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A34575	The great necessity of preparation for death and judgment a sermon preached in the parochial chappel of Macclesfield, in the county palatine of Chester, at the funeral of Mr. John Corker, als Cor Cor, of Hurdesfield, on the eleventh day of November, 1693, and since revised and enlarg'd at the request of the relations of the deceased / by Samuel Corker, als Cor Cor ...	Corker, Samuel, 1645 or 6-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing C6307; ESTC R9062	80,354	95

Curious may meet with fuller satisfaction The Astonishment of this dreadful Relation impressed upon the minds of the Disciples struck them with silence till they came from Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives which afforded a curious Prospect of the Holy City about a * Acts 1.12 Sabbath Days Journey distant from it a Mountain famed in Sacred Scripture for the frequent Apparitions of Angels and for being often honoured with the Presence of Christ Luke 22.39 for hither He was wont to retire here He Prayed and from the summit top hereof He Ascended into Heaven but at this time he sate down here either to rest himself for he was of like Infirmities with us or else in imitation of the Jewish Doctors who when they were about to Teach in the Temple sate down testifying by that Gesture their great Authority and the calm composure of their Minds Our Lord by this Posture giving his Followers a fair opportunity of making their Address unto Him St. Peter James and John came and asked him privately Mark 13.3 When shall these things be and what shall be the Sign of thy coming and of the end of the World For 't is probable they did suppose that the Dissolution of the World should immediately follow the Ruin of the City and Temple and Destruction of the Jewish State and therefore they desired some Prognosticks by which they might discern its approaching Funeral Master what Sign shall there be Luke 21.7 when these things shall come to pass Our Lord gave them no certain Sign from whence they might positively conclude the particular time but he gave them many common Signs which should portend the Destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the World which when they and others in their several Generations should see them they might from thence conclude that the time was at hand and from which we also may be assured that they are Fore-runners of the near Approach of the Great Day of Judgment for it is agreed by Divines that the Ruin of Jerusalem was a Type of the Destruction of the World as therefore before the particular Judgment upon the Jews many Deceivers and Seducers did arise such as Theudas who boasted himself to be some body some great Prophet Lib. Antiq. 18. c. 1 6. Judas also of Galilee mentioned by Josephus and Sadoc his Confederate who Laboured to seduce the People and a certain Aegyptian Magician who took upon him to be a Prophet and coming into the Country of Judea gathered a company of deceivable People to him to the Number of * Euseb Eccl. Hist l. 2. c. 21. Acts 8.9 30000 and Simon the Sorcerer whom the Antients called * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Eldest Son of the Devil who gave out that he was some great one and pretended to be that Divine Being who made both the Angelical and Visible World and perswaded all from the least to the greatest to believe that he was that Numen or Divine Person who was under one Name or other Adored and Worshipped in every Nation as the Supream and Sovereign Deity in honour of whom the Emperour Claudius Erected a Statue with this Inscription upon it Simoni Deo Sancto to Simon the Holy God Even so in the last Ages of the World there shall come many Deceivers Evil Men Lying Spirits that would Vent their own Idle Fancies and seduce others from the Truth to their corrupt way The Truth of this needs no Proof in our Days for the time is come when many that live in the Bosom of the Church 2 Tim. 4.3 4. will not as the Apostle saith endure sound Doctrine which tends to promote Holiness to recover the Soul from Sin and teacheth to Order the Life aright But after their own Lusts heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears disposed to Novelty and Error to be Tossed to and fro like Ships without Ballast and carried about with every wind of Doctrine Eph. 4.14 by the slight of Men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to Deceive Heb. 13.9 Nullum saeculum Religionis feracius nec pietate Sterilius No Age ever made a greater Profession and less practice of Christian Vertue Never was there a more splendid shew of Religion and less sincere Love and serious Piety for if we may without breach of Charity judge of the Tree by its Fruit and of Mens Religion by their Conversation and Actions little remains with some but an outward Form and with too many nothing but the empty Name and Title of being Christians for by their Immoral and Licentious Lives they may rather pass for Turks and Heathens than for the Disciples of Christ so that our Saviours Advice is very seasonable beware look about you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take heed that ye be not deceived Nay rather look home into your hearts lest the Old Man of Sin the great Impostor deceive you and the Son of Man come at that time when ye are least prepared for his coming In this Chapter Our Blessed Saviour Remarks several other searful Presages of the downfal of the Jewish State Such as great Rumours and Discourses of Wars which would create panick fears civil broils and commotions Seditions and Insurrections both in Judea and other Countries for Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be great Famines and Pestilences and Dreadful Earthquakes in divers places Persecutions of the Saints who should be delivered to the Synagogues and into Prisons Luke 21.12 and be brought before Kings and Rulers for the Name of Christ and be put to Death So Stephen was Stoned Acts 7.29 Peter and John were called before the Jewish Sanhedrim where the Scribes Elders Ch. 4.26 Annas and Caiphas used to sit in Council Paul was brought before Agrippa and Festus James was killed with the Sword Ch. 16.23 and afterwards as the Doctrine of the Gospel spread it self Ch. 12.2 the Professors of it were Persecuted by the Heathen Powers with the keenest Malice and put to most lingering and tormenting Deaths and by reason of the great sharpness of these Afflictions many would stumble and turn Apostates as Phigellus Demas Hermogenes Hymeneus and Philetas did for Iniquity would abound and the Love of many both Parents and Children Friends and Relations Strangers and others would grow cold and the Gospel should be Preached to all the World these are percursory Tokens of this great Destruction But those which should immediately precede its coming were the Abomination of Desolation set up in the Holy Place the which would be attended with great Tribulation By which Expositors do understand the Roman Armies made up of Idolatrous Souldiers besieging the City of Jerusalem as once God in his Righteous Judgment suffered the Holy Place to be polluted by the abominable Armies of Antiochus which made most horrid devastation And the Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven