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A86498	Dæmonologie, and theologie The first, the malady, demonstrating the diabolicall arts, and devillish hearts of men. The second, the remedy: demonstrating, God a rich supply of all good. By Doctor Nathanael Homes, [sic]	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2562; Thomason E1341_2; ESTC R209143	95,747	222

foretold the evils of the last dayes doth likewise set a conspicuous marke upon the times to signifie hee meanes the same times as Paul did Namely those that foregoe next before Christs appearance and Kingdome 2 Pet. 3.2 3 4. That yee may be mindfull of the words which were spoken before by the HOLY PROPHETS that is saith Marlorat the words which the Prophets spake concerning false Prophets which Peter had repeated 2 Epist Chap. 2. Vers 1. and of the last times Knowing this FIRST that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers saying Where is the promise of his COMMING For since the Fathers fell asleepe all things continue as they were from the creation As if they should say We see nothing of Christs appearances but outward providences or spiritual Ordinances But of Christs visible appearance at his COMMING we see no signe or symptome But saith Peter Verse 8. to the Saints Be yee not ignorant of this one thing that one day with the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years as one day As if he should say in that hee makes this repetition according to the judgement not onely of all the most learned Hebrews but also of most learned Mede that Christs comming wil be sudden to these Scoffers as if it were but a day or two hence every thousand years and parts of a thousand years shal be but in proportion to a day and so much of a day The seven thousand years of the World is but as the seventh day of its age when at farthest if our account of years from the creation be so short as we make it of which we have cause to doubt shal be the Sabbatisme of rest on Earth as Paul must needs meane Heb. 4. demonstrated largely in our Treatise of the thousand years And that day a thousand yeares of refreshment to the people of God And it must be saith Peter Verse 12 13. at his comming that for their refreshment they must have injoy and be in New Heavens and a new Earth wherein though not afore shall dwell all righteousnesse And these new Heavens and new EARTH must be such as he hath promised which promise is Isa 65.17 to the end of the Chapter wherein this state of the new Heavens and new Earth is so explained as cannot not onely in my judgement but the judgement of most learned Mede be understood of supernatural glory in the highest Heavens Thus also we see Peter marks out unto us that the evill times and the evils of the times hee speaks of doe in his sense antecede and usher in the next appearance or COMMING of Christ to set up his Kingdome on Earth One word of Judes marks upon the times of evil he speaks of and then we shal lanch forth into the deepe and Sea of the evils of those times One marke is Vers 14. Enoch the SEVENTH from Adam prophesied of these or such as these saying Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints Enoch evidently according to the computation of Moses Gen. 5. and of Luke Chap. 3. was the seventh from Adam thus Adam Seth Enos Cainan Mahaleel Jared Enoch that is Exclusively making Adam onely the beginning of the All of mankinde Enoch was the seventh Father that came out of Adams loynes which is according to the minde of the Text The seventh FROM Adam that is The seventh of the Fathers that were FROM Adam Between Adam and Enoch were but six Fathers So between Adam and the Age of which Enoch Prophesied that the Lord should come with ten thousands of his Saints to judge are at most but six Ages six thousand yeares and then the state of things in the seventh Eòdem recidit the second Adam Christ restores the World to the perfection of the first Adam but with more stability The emphasis of the seventh from Adam must of necessity signifie some such thing and not meerly signifie the antiquity of the quotation For if that had been all the Apostle mentioning the story of Sodom and as an example of judgement by fire might also have quoted Lot but doth not of a certainty therefore the seventh from Adam hath some notable thing in it as all sevenths in the Old Testament have And the constant tenor of the Jewes in all ages is and hath been that towards the end of the six thousandth yeare of the World great will the change be And our Text tels us that according as Enoch was a seventh so in a proportion to that the Lord should come to judge now after the Apostles times in the last dayes of the World Immediatly afore which shall be mockers walking after their own ungodly lusts spoken long afore by the Apostles of Jesus Christ as our Apostle Jude tels us Vers 17 18. which is a second marke of those evil times he speaks of to be the forerunners of the very last times before Christs appearance For if the Apostles foretel these things long afore then they are the last times when these things shal come to passe CHAP. II. Shewing in GENERAL That these present times in which we now live are those evill times that precede next before that first appearance of Christ which is yet to come THIS wil appeare by an exact weighing the agreement that is between our times and the general expressions of our three Apostles of the last dayes Jude saith Vers 18. Men should walke after their owne lusts Peter saith 2 Epist Chap. 3. Vers 3. the selfe same words And in Epist 2. Chap. 2. Vers 1. There shall be false Teachers that shall bring in damnable heresies Paul saith 2 Tim. 3.1 They shal be perilous times And in 1 Epist Chap. 4. Vers 1. Men shall depart from the faith The summ of all is That men shal depart from their Principles they shal depart in opinion and practise from their once received Principles of truth and mor all enlightened consciences Just as t is sayd of the foolish Virgins Matth. 25. they had no Oyle in their Vessels to maintaine their Lamps of former profession Principia essendi Principles of the being of Godlinesse they never had namely True sanctifying grace for that could never have gone out or been utterly lost But Principia cognoscendi Principles of knowledge what as Christians they ought to think and doe namely The knowledge of the Word to some conviction on the conscience that they had Now from these Principles immediately afore Christs comming they were departed And so t is now in these our dayes Men once called Professors are turned topsy turve as wee Proverbially say from what they were both in opinion and practice They are most perilous times above all times afore them for wicked opinions and practises The wickedest times afore as the Jewes in the worst of times held the Old Testament and the Papists both Old and New though with many false glosses but these times with open mouth cast away all the Scriptures the ground of all divine truth And what

