudgement of Christe our Lord to come But Christe our Lord the light and fulfilling of the lawe and the Prophets hath so largely and so manifestly debated of these matters that if any man doo yet desire a more plain exposition may séem to séek at the Sun béeing of it self moste bright shining a light much brighter The ꝓphecy of Christ touching the end of the world and the maner of the last dayes He béeing demaunded of his Disciples in the moūt Oliuet and in the sight of the most famoꝰ Citie of Hierusalem what should be the token of his cōming and of the end of the world Made answere That the holy Citie of Hierusalem should first of all be taken and laid flat to the ground and that the Iewes them selues should be led captiue into all nations Wath 24 And that the Gospel of the kingdome should be receiued of all natiōs throughout the whole world And that afterward should false Prophets go abrode who with false doctrine and faied miracles should deceiue the world that vvith such prohability happy successe that euen the very elect should haue combrance thervvith Among other things he resiteth False teachers and false Christes and euen those Antichristes also that should forsake the very true Christe the sonne of the eternall God and should not sincerely vnto the faithful shew him foorth sitting on the right hand of his father but in the earth in the desert in sundry and diuers places and also euen En tois temeios that is to say in close and secret places in Chests and Ambries For the Grecians call Temeia secret and wel fenced places where treasures are laid vp also the hidden and priuy places of a house and the very Ambry or Spence And the little Sacrament houses diligently fenced with Locks and boltes the Popes men call them Ambries As sure as God is in the Ambry out of the which as out of an Ambry they bring foorth Viaticum their viage prouision or Howzel as they call it But our Lord in the Gospel with loud voice crieth out saying Do not beleeue them doo not go foorth doo not beleeue them Beeholde I haue tolde you before And héeer he addeth by and by that greeuous persecutions shall arise against the godly He saith that there shal be great troubles that there shall appeer tokens in the Sun in the moon and in the starres that some shal be greeued vvith great pēciuenes through despair that sōe beeing dissolute vvāton through to much a certain carelesse securitie shall be in that last day ouervvhelmed that the vvorld shal be about the end altogither such as it vvas before the flud in the daies of Loth vvhile the Giants Sodomites lay sleeping and snorting quietly in the dung of vvickednesse despising all the good admonitions of God giuen vnto them by the holy Fathers in so much the destruction came vpon them vnlooked for Paule the Apostle of Christe speaking also of that vngodly securitie 2. Thesse 5. Of the times saith hee at vvhat momēt our Lord vvil come to execute iudgement there is no need for mee to vvrite vnto you brethern For you your selues do plainly knovve that the day of the Lord vvil come as a theef in the night For vvhen they shall say peace and quiet safetie then

they may teach Wherfore as many of vs as desire to be saued let vs kéep our selues within the bonds of the example of Christe and of his Apostles ●e must continue in the Apostles doctrin Now touching the Apostles doctrine we are admonished by the Apostle First that we must continew in the Apostles doctrine Afterward he sheweth the causes why euery godly man ought to continue in that kinde of doctrine For he pronoūceth plainly and techeth with great power he saith But tary thou or continevv thou stedfastly As if hée should haue said How soeuer the deceiuers and deceiued go foreward in their errors housoeuer graet numbers of men departing from the plainnes and singlenesse of the Apostles doo folowe corrupt doctrin and those Egiptian Sophisters yet neuerthelesse perseuer and continue stil thou all others that couet to please God and to abtain true saluation In what things I pray you shall they continew The Apostle addeth it In those thinges vvhich thou hast learned and vvhich haue ben committed vnto thee But Timothe had learned the Scriptures and out of thē the holy gospel as straight way the Apostle wil expound him self And this was that precious pledge which was committed vnto him Therfore the godly must perseuer and continue in the Scriptures and in the doctrin of the Gospel So shall it come to passe that they shall not be a pray to the deceiuers and to the most wicked men of this last age what was committe● vnto Tim● the and against traditions Neither must we think as certain foolish men