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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	6,721	5	4.2859	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14778	Christ in the clouds, or Gods comming to iudgement A short treatise, very necessary in these euill and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord, may be their day of ioy.; Christ in the clouds.	Warner, John, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 25078; ESTC S106604	10,185	26

CHRIST In the Clouds OR GODS comming to Iudgement A short Treatise very necessary in these euill and dangerous times for all those which desire that the day of the Lord may be their day of ioy MAR. 13. Verses 35.36 Watch for yee know not when the Master of the house will come whether at Euening or at mid-night or at the Cock-crowing or at the dawning lest he come suddenly and finde you sleeping LONDON Printed for F. Coles at the vpper end of the Old-Baily neere Newgate 1635. Christ in the Clouds or Gods comming to Iudgement EPicurisme and Atheisme are two sins most hainous and deadly the Atheist beléeues there is no God him Dauid confutes Doubtles there is a God which iudgeth the earth The Epicure beléeues there is no Iudgement after Death him Salomon doth séeme to instruct Remember that for all these things thou must come to Iudgment There is no Christian I think Mat. 24.3 but beléeues that there shall be a day of Iudgment But when this day shal come none knows for of that day and houre no man knoweth neither the Angels of heauen but my father only But although no mans reach is able to determine when that day and houre shall be yet it may plainly be demonstrated and shown both from the Prophets and Apostles that this iudgement day is néere at hand will most suddenly come vpon vs. It is the mercy of the holy Ghost to man in holy Writ to insert these caueats and to put man in mind of the Iudgement day and thrée speciall causes 1 That we may be terrified from sin 2 That we might be admonished to the true and sincere worship of God 3 That wee might be strengthened in our faith lest that great and terrible Day should come vpon vs vnawares and so find vs vnprouided Since the foundation of the world wée know the time when the dissolution of the world shal be we are altogether ignorant yet we may iustly Prophesie and presage thus much since sinne and impiety is now come to that height that it can by no succéeding ages be aggrauated that vertue and godlinesse are so despised and vilified among impious men that they can neuer hereafter be lesse estéemed Who cannot then perceiue or is so dull sighted that is not able to apprehend and fore-sée the dissolution to bée at hand Now is that Prophesie of Hosea verified There is no truth nor mercy Hosea 4. nor knowledge of God in the Land which appeareth by the cursing lying murthers thefts and adulteries which now aboundeth Mich. 7. So that now as the Prophet Micah hath it The godly man is perisht from the earth there is no iust man among the sons of men Thus Hosea Micah nay all the Prophets do agrée in one whereupon saith Saint Ambrose When righteous men perish from off the face of the earth the earth must needs perish also because the godly are the pith marrow of earth For as a trée without pith moisture soone drieth vp so the present world must néeds decay when the righteous that should vphold it are not to be found in it for this cause as the Prophet Esay hath it In the City is left desolation and destruction is in the gates thereof because of their manifold iniquities Christ Iesus himselfe said As in the dayes before the Flood Mat. 24. they were eating and drinking marrying and giuing in marriage vntill the day of the flood came and tooke them away So also shall the comming of the Sonne of man be by reason of prophanesse and too much security Suppose that this Prophecy shall be fulfilled vpon our present times and that God will say to vs as he did to Noah I will destroy you with the world O vnhappy and miserable shall that man bee then that hath not God for his guide But to the end wee may the better discerne that we are they vpon whom the ends of the world must come there is no better a signe among those which Christ himselfe gaue before than this Namely That the Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the World for a witnesse to all nations and then shall the end come Which is as much as to say according to S. Chrysostome To accuse and reproue those that would not beleeue the Gospell The same it is of Hillarie The Apostles being dispersed throughout all the world and the Gospell preached then shall the fall of Ierusalem and the end be Neuerthelesse there are both learned vnlearned of this opinion that since the world so long after these prophesies hath continued as before that the end is not néere and that the world should continue still immutable but let them perseuere in their opinions For since S. Ambrose Cyprian Chrysostome and Saint Gregory were of opinion that since the Gospell in their time was preached to all Nations long after their time the world could not endure surely then it is most probable that this is the age in which the end must come Now that we may haue some proofe that the world cannot endure long because the Gospell is said to bée preached to all Nations heare Saint Ierome who was of opinion that there was in his time no Nation that was ignorant of the Gospell of Christ for he saith Although they haue no Preacher yet they cannot but heare the opinion of the Faith of their neighbour Nations This Prosper confirmes No part of the world is without the Gospel of Christ some of all sorts and of all Nations haue knowledge of Christ I could induce a Cloud of opinions but let Ambrose serue for them all The Gospell is preached that the world may be destroied To conclude this point since probably by this great motiue we are induced to beléeue that the end is at hand and that the day and houre thereof is vncertaine it should stirre vs vp to a more holy course of life lest that our desolation and confusion ouertake vs vnawares But to the end that wée may the better vnderstand and beléeue what hath béene before shewed the word of God is a most firme argument to informe vs of the truth of Christs sudden comming and that this present Age is the last Age of the world for the Spirit expresly saith 1 Timoth 4. That in the latter end some shall depart from the Faith giuing heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Deuills speaking lyes in Hypocrisie and hauing their consciencce feared with an hot iron c. And againe know this also That in the last dayes perillous times shall come for men will bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents vnthankefull vnholy without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent despisers of those that are good high-minded louers of pleasure more than of God hauing the forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Thus farre the Apostle which words S. Cyprian handling saith All things that were foretold are