Chriil:s ofthe [reede. lall iudgement. · terrible and grieuous calamities: ·For C~rifls A uerfoticn .wdgodlin1fi? and the reafon is good. difciples asking him a{igncofhtscommtng&. For ifheauen and earthmufl bochanged, and ofrhc endofthe world, he fatth, Mat.>4·6·z· purged at Chrifl comming, then much more ThereJhallbe warr"andrNmoHr!lfrrarru,na"• ought we to be changed, and putoffthe old rmJhalrifoag.-;nftn~tion,&re~tlm~ltglllnj}re"'Jm: man offinne, and to become new cn:atures andthm]hallbepej/ilence andfamine, 4ndearth-· created after the image ofGod in righteouf.. qnakpindi~ters pl4ces, tmd menjba/Jbee nt thesr nes &trueholines. 1fthe bruit creatures rnufr rrits end. Thefehaue beene in former ages. In be renued by fire, then much more are wee to the firfl: l· hundred yearesafter Chrifl, we~e labour that the heat cfGods fpirit may burne ren more fearefull perfecutions ; and fiuce 10 vpfinne, and corruption in vs, and fo change Eorope the Churchof God bath beene wouvs that we may bee ready for him againfl: his derfully perfecuted by the Antichrifl: of comming:elfeheauen&earthitf<lfOTallf!and Rome in the hundred yeares laf!pall:. iu iudgemeut againf! vs to our conde.mnati• Thcfixtfigne, isanexceedingdeadheffeof on. Secondly, theconfideration ofthis, that heart, fo asneither iudgemenrs fromheauen, the world fhal becon.fumedwirh lire,reacberh nor the preachingofthe word fhal moo~e the vs moderation and fobriety in the vfe ofGods · hearts ofmen. So Chriflfaith.Itfhal be 10 the B creatures, as in coflly building, gorgeous atcomming ofthe Sonne ofman,as it wasin the tire,and fitch like.What madnes is this to beLul•tr. daiesof~e, andinthe daiesofSodom: They !lowall rharwe haue,ontUch things, as at the 16· 1"~· k!JewntJtbing tiOthefoo4came, 1111dfirefrom he~- day ofiudgemcnr fhal be confumed with fire? Ntndrjlroy,J the"' .u. This ?gne vndoubtedfy Forlook whatfoeuer abufe ihal cometo Gods is m•nifcft in rhcfe our dates, howfoeuer It creatures by our folly, the fame ihall thenbe bath bene alfo in former rimes. For where aboliOied. Thirdly, we muf!confidcr that the are any almoll: that are mooued withGods caufe why heauen& eltth mufl be confumed iudgement, or touching at the preachmg of withlire, is mans fin, by meaneswherof, they the word?nay rather men harden theirhearts, are made wbiect to vallity& corruption.Herc and become fecure and careleffe. The fmall then we haue iuf! occafion to acknowledgthe fruit that the 'Vord of God bringeth forth in ' grearne!fe and wrerchedneffc ofour finnes. If the liucsofmen,fhpwesthis to be molhrue. any of vs had bur feenethe Iewesleprofie, ir The feauenth and!all figile, fc:t downe by would haue made vsto wonder: for the conthe Apoflle 'Paul,is, thatthere ihal be A caRing tagion thereofdid infect not onely the whole ofthel<Wes beforethe Lord c1111i1 to ii<dgement, man, but his garments alfo that were aboot L<u,t ~· Rom. 11 •s. butofrhe time when this calling c him,and fometime the walles ofhis houfe:but ,. 47 .&: ih•ll be,ofthe manner how, or rhe pumberof howfoeuer we cannot fc:e that leprofic among '4•34• rh<~tt that fhall be called, there isno mention, vs,yetwe may fee aworfe. Fortheleprofie of made in the word ofGod.Nowit Islikely that our fmnes doth not only infect our garments, this figne is yet to come. and the things about vs with our bud!es: but Thcfe are the tigncs that goe before the euen·the high heauens and the earth are llaicommingofChrifl,all which are :olmof! pafl, ned with thecontagionthereof, and aremade and therefore the end cannot be far off. Now fubidho vanity and corruprlon: yea by finne foiJo,;<Sthe figncthat isioyned with the eo. in vs the mofl glorious creatures in them, as mingofChrill,calledthcftgne<ftheSonofm.tn. theSunne, Moone, and Starres, are become · What this figne is, wee find not in the Scripfubiectto ~anitie. Oh then,how wretched is rures. Some thinke it to bee the figne of rhe the heart ofman, that makes no bones of fin, crulfe,but thatis friuolous: fomc,the glorie& which is the moft noyfume thing in all the maief!ieofChrifl:, which!hall be mademaniworld,thc f!inke whereof hath infected both tefl in his appearance: which feemes tobe oheauen and earth f Ifwecould confider this, Mat.·~· thcrwlfc by the very words of Chrift, Then wee would not bee fo lhcke inhumbling our 3•· I (faithhc)j/i.tappearerheftgnt'?frhefonne<?fman, D felnes for the fame as we are. We cannot a- &c. and then theyfhallfee himcomein thecioJJds bide to looke on a poore lazarfull of blanes '?fh«uen IOithpo10erandgreatglorie:wherhe di· and fores : butifwe would fee qur fins in their lilinguifherh the one front the other. But I ranghtcolours,thcy would make vs feeme vnro ther c6iecturc it to be the burning of eeauen our felues ten thoufand times more ougly \ &earthwirhfire,atthe~eryinflantofChrifls then any lazar.man can bee; the contagion :.Pu.3. .comming mentioned byTuer. We mufi: not thereofisfogre1rand noyfome, that the very 10 • here difpute whccethis fire ihal comc,or how heaueos which are many thoufand miles diir fhJII beekindled, for that the word ofGod !lamfrom vs,areinfectedtherewith.Yethere harhconcealed: & whereGodharh no mouth we aretoknow,thatthis lire ihal not confume tofpeak, thcie'wc mult hanenoeare to heare. the fubflanee of heanen andearth , but onely Thevfes to be made hereofare the(e: When change the quahty,and aboltfh thecorruption S. Pemhad fetdownthe change that fhall be which our finnes haue brought vpon them: at the comm.ing ofChrifl, and rhat heauen The fourth potnt to be confidered, is the and earth mufl be purged wirh fire, he makes manne< of the lafl iudgement in which wee • r...3• thi•vfe thereof.Suing .a things mujl beedi]Joi· mayobfcru~rwo_rhings: l. wh~a,.u be indge, I u. 1 xed,wh:.imannerofmenought '" tabe in holy conII. the pr()cecdt~g-~~~The firlt is · _ 3...:.____,_ expre_lfed '--·
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