doo fain that vnwritten Traditions were committed vnto Timothe as though the Apostle had ment that without traditions the Scriptures suffise not vnto godlinesse or that he had taught one thing by woord of mouth and another thing in writing For by and by the Apostle him self wil declare that the Scriptures are moste ful and moste absolute such as are able throughly to fashion and make perfect the worshipper of God The Apostle els where affirmeth very intirely 1 Cor. 4. that his doings agrée in one sorte all alike and that he teacheth like doctrin in all Churches He sayeth also that he and his disiples walke all one way and béeing all led by one spirit doo all things with humilitie ● Cor. 3. Again to the Corinthians VVee vvrite saith he none other things vnto you then vvhich ye read and vvhich also ye knovve Yea and so I trust that ye shall knovve vnto the end And again 4. Cor. 10. As vve are in vvords by letters vvhen vve are absent such are vve indeed also vvhen we are present But it is openly apparant that those things whiche those men recken vp among the vnwritten verities affirming the same to be receiued from the Apostles euen as if were from hand to hand are so disagreing with those things which are contained in the writings of the Apostles that they are euen directly repugnant and contrary Of which kinde are those matters which they stuf in conserning the vse of Images in the Church conserning the Masse conserning single life and Munckery and infinit other such ingling deceits Where also euen that is diligently to be noted that he said not Tary thou in those things which thou shalt learn yet heerafter But tary thou in those hings vvhich thou hast learned To vs therfore partain not those things which wretched men after certain hundred yéeres haue learned of Fathers such as indéed may be called stepfathers and of lewd and superstitious Munks It foloweth now why we ought to cleue onely to this doctrin Why wee ought to cleue only to the scriptures Indéed many reasons may be alleaged but among many these are the chéefest First Knovving saith he of vvhom thou hast learned them Truely it is much to be respected of what maisters or teachers we learne any thing For the doctrin receiueth authoritie from the teachers or author therof It is thought that from the more excellent cunning and holy men proceedeth some excellent learned and holy thing Verily from men procéed humaine things and from God procéed godly and deuine things But of whom had Timothe learned or from whom came the doctrin receiued by Timothe Surely from the most holy Apostle and most select instructment of God Therfore not the man Paule but rather the Spirit of Christe inspiring Paule hath purchased authoritie vnto the doctrine Therefore Timothe knewe and al the faithful also at this day knowe that the doctrine of the Apostles sprang not from men but from our Lord God him self and that therfore we ought to beléeue the same and inseperably cleue vnto it For our Lord him self saith in his Gospel Iohn 13. Verily verily I say vnto you hee that receiueth an Apostle or vvhomsoeuer I shall send receiueth me And he that receiueth me receiueth him that sent me Math. 10. And again speaking of the Apostles It is not you that speak but it i● the spirite of your father that speaketh in you Iohn 3. And again He that is from aboue is aboue all He that procedeth of the Earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth He that commeth from Heauen is aboue all and what he hath seen and heard the same he testifieth Wherfore in asmuch as it appéereth that the doctrin of the Apostle is heauenly deuine with good cause doo we beléeue with good cause doo we inseperably cleue to it Neither did the Apostles without great reason say therfore shalt thou cōtinue in the apostles doctrin which thou hast receiued because thou doost surely knowe that thou hast receiued and learned the same from Heauen But can we so say of the vnwritten traditions and of the ordinances of man No by no meanes Therfore why should we beleeeue them why should we receiue them why should we continew in them These things are due to the holy Scriptures only and alone They are vtterly mad that make humain things equall with deuine But they are led by the Deuil that prefer things humain before diuine and thrust downe and embace diuine things as though they were vncertain doutful vnperfect and darke Dauid the moste notable King and moste excellent Prophet of God crieth but against such filthy and blasphemous persons and pronounceth with moste true mouth Psal 19. The lawe of the Lord is a perfect law conuerting the soule The testimonie of the Lord is true giuing wisdome to the litle ones The statutes of the Lord are right and reioice the hart The commaundement of the Lord is pure and giueth light to the eyes Thy word is a Lantern vnto my feet and a light vnto my steps Furthermore the Apostles doctrine is grounded vppon the Scriptures or writings of the Prophets The Apostles doctrine is grounded vppon the Scriptures Paule bearing witnes and saying I was put a part to preach the Gospel of GOD vvhiche he promised afore by the Prophets in the holy Scriptures But we knowe that the same are therfore

