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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

and that of all other shal be moste grieuous endlesse sense of the wrath of that God and iudge before whom he standeth This maner of iudgement is as you sée most terrible the spéedie aproching thereof is verie certeine the signes and tokens can not deceiue vs they are vttered by the Prophete of God by the Apostles of Christe by Christe our Sauiour by the spirite of God by trueth it selfe that can not lye we therefore may be well assured séeing al things to be performed that the yere of our account is nigh that that dreadfull Judge is comming that the day of Gods wrath is at hande and euen in our neckes we know not how soone Therefore I most heartily pray you and in the feare of God and loue of your selues desire you spéedily to cast away the care of the worlde the loue of the fleshe the delight of sensuall pleasure and iolytie whiche holdeth your myndes in suche wicked and detestable securitie Set before your eies the image of his comming in such Maiestie and terror thinke you heare continually the voyce of the Archangell sounding in your eares If feare of punishment may driue you to it he is a seuere Judge If assurance of reward may encourage you he is a bountifull Lord If hope of forgiuenesse before hand asked may comfort you he is a mercifull Sauiour Delay not therefore nor loose not this time of repentance Séeing then it is most certein there shall be a general iudgement and that the time thereof must néedes be verye nighe and that before a Judge of so great Maiestie and the examination and account so straight to al them that shall neglect the time of their repentance It behoueth all that haue any sense of God to be carefull for their soules and to prepare them selues for the comming of that dreadfull daye Oure preparance consisteth in these thrée things whereof Christe him selfe warneth vs Mar. 13. Cauete Vigilate ●rate Beware watch pray The first is a caueat or a thing to take héede of for feare of that danger that may come thereby And what it is Christ had shewen a litle before False Christes sayth he and false Prophetes shall ryse and shall shevve signes and vvonders to deceiue if it vvere possible euen the verie elect Sed cauete but take heede beholde I haue shevven you all things before This is that we muste beware of in these latter dayes Of the like Christ putteth vs in mynd when he sayth in another place Bevvare of false Prophetes vvhich come vnto you in sheepes cloathing but invvardly they are rauening vvoulfes There can no more mischief and danger come to the people of God then by false and corrupt doctrine for without true fayth and religion no holynesse of lyfe séeme it to the worlde neuer so glorious can be acceptable in the sight of god Among these false teachers principally we haue to take héede of the Papist and of those shéepe skinnes wherewith he wrappeth him selfe least we be deceiued by them let vs lift vp his goodly apparell and we shall sée vnderneath the panche of a gréedie woulfe and the clawes of a cruell Lyon Bée not abashed then nor astonied when you heare the goodly names of the Catholike Church the greate multitude of suche as be of their opinion the long continuance of many yeres For if these had ben good groūds of mens consciences they might well haue serued for the Jewes and false teachers against the true Prophets of God in olde time and after for Annas and Cayphas against Christ him selfe and his Apostles For where were the Prophetes staine where was Christe put to death where were the Apostles persecuted and kylled was it not in Jerusalem the citie of God was it not among the Jewes the chosen people and in déede the churche of God had not they among them the lawe of God and his ordinances did not they crye against Jeremie the Temple of God the Temple of God is with vs we haue the couenant that God made to our forefathers euen as nowe the papistes doe alledge that the Church of God the Church of God is with thē they can not erre they haue the promises of Christ that his Spirit should neuer fayle them The false Prophets had a thousand for one that did folow the true Prophetes Yea Elias thought that he had bene left alone The Scribes and Pharises in the ende had a great number and in déede a generall consent in comparison of that litle number and sinall flocke that folowed Christe and his Apostles Therefore take héede of these things y you be not miscaried by them they are but lambe skinnes wherein the wolfe of Rome hydeth him selfe to deceiue thée Remēber that all which say they haue Abraham to their father are not by and by the true séede of Abraham Remember that the Scribes and Pharises sometime sit in Moses chayre and beare the countenance of the lawe of god Remember that Saint Paul telleth thée and doth giue thée warning that the sonne of perdition Antichrist himself shoulde in the latter dayes sit in the Temple that is the Churche of god Remember that the same Paule telleth for certeintie that in the latter dayes should come certeine teaching the doctrine of deuils hauinge their consciences marked with an hot iron forbidding to marrie and to eate such meats as God hath prepared to be receiued vvith thankesgiuing Consider whether the Pope hath forbidden Priests to marrie and denounced it a grieuous sinne if men doe eate flesh vpon certeine dayes and then gather whether they be the Churche of Christ or vnder that colour in déed the Synagogue of Antichrist Oh say they the doctrine of the Gospel now taught is a new doctrine neuer heard of in y Church before these late yeres This is not a sheepe skinne good people but it is a venimous tuske of a poysonous Bore with blasphemous lying striken into the Gospell of Christe thereby to wounde it and make it hatefull But the Gospel that we teache is the same Gospel that was first from the beginning by the Spirit of God reueiled to the Patriarkes and Prophets and after spred into the worlde by Christ himselfe and his Apostles So that our doctrine is as auncient as the Prophets as Christ himselfe as his Apostles yea as the worlde is auncient For it procéeded from God himselfe at the beginning when he spake to the Serpent and sayd That the seed of the vvoman should breake the head of the Serpent That is that the true Messiah should come of the séede of the woman and destroy the kingdome of siune and Satan This Gospell was renued vnto Abraham and confirmed with the seale of circumcision When he said In thy seede all the nations of the earth shal be blessed c. This Gospell was preached by Father Jacob in his death bedde saying This scepter shal not depart from Iuda c. Vntill Silo come he shal be the expectatiō of the Gentiles

