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A05710	The new arival of the three gracis, into Anglia Lamenting the abusis of this present age.	Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1580 (1580)	STC 1584; ESTC S112724	36,047	48

vppon all fléesh and your sons your daughters shal prophisie your old men shal dreame dreames and your young men shal sée visions yea in those dayes I wil poure out my spirit vppon seruantes and maydens I wil shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokens in the earth be neath blood and fier and the vapour of smook the Son shalbe turnid into darknesse and the Moone into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come And the tyme shall come that whosoeuer callith on the name of the Lord shalbe sauid And the Lorde sayd vnto Moyses speak vnto the children of Israel and say in any wise sée that you kepe my Sabboths for it is a Signe betwéen me and you in your generacions for to know that I the Lord am he that doth sanctifie you kéepe my Sabboths therfore for it is holy vnto me he that de●ileth it shalbe slayne for whosoeuer worketh therin the same soule shalbe rootid out from among his people Six dayes shall men work and in the seuēth day is the Sabboth of the holy rest of the Lord whosoeuer doeth any work on the Sabboth day shall dye Wherefore let the children of Israel kéepe the Sabboth that they obserue it throughout their generacions that it bée an appoyntement for euer for it is a Signe betwéen me and the children of Israel for euer Such wonderous Signes hath the Lorde shewed from tyme to tyme to the end that euery Christian man should haue dew regard to this so holy a commaūdement from Mount Sinai y e thundering voice was a signe of force which ought not to be brokē not a rest for man only but also the whole familie and cattaile The obseruacion of the Sabboth had his originall beginning of that that is sayd written God blessed the seuenth day and sanctified it bicause that in it he rested from all his workes the Isralites gathered the vi day a double quantitie of Manna bicause that on the Sabboth they should rest to the intent that man should labour to get the true rest And on the Sabboth day ther wer offered two lambes vpon the other dayes but one except in solom fea●ts The man that was taken gathering of stickes vppon the Sabboth day was by gods commaundement stoned to death of Nehemias the Gentiles Iudas Machabeus Nichanor with others Concerning the obseruacion of the Sabboth for farther proofe réede the auctorities The Pharises said vnto the disciples of Christ that did pluck and eat the eares of corne ye do that which is not lawful to doo on the Sabboth day but the lord said vnto them haue ye not read what Dauid did c. Then foloweth the sonne of man is also Lord of the Sabboth day there are diuers insamples why it was lawfull for Christ to heale the diseased on the Sabboth day for that being perfect God and man he did not only heale the festerid or putrified bodies but also their sowles The Sabboth day for vs Christians is moste apte and conuenient to heare the word and law of God and the Prophets The which are red euery Sabboth day Likewise our sauiour Christ in fulfilling the law gaue vs this commaundement saying which of you hauing an Oxe or an Asse fallen into a pit and wil not pul him out on y e Sabboth day Num licet Sabbato sanare they to whō Iesus spake which were y e Lawiers Pharises Answered nothing therfore as the sabboth ought to be kept holy from bodely workes so ought all men to eschue vicious thoughtes and craftie imaginacions And when any occasion of doing good by any maner of way ought to be shewed that then it be don with Christian endeuour and puritie of mind In which ●o doing the sabboth is both reuerently and holily obserued But the crabbed wayward natures of this time present haue so much presumed vpon this text and others that some hath and doth as blind baier●s not spared to labour and trauayle on the Sabboth day without any need or occasion at all aleaging notwithstanding that necessitie hath no law so that vnder the culler of necessitie they vse al daies a like Applying the text of the sacred scriptures not to the will and commaundement of god but after their owne carnall fancies for the which ther so great abusing of the reuerend Sabboth The Lord will show strang signes from heauen fier brimstone storme and tempest which shalbe the porcion for the wicked The Sonne and Moone shalbe darkenid and the starres shall withdraw their light the Lord shall rore out of Sion and crye out of Ierusalem that the heauens and the earth shall quake with all but the Lord shalbe a defence vnto his own people and a refuge for the children of Israel I haue rysen vp early I haue geuen you warning in season but you would not heare Behould therefore the words of the Lord that are at hand to plage vs as he hath plagid others and that euery obstinate shalbe scatterid as dong vppon the earth Pray therefore to God to blesse his preachers that the Gospell may flourrish as it ought or els we perish ¶ Prophecis by perticuler VVHen thou art in tribulacion and when all these things that be here spoken of are come to passe thou shalt retourne agayn to the Lord thy God and be obedient vnto his word THis is the word that was openid vnto Esaie the son of Amos vppon Iuda and Ierusalem it will be also in the last days that the hill where the house of the Lord is buldid shalbe the chéefe amōg hils and exaltid aboue all little hils and al nacions shall pray vnto him the multitude of people shall goe speaking thus one to an other let vs go to the hill of the Lord and to the house of the God of Iacob HHare the word of the Lord O ye children of Israel for the Lorde must punish them that dwell in the land And whyle ther is no truth ther is no mercy ther is no knowledge of God in the land but swearing lyeng manslaughter thefte athoultry haue gotten the vpper hand and one bloud gyltinesse foloweth an other Therfore shall the land ●e in a miserable case and all they that dwell therin shalbe rootid out IN the later days it wil come to passe that the hil of the Lords house shallbe set op hygher then any mountayns or hils yea the people shall prese vnto it and the multitude of the gentils shall hast them thither saying come let vs go vp to the hill of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob that he may teach vs his ways and that we may walk in his pats for the Law shall come ont of Sion and the word of God from Ierusalem and shall geue sentence among the multitude of the heathen and reforme the people of far countris FOr mark the day cometh that shall bourn as an ouen and all the proud yea and all

