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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19279	The true and perfect copie of a godly sermon preached in the minister at Lincolne, by the reuerend father in God, Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the .28. of August. Anno. 1575.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1575 (1575)	STC 5691; ESTC S111168	25,439	76

this verse of the Psalter to be song Super aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis conculcabis Leonem Draconem As if he should haue sayd behold here is that proude Antichrist that the Scriptures witnesseth shoulde treade vnder his féete the most noble state of Emperours in the fare of the world apply vnto him selfe that verse which the Prophet ment of the sonne of God and sauiour of the worlde Christ Jesu Call I say further to your remembrance that you haue séene this power shewe him selfe as proudly towarde God as he hath done to princes of the earth that he hath called hym selfe the heade of the vniuersall church Christes Uicar in earth that he hath taken vpon him for money and bryberie to sell remission of sinnes to dispence with most horrible vices against the lawe of God to deliuer from hell to dismisse out of purgatorie to commaunde the Angels of heauen to alter the ordinances and institutions of Christ That hath suffred his parasites to proclaime that he hath a diuine power in him aboue the nature of man that he can not erre that he is another God in earth that he is neyther God nor man but a monster betwéen both These properties I say cal to your cōsideration and compare them with the discriptions of Antichrist made by the Prophets and Apostles and then dout if you can whether the man of sinne the sonne of perdition be come into the world or no and consequently whether the end of the world and the comming of the last dreadfull iudgement be euen at hand or no. The thirde testimonie is taken out of the words of Christ Luke 17. where he sayth As it vvas in the dayes of Noe so shall it be also in the daye of the sonne of man they did eate and drinke they married vviues and vvere married euen vnto the day that Noe vvent into the Arke c. Likevvise also as it vvas in the dayes of Loth they did eate they did drinke they bought they solde they planted they builded vntill the same day that Loth vvent out of Sodome and sodeinly it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen and destroyed them Euen thus shall it be in the day that the sonne of man shal be reuealed c. Why you will say vnto me it is no offence to eate to drinke to marry to plante to buy to sell to builde and those things haue bene vsed in al ages True it is that you say neyther doth Christe this to reproue those things in them selues but in those words he noteth the great securitie that was among men at those dayes and the excessiue delight that they had in these pleasures ornamentes of the world reposing suche confidence in them as though the world should for euer haue continued and as if there had béene none other heauen to haue rested in but this And in the trust hereof dyd they neglect the preaching warning calling to repentance vsed by Noe and Loth euen vntill Gods wrath came vpon them and euen in like maner doth Christ signifie that it should be in the ende of the worlde And when I praye you was there since the worlde was first made so great securitie in sinne such contempt of godlinesse such confidence in worldlye prosperite suche feasting banquetting and daintie feeding such gorgeousnesse in apparell such sumptuousnesse in building suche vnseasonable marrying such planting such building such buying and purchasing suche raking and scraping together of worldly pelfe as if men did determine to abyde still vpon the face of the earth or as if euerie man did striue to passe other in riot sensualitie whē they haue consumed them selues with monstrous excesse in all pleasure then not contented with that they haue by hooke or by crooke they pull from other euen from the ministers of Christe euen from the church of God euen from the prechers of the Gospell and poore seruantes of God which euen among the heathens haue alwayes had their honourable portion left vnto thē Wherfore howe they doe estéeme the true worship of God in these days men do shew when they declare suche impietie towardes his ministers And when they are reproued for these enormyties it is so farre off that they doe repent and amende that they scoffe and ieste they rayle and slander they taunte and reproue as if they were at defiance with God and his messangers or as if they had made a couenant with death and with hell to be out of their danger But when they say peace peace all is sure then sodainly as Paule sayth shall destruction come vpon them as the Deluge did vpon the sonnes of mē in the dayes of Noe and fire from heauen vpon Sodom in the time of Loth. For euer before the horrible plagues of God obstinate securitie and contempt of Gods calling hath gone before as a messanger and shewed it self in the lyfe of men The fourth testimonie of the spéedy comming of the last daye is the wordes of Sainte Paule 2. Tim. 3. Knovve you this sayth he that in the latter dayes shall be perillous times for men shall be louers of them selues couetous boasters proude blasphemers disobedient to parents vnthankfull vngodly vvithout naturall affection truce breakers false accusers ryotous fierce despisers of them that are good traitors headie high minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a fourme of godlines but denying the povver thereof Who would not thinke that Saint Paule did in spirite foresée the maners of this time and these dayes into which we are falne and those wicked vices wherwith the world is now ouerwhelmed What state of men is there in which most of these vices doe not shew them selues and that in such maner as neuer in any age the like what slacke and corrupt gouernment in Magistrates what stubbournesse and disobedience in subiectes what pryde and selfe liking in the riche and wealthy what spite and enuie in the poore and beggerly what loosenesse and wantonnesse in youth what couetousnesse and waywardnesse in age what cockering and euill ensample of life in parentes what dnnaturalnesse and vnkyndnesse in children what headynesse and fiercenesse in maisters what negligence and vntruth in seruantes what craft subtiltie and deceyte what counterfayting and dissymuling what false and vniust dealing almost in all men Trueth and sinceritie is banyshed cousoning and falshoode is estéemed wisedome and christian simplicitie is counted péeuishe follie A man would in these dayes maruell to heare of that playne dealing that in old time hath bene I haue hearde that the gyuing of a mans hande should haue assured his heart and tyed his fayth and trothe but nowe all the bondes that mans wit can deuise will scantly hold that whiche one couenanteth with another If there were no other argument but the ripenesse that sinne and wickednesse is nowe growen vnto it should sufficiently proue that the glory of this world must shortly fall decay There is an olde saying of much credite among the ewes