whom when it pleased God in a vision to declare that state of the worlde that should be euen to the end thereof by the figure of the foure beastes he described y foure Empires that should follow one the other before the ende The Babylonians by a lyon whiche should be destroyed and eaten vp by the Beare of the Persians and that consumed and wasted by the foure Leopards of the Gretians and that rent and torne and trampled vnder foot by the terrible monster of the Romanes after which there is no mention made of any other Empire but onely that litle horne that grewe out of the Romanes Empire to great might and power by which is ment the king dome of Antichrist that shall fight against the Saints of God in the latter ende of the worlde Which kingdome of Antichrist now this many yeares hath shewen it selfe in the power of the Turke and of the Pops Now derely beloued waigh these things The Empire of the Babylonians continued not long after this vision but was subdued by the Persians The Empire of Persia continued 231. yeares and was conquered by Alexander and the Gretians The Gretian empire in Alexander and his successours deuided into foure kingdomes prospered about 300. yeres and after great and longe warres was consumed by the Romanes which in growing declyning hath now continued aboue a thousand yeres and an halfe and is come euen to the last pinche euen to the féete and toes mixed with brasse and claye as the same Daniel descriueth it Chap. 9. to note the weakenesse and small strength thereof in the ende For who séeth not nowe y the empire is almost nothinge and consisteth onely of a fewe free Cityes in Germanye For all the residue it hath left vnto the worlde as all men may sée the power of the Turke and of the Pope which both haue rysen and continued very neare about one time For Mahomet in Arabia and the Pope in Rome beganne their vsurpation within twelue yeres together Nowe immediately in the ende of the Romane Empire and power of Antichrist Daniell describeth the comming of Christ to iudgment And I beheld sayth Daniell vntill the thrones vvere set vp and the ancient of dayes did sit and so forth in suche sort as you shall after heare in the description of the laste iudgement Seing therefore experience of times hathe taught vs the trueth in the former part of this prophesie touching the rysing succession and decaye of other kingdomes we must néedes beléeue if we haue any Christian fayth in vs y the same spirit of God will performe the like trueth in the residue and that the ende of the worlde and the last iudgement shall folowe vpon the decaye of the Romane Empire and by the comming of our Sauiour Christ vtterly destroy and pull downe the power of Antichriste The seconde testimonie of the holy Scriptures for the aproching of the last daye in S. Paule to the Thessal Let no man deceiue you sayth he by any meanes For the Lorde shall not come except there come a falling avvay first and that the man of sinne be reuealed first the sonne of perdition what doth S. Paul meane thinke you by falling avvay vndoubtedly a great and wonderfull reuolting and falling from the fayth of Christ Nowe call to your remembrance that within a meane number of yeres after Christes ascention all the thrée partes of the worlde submitted them selues to the fayth of Christ as the hystories do euidently declare All Asia euen to the vttermost partes of the Indians All Affrike euen to the extreame borders of the Aethiopes All Europe without exception of any part Adde also the Iles about the mayne land among which we of this Realme of England are Conceiue wel in your mynde this general profession of Christian fayth that then was ouer all the earth and then viewe and consider in your myndes the state of Christianitie at this day and vndoubtedly you shal perceiue a maruellous reuolting and falling from the fayth of Christe to haue bene nowe a good many yeres The furthermost partes of Asia eastward fallen againe eyther to heathenishe Idolatrie or to such superstition as doth not much differ from it All the residue of Asia together with a great part of Affrike adde also no small portion of Europe vnder the Turke reuolted to the wicked blasphemie of Mahomet so that the countries of the world that nowe professe Christe are not the tenth part of them that before time haue bene christian Yea and among them that professe the christian religion in Europe for the more part a number of yeres haue bene caried away with the superstition and idolatrie of the Antichrist of Rome In so much that if Christe doe nowe come in comparison of the multitude of miscreants he shal find true that he spake in the Gospel vvhen the sonne of man shall come doest thou thinke he shall finde any fayth in the earth Seing therfore we sée now y general apostacy and reuolting from the fayth nowe in our time fallen out the want whereof principally S. Paul accounteth in his time to be the staye of Christes comming we must néedes be persuaded that it can not be farre off As touching the latter part of S. Paules wordes to the Thessal Of the reuealing of the man of sinne the sonne of perdition vvhich is an aduersarie and is exalted aboue all that is called God so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shevving him selfe that he is a God because the full discourse for the profe of the comming of this Antichriste woulde require a long processe and more then this time woulde beare for the tryall thereof call to your remembrance this briefe note That since the declination and decay of the Romane Empire for the space of certeine hundred yeres you haue séene euen in the church of God euen in Italy euen in the seate royall of the Empire of Rome a certeine power which vnder the pretence of holynesse hath aduanced it selfe aboue al kings and princes of the earth that hath claymed the full power of both swordes and to that purpose hath shewed it selfe in open procession the one day in his pontificall ornaments and the next in armour like a prince that hath also auaunted that he hath al power immediately from God and all kings of the earth by mediation from him that hath put the same in practise by deposing princes altring of titles at his pleasure in Arragon in Naples in Sicilie in Englād in Fraunce in the Empire it selfe and welnere in al places of Christendome that hath had Emperours Kings and Princes to holde his bridle to goe at his stirrop to kysse his féete to stande at the gates of his citie whole dayes together bare-footed and coulde not haue grace to come to his presence that hath driuen the noblest Prince in the earth to put his head vnder his féete and he in the meane time with outrageous blasphemie caused