called holy because they are vttered by the holy Ghoste It foloweth therfore in the woords of the Apostle And for that also thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures from a childe The holy fathers in olde time were w●nt to instruct their children out of the authenticall Booke of the lawe of God and of his Prophets Therfore because Timothes mother was a Iew borne albeit his Father was a Gentil he béeing exercised in the scriptures from a childe had accustomed him self therunto And when he heard the Apostle preache the Gospel of Christe hee vnderstoode straightway by the inspiration of the spirit of God and by conferring of the woords of Paule with the woords of the Prophets that the Apostles doctrine touching Christe was taken out of the law and the Prophets and confirmed by the testimonyes of the same And for that cause he knew that he had not learned the faith of Christe out of wandering rumours and vain talks of the people but out of the autenticall Booke that is to say out of the holy Scriptures namely inspired from God as I haue already declared and deuoutly taught and written touching things moste pure of all other by none but by such as were moste holy men All other books that where out of the Canon and common vse of the Church are accounted vnder the name of prophane Books But this is an effectuall reason and such a one as ought throughly to mooue the mindes of all men that we must therfore beléeue the Apostles doctrin and cleue only to the same because it proceded from God and is confirmed by the Authenticall Scriptures béeing moste ancient and moste holy of all other What so euer booke of what so euer Authors thou shalt compare with these Books thou shalt scarcely compare Lead or durt it self with moste fine and shining Golde Moste rightly therfore doo we beléeue that they of all men be moste foolish who either omitting the Apostles doctrin and writings of the Prophets turn aside to the inuentions of man as though there could be taught or contayned in these more absolute more cléere and more certain things then in the other or else vtterly giue no credit at all vnto the Scriptures The taunt which our Lord gaue to the vnbeléeuing disciples is right notable and woorthy of speciall remembrance Luke 24. when he said O ye fooles and slovv of hart to beleeue all those things vvhich the Prophets haue spoken The Scripture is able to make a man wise vnto saluation And now ensueth in the Apostle another reason no lesse euident why we ought only to beleue and stick fast to the Apostles doctrin and to the holy Scriptures Because saith he they are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith in christe Iesu The Philosophers haue disputed much of true and false Wisdome True wisdome and haue so entangled them selues with their chattering that they scarcely vnderstād them selues and muche lesse reaped any frute of their disputations Paule dooth simply and truely deriue true Wisdome out of the Scriptures of God and out of the Apostles doctrine For God béeing moste excellent wise dooth very often in his woord call his commaundements and the doctrine set foorth in his lawe and by the Prophets true Wisdome And Moyses béeing elder then those men whom the Gretians call moste ancient namely Homer and Hesiodus and the Battel of Troy and also béeing much more excellent then Hercules Museus Linus Orpheus Mercurius Apollo and the other Gods of the Gentiles or then euen the holy Soothsayers elder also then the wise men of Greece Much more ancient then Plato and Aristotle dooth expresly say in Deuteronomy Deu. 4. You shall keep and doo the commaundements of the Lord for this is your wisdome and vnderstanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these ordinances and shall say This people only is wise and hath vnderstanding a famous Nation But the Apostles also at this present dooth shew that saluation is the end and also the frute of true wisdō saying VVhich are able to make thee wise vnto saluation But without the true saluation of man what shall auaile I pray you the empty name and vain title