the beginning from the first token or appered show vnto Noah the Rayne bow the fier from heauen the prophising by the Prophets the starre at Christ his birth the prophises sence the innumerable Cōmets Hailes Thūderings Earthquakes strange deaths prodigius birthes as well of creatures as beastes famins hungers sedicions false religions sectes opinions fantasies with an innumerable inormities all these suffiseth not to be forewarninges to y ● most part of the world for the which cause as the end of these few insamples so shalbe the end of such insolent persons be SIbilla Albunea or Tiburtina one of the tenne Sibelles prophised of the ruen of Romae which came to passe in that tyme when Iulius Caesar came with sword to race the same the Ancient figures weare these R.R.R. F.F.F. which signified Regna Romae Ruet IN thrée thinges twise told showes Romes destruction Sword fyer and hunger concludes the subuersion THe raigne of y e Romans or this ruinate shalbe by sword fier and hunger the gods so decrée IN Anno. 315. Constantine the great contended against Maxencius for shewing shameful crueltie against the Christians about which tyme was great persecusion in the church there appeared in the aier a banner or ●isplaied ensigne wheron was figured y e figure of Christ on the crosse after which figure cusued great persecution CElestinus same time Pope of Romae prophised of Bonifacius the eight which came to passe accordingly he came to his Pope●●m by crafte like a Foxe he raigned by force like a Lyon And for his crueltie was put to death like a dogge IN Anno. 1046. as histories relate Benedictus the ninth Pope after his buriall he was or the deuil in his likenesse séen in an horrible figure hauing the body of a Beare the tayle of an Asse clothed in his pontificall vesture And being asked why he was so deformed should answer bicause without lawe he gouerned and as a cruel tirant vsed oppression In this straunge figured apperance should séeme some aduised interpretacion the appering of the Pope in y e shape of a beare séemeth contempsious and wilful and as the Beare aboue all thinges loueth honey so the popes for the most part hateth not money And where as to such a monstrous body was ioyned the tayle of an Asse by the tayle may be signified the whole rable of papistical prelates which as concerning the true acknowledging of the Gospell are but Asses for y ● some knowes wil not others not knowing regards not the rich and costly garments or vesture may signify the golden copes and costly ornamentes where with suche beares are clothed in the church esteming more such glittering attier with y e tradiciō of men then a plaine or comely garment with the gospel of Christ. IN the yere of the foundacion of Romae 720. and in the 42. yeres of Marcus Aurelius the xx day of August about the going down of the Sunne in the realme of Cicil in the Citie of Palermo a pert of y e sea ther chaunsed a meruelous and terrible tempest no lesse miraculous then wonderfull A hideous Monster sitting in a caudron fastened to fower whéeles like a Chariot or Waggon drawen of two Lions two beares be hind casting out fier with horrible stinck which sight amased not a fewe the feare was so great through out the Citie that women with childe were with great daunger deliuered and diuers being fainte harted died through feare After this Monster had bin in the most partes of the Citie he came to the Palace or place wher the pirates were or robbers on the sea being inhabitantes of the sayd Palerna who had robbid certain of the Numidians a people so named of their substance staying at the gate which being shut did cut of one of the Lions eares and with the blood therof wrote as fo●●weth R. A S.P.I.P. which carectes signified Redite Aliena Si vultis Propria in pace Possidere render to others that which is theirs if you in quiet will possesse your own Although this figure with diuers others did terrefy the people in time past and their conuersions likewise from their euiles an ensample to vs of our amendment Notwithstanding such is time present that neyther the Prodigious births the miracuculus signes nor dreadful threatned plagues withdraweth the world from contempt for the which such careles liuers shalbe plaged with F.S.H.P.D.D. Fier Sword Hunger Pestilēse Death Damnaciō A Saxon Monument Multi enim sunt vocati pauci Vero electi Math. 22. Witodlice manega zint gelathode featha gecorene Manega ga zurete halega featha heothan Many be called but fewe doth spéede As many be warned yet fewe take héede More head then wit more haire than wull Makes England thriftles and yong heads dul When neckes be long no hoe in the filling And pleasures preferred in lands small tilling When diuers fashions in apparell are worne And beggers being more pore so nearely are shorne When one won backe is shewed diuers countreys lore A monster must needes be so tolde before When Glandene will be the whole world it selfe A Spaniarde Italian French Flemmishe and elfe All shewed in apparell when this is at prime Then some place be heedefull for sure it is time This picture folowing on the other side of the leafe was made by Namtab a Saxon in Anno 3751. against the abuse of that present time Times past hath beene as nowe to be seeene Ezechiel 4. As wise as Serpents Esay 3. As suttle as Deuels Timothe 3. As craftie as Foxes Amos. 2. As rauening as Wolues The long schull betokeneth Craftie imagination The pleasant countenaunce Flattery The long necke Excesse in eating and drinking The right arme being shorter then the left betokeneth small Deuotion The bagge of money Couetousnesse The left arme Wilfulnesse The sworde Crueltie The straunge disguising in apparell Pride ¶ The prayse and commendacion of holy men to the end that such works may procead as may grow to the like commendacion of those which be liuing with a remembrance of certain wicked ones which do prognosticat that hole number BEhould euery one of you that professe Christ without decimulacion the substance of verite leaue of your halting betwéen two opinions if God be the trew creator follow him if the proud Antechristian be a deliuerer then follow him if the tradicions of men be to be preferrid before the lawe and testimony of Iesu Christ thē mark y e ensāples as they folow Enoch walked right and acceptable before the Lord therefore was he translatid for an ensample for a mendement of the generacion NOah was a stedfast a righteous mā in the tyme of wraught he became a reconsiling therfore was he left a remnant vnto the earth when the flud came and an euerlasting couenant was made with him that all flesh should perish no more with the water ABraham was a great father of many nacions in glory was ther