doe they walke after or according to then Even after their owne lusts both corporall lusts namely those Principles that please the flesh and also intellectual lusts and mentall wantonnesses phantasies of their owne spirits What ever pleasant dreames they dreame or new devises they imagine to sooth up themselves and put away all true feare of God and the thoughts of judgement to come of locall Hell and Heaven and the immortality of the soule such dreames and imaginations I say as these that put away all fundamental truths and the thoughts of them are their Principles of truth And like Principles like conclusions Upon such premises must needs follow damnable heresies That the Creature cannot sin because God acts in him That the Creature hath done nothing that he should torment himselfe by denying himselfe any contentment That all things are common and to be enjoyed in common And thus they depart from the Faith As in that 1 Tim. 4.1 of the evil times the Apostle speaks of he saith Some shall depart from the Faith Est fides quâm fides qua There is either the Faith which we beleeve that is the object and ground of Faith namely the Doctrine of Faith the holy Scriptures or the Faith with which we beleeve namely the quality of Faith The parallel of our times to this is that there is in this Nation such an apostasie of Men and Women called formerly Professors from the Faith as I never heard or read of in any Ecclesiastical Story of any Nation We have them that deny the Scriptures and with those blasphemous reproaches cast upon them and with such audacious equalizing yea preferring of their owne dreames above them as it wil be safer to be silent touching the particulars then to carry the sound of them to your eares And if they depart from the object of Faith the Doctrine of the Word of God they must necessitatedly depart from the quality of so much Faith as may be in an Apostate before his faling away As from a fundament all Faith to wit That there is a God and from an historical Faith whereby hee once did beleeve that the Scriptures were the truth of God and so becomes worse then the Devill James 2. And worse then the generality of Heathens * For the Devill cannot be an Atheist but his sinne is properly the sin against the holy Ghost maliciously to hate and persecute that truth of which he is fully convinced And the generality of Heathens could not be Atheists because of the Common Law of nature Rom. 2.15 whoever of them as generally they all did set up any thing to be their God did withal acknowledge some Oracle secret conference or tradition c. whereby they knew the minde of that God And lastly these Apostates are worse then the Jewes or Papists whom they pretend to detest for they both in all their Heresies and Errors in opinion and practice stil in the maine keep to those Scriptures they first imbraced Nor is it a sufficient excuse for them to pretend they have all things dictated to them by the spirit because we are commanded to try the spirits by the Doctrine of the Scriptures 1 John 4.1 And if this place of Scripture is not of weight with these Anti-scripturians let them heare reason How were they two both ledd by the good Spirit when at the same time the one of them preteuded to Preach by the Spirit strange high Hyperphysicall transcendencies and the other in the auditory at the same time breakes out into lowd expressions of sublime spirituall raptures pretended to be upon the parties spirit to the occasioning of the Preacher to hold his peace a while til by and by he cryes out to the other Be silent O flesh Sure the spirit of God is not contrary to it selfe nor the author of confusion And if there be a lying spirit as wel as a spirit of truth how shal we know to distinguish the good from the lyer but by the old good way ever since there was a written Word on Earth namely by the written Word Isa 20.8 CHAP. III. A particular parallell of our times with that in the 1 Tim. 4.1 that men shall give heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils SSould seeme that in the last times there shal be seducing Spirits and their Doctrines as wel as the Spirit of truth and his Doctrines And as Satan is called a lying spirit so hee is sayd to be a lying spirit in the mouth of Ahabs foure hundred false Prophets for one Michaia that spake by the spirit of truth so that mens spirits are also sayd to be lying spirits or spirits or error 1 John 4.1 prompted no doubt also by Satan The Parallell of these times to our times in this suits thus Men yea nominal Professors First are Levellers which was the Devils Doctrine to Adam Secondly Familists saying that men are Deified and God is the Creature which also was in effect the Devils Doctrine Thirdly are much given to heed and beleeve Diabolicall Magick and Divinations under the notion of lawfull Mathematicks and laudable Art to tel and foretel things which God doth not and nature cannot declare or Predict I speake not against proper lawful Art which I am ingaged to honour but against such practises as are above Art and belong to Diabolical assistances whereby many in these dayes are at last decoyed into the Circle of the Devils power of prevailing suggestions and bewitched Obsession if not also most probably by what I could tel you unto possession In Revel 12. Vers 10 11 12. in the type of the last times afore Christs appearance t is sayd Now is the Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ and the Saints overcome by the blood of the Lamb. But immediately afore shal be a Woe to the Inhabitants of the Earth for the Devill is come downe unto you I say immediately AFORE because t is sayd first That the Devill and Satan were cast out And then it followes Now is salvation and the Kingdome of our God and his Christ Secondly t is sayd The Devil is come downe having great wrath because hee knoweth he hath but a short time * And Master Perkins shewes in his Booke of Witchcraft that a man that doth confidently beleeve that upon such Figures Circles and the like Diabolical traditions he shal be told such and such things not knowing any divine or natural reason WHEREFORE it should be so may be in an implicit Covenant with the Devil .. It is not enough for a right knowledge by Art to know That it shal be so but to know justly why and wherefore it shall be so The knowledge of wherefore promiseth Art But the knowledge of onely THAT it shal be so may be suspected of farr worse And doubtlesse some good men in these times whose returne to the truth witnesse their goodnesse of which we have but rare examples have been really bewitched being forced with an irresistable