of wisedome Wisdome is the knoweledge of things diuine and humain and moste chéefely of those things by which we may knowe the highest good euen God him self and therwithall to be ioyned togither with Christe The which indeed is true blessednes and the highest felicitie And now I omit to rehearse how that out of this knowledge of God springeth righteousnesse and the looue and exercise of true vertue and of all deeds that are truely good But the Scripture and doctrine of the Apostles abundantly suffiseth to giue this Wisdome and true saluation Therfore it becommeth vs to content our selues with the same Yea it is expedient for vs to bestowe all our life and all our labour vppon those holy books to depend wholly vppon them to direct all our saylings and all our waies by the same as by a moste infallible and moste sure l●de Starre to run and flée wholy vnto them as to a moste safe Sanctuary For Dauid cryeth out and witnesseth saying Blessed is the man that delighteth in the lawe of the Lord Psal 1. and ernestly studieth in the same bothe day and night Luke 11. For the Lord sayeth also in the Gospel Blessed are they that hear the woord of God and keepe the same And in deed this shal be the onely and safest way to escape all perils of al times and all deceits and legerdemain yea euen the moste sharp and cruel of this our last age But because saluation might be hoped for by this heauenly wisdome and also by the reading and bare knoweledge of the holy Scriptures or els by the merits of the vertues whiche we haue learned out of the Scriptures therfore in déed very godly and Apostolikely he addeth and sayth Saluation cōmeth by faith in Christe Through faith in Christe Iesu Therfore saluation is learned out of the Scriptures because it consisteth in Christe alone And Christe who is the bread of life the saluation and fulnes of the Saints dooth onely and alone giue true saluation But true faith béeing instructed by the spirite of God and by the holy Scriptures receiueth the same Saluation therfore is to be attributed vnto faith not to any other thing but yet not to euery faith but only vnto the same that commeth vnto vs by the grace and benefit of the holy spirit the which we lerne out of the Scriptures the true wisdome of God which extendeth and is staied vpon the a●only sonne of God who is our onely moste absolute most assured and eternal righteousnes redemption satisfaction sanctification life and fulnes But The end ●●●ft of the Scriptures as soon as the Apostle hath expounded these things very elegantly and plainly he sheweth what is the end and mark to the which we must direct all

yéeres and half a yéere in which Antichriste should rain and then afterward should be quite abolished But the doctrine of the Gospel is repugnant to that interpretation which constantly affirmeth that the day of iudgement is knowen vnto no man And Daniel also in the self same chapter saith that the beast shall rage vntil the seats be prepared that is euen vntil the day of iudgement And that he shall then be thrown down hedlong in to the déep pit of Hel and also that the faithful shal be deliuered and glorified who haue for Christes cause sustained all kindes of punishments Verily Paule agréeing with Daniel VVhom our Lord saith he shall put away with the brightnesse of his comming But who can certainly declare vnto vs the time of Christes comming that is the day of Iudgement But hée which shall say that Antichriste shall reign iij. yéeres and a half and straight wayes after be abolished may seeme to declare it plainly For the end of Antichristes kingdome is the very last day of the finall Iudgement Therfore by that dark kinde of speaking no time certain is appointed But rather the godly are admonished of patience and long suffering and that we should not ouer curiously séeke out the very moment of this time but rather refer it vnto Christe who saieth in an other place vnto his Disciples It belongeth not to you to knowe the times and moments of times which the father hath reserued vnto him self But vvatch ye that when your Lord shall come he may finde you vvaking After these things Daniel moste plentifully witnesseth that the world shal be at an end and that the day of iudgemēt shall certainly come and throwe down Antichriste in to Hel. Vpon which treatise Christ our Lord hath set foorth a large Commentary and an exposition by the hands of Iohn his Apostle in the xix and xx chapters of the Apocalips the which I leaue vnto your diligence to be serched out and for brevities sake I doo not ouer busily sift out this matter The conclusion And now I suppose it appéereth vnto you by the moste