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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12705	A sermon preached at Cheanies the 14. of September, 1585, at the buriall of the right honorable the earle of Bedforde, By Thomas Sparke Doctor of Divinitie	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1594 (1594)	STC 23023; ESTC S114843	60,544	120

on the earth to euerie Nation Kindred Toungue and People saying with a lowde voice Feare God giue glorie to him for the houre of his iudgemēt is come worship him that made heauē and earth the Sea the fountaines of waters and then in causing him to see another Angell following saying It is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great citie For shee made all nations to drinke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and thirdly in causing him to see and heare a third Angell following the other two saying with a loude voice If any man worshippe the beast and his image and receiue his marke in his foreheade or hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God yea of the pure wine which is powred into the cup of his wrath and hee shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy Angels and before the Lambe and the smoke of their torment shal ascend euermore and they shall haue no rest day nor night which worship the beast and his image and whosoeuer receiueth the Print of his name Wherein in effect is shewed as it is also written 2. Thes 2. that after Antichrist shall haue shewed himselfe in his full then yet when God shall see it time that he would by the spirit of his mouth that is by the effectuall preaching againe of the Gospel which Antichrist had smothered bring him to a desperate consumption Which once beeing brought to passe of the great mercie of the Lorde towards his church by this light thē so come into the world shining therin the Lord teacheth here by the voice of the 3. Angel that as many as be desirous to escape eternal damnatiō should in any case so seperate themselues from Antichrist his religiō that neither in forhead nor hand they bear his mark that is that neither openly nor secretly they be any longer fauorers of him and his abhominations And this more plainly after chap. 18. vpon occasion of a reuelation like vnto this which he had of the fall of the kingdome of Antichrist he doth warn vs of by a voice from heauē saying Go out of her my people that ye be not partakers in her sins that ye receiue not of her plagues Which admonition Iohn by the spirite of Prophesie foreseeing would take place in a number that thereupon Antichrist and his confederates would take occasion of great griefe anger seeing so their kingdomes to decay he bursteth out into these words saying Here is the patience of the Saints here are they that keep the cōmandements of God the faith of Iesus As who should say I foresee that when these thinges shoulde come to passe which the Lord hath foreshewed by the voices of these three Angels shall then they that leaue Antichrist to cleaue to Christ and forsake his abhominable superstition to imbrace the sinceritie of the Gospell shall maruellously bee assaulted by Antichrist and his to reclaime them againe by al meanes both faire and foule sweete and subtile sowre and violent insomuch that they then shall stād neede of perfect patience For if it were possible the deuises and meanes which he will vse to repaire his kingdome againe withal will bee such that the very elect should be seduced as Christ hath foretold Mat. 24.24 Wherupon the words of my text follow where incoragemēt is giuē to al men that shal liue to see Antichrist and his treacherie by the preaching again of the gospell thus detected brought to his consumption to imbrace the doctrine of the Gospell and to leaue his yea and constantly to perseuere both in the profession of their hatred and defiance of his abominations though neuer so vniuersally liked before yet stil the better to deceiue offered in a golden cup and also in their loue liking of the sincerity of the truth of the gospel though neuer so much slaundred by his to be a new doctrine heresie and persecuted also For so far off shall it bee that ye shall loose anie thing saith the Lord vnto such in my text if you take this course quite to forsake Antichrist and leane onely vnto and vppon Christ that when hee hath doone his woorst which is but to kill your bodies and so to cause your soules to flit the sooner out of them that I assure you without all doubt you shall immediately thence-foorth bee blessed in that all manner of woe and paine shall bee ended to you and besides your sincere profession holy cōuersation must bee rewarded with ioy vnspeakeable felicitie in heauen Be therefore of good courage the light shining amongest you againe imbrace it and walke in it haue no longer either secretly or openly any further fellowshippe with the workes of darkenesse if you haue you haue heard the thirde Angell tell you that then therefore ye shal be euerlastingly accursed and condemned But if you haue refused them and will liue and die in the sincere profession and beleefe of the trueth of the Gospell whatsoeuer meanes Antichrist shall vse to drawe you backe againe vnto him I say vnto you and I say it most earnestly you shal be for euer blessed and happie My text therfore commeth in as a preoccupation to take awaie from al such as should fall from Antichrist to Christ by the preaching of the Gospell all obiections whatsoeuer can or may arise in their mindes to make them wauer or go backe againe vnto him And for asmuch as the Lord saw that these would be many yea and that in shew so forcible to a man consulting with flesh bloud that he should euen therwith be often amased you see right honorable as I haue said that not without verie great cause is this proposition tending to their comforce and strengthening vttered and recorded in such sort and maner as you haue heard Wherefore whensoeuer there ariseth any reason or motion in our mindes to draw vs backe frō the sincerity of the Gospell to take again the marke of the beast either in our forehead or hand then to strengthen our selues to withstand all such let vs make our recourse vnto this place and well wey this point that here is damnation flatly denoūced to all such as after the sound of the gospell againe reuolt to Antichrist and that there is most certainly saluatiō and blisse promised to those that refuse to doe it and choose rather to lose their liues The diuision Now in the proportiō it self thus vpō this occasion vttered we haue to cōsider two things principally that is who they be of whō the Lord therein speaketh what it is that he speaketh of such The first is expressed in these words They that die in the Lord the later in these Are blessed thenceforth euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labors their works accōpany thē Wherof orderly nowe I am