cleere doctrine of Iesus Christe our Lord and also by the euident sayings of the moste holy Prophets of God and by the plain interpretation of the moste select and chosen Apostles of Christe Finally the manifest comparison of the things them selues which partely the Histories doo testifie to haue béen doon a long time agoe and partly we sée them dayly come to passe before oure eyes that the Prophecyes of the last time are now all ready fulfilled and that therfore the day of our Lord is at hand and our redemption approcheth néere Wherby I think you all doo vnderstand that your duties require you to admonish to exhorte and instantly to call vppō and vrge the faithful to watch and lift vp their heads shaking away all drowsines And that they looke for none other signes nor other times but to beleeue the Gospel the Prophets and Apostles and the very things them selues apparent before the eyes of all men and also that they wait not for any other Antichriste to come but to take now good héed to them selues of him that is now presently reigning and troubling all things to flée vnto Christe Iesus who is the fulnes of the faithful and in him to séek all things pertaining to our saluation to depend wholy vppon his mouth and vppon his help to haue respect vnto him alone to depart from all vncleannesse to liue godly and honestly and moste chéefly to beware of vngodly securitie and careles negligence and also of drunkennesse bothe spirituall and corporall that when the Iudge our Lord Iesus Christe shall appéere in the clouds of Heauen with great power and glory we may ioyfully be taken vp in to the aire to meet him and so alwaies liue with our Lord. To whom be glory for euer FINIS ¶ THE SECOND Sermon of Henry Bullinger teaching by the woords of the Apostle 2. Timothe 3. after what sorte the godly may auoid the harms of the moste perillous daungers in this our last age RIght notable is the place of the Apostle Paule which in the latter epistle to Timothe and the third Chapter is woord by woord after this sort But perseuer thou in those things which thou hast learned and vvhich haue been committed vnto thee knowing of vvhom thou hast learned them and for that also thou hast knowen holy Scriptures from a childe vvhich are able to make thee vvise vnto saluation through faith in Christe Iesu For all Scriptures giuen by inspiratiō of God are profitable to teach to reprooue to amend to instruct in rightuousnesse that the mā of God may be perfet preparad to all good vvorks The Scriptures set foorth euen to our eyes The bountiful goodnes of God toward mankinde shineth foorth in many things but moste chéefly in that that he hath so measured the doctrin of our saluation which he committed to the world by moste excellent men that it is agréeable not onely to the same time in which it was first set foorth by the prophets and Apostles but vnto vs also vppon whom the ends of the worlde are come And truely all the moste holy cumpany of the Prophets and Apostles with one consent doo testifie that the last times shal be of all other moste perillus They doo moste diligently and copiously not onely describe those daungers but also set them foorth before our eyes to be seene to that end no dout that the godly should not be entangled and perish in euil and in perils The argument and drift of the matter Of that number is Paule the vessel of election who at this present procéeding in moste godly order dooth first of all very diligently showe foorth the daungers of this our last age Afterward hée declareth a remedy wherby the godly may escape the harmes therof The thing is not onely elegant notable and wholesome but also very necessary moste chéefly for vs and our time Therfore haue I chosen this place to entreat of now before you ye honorable fathers and bretheren moste déerly beloued in our Lord that beeing instructed with the doctrin of the Apostles we may through the spirite of God be strengthened in true godlinesse and he able to deliuer out of daungers the flock of our Lord committed to our charge the Lord blessing our labours Our Lord assist vs with his grace and direct vs alwaies in the way of saluation But The description of the euil acts daungers recited in the Scriptures like as the Phisitions in their books doo moste diligently describe euen such diseases as are moste filthy not to the intent to praise and commend them or els allow them but to th'nd they may be exactly knowne and the more perfectly cured so the Scripture in this present place infinite others doth moste manifestly reherse mischeuous deeds euen such as are to be abhorred and not to be named without sir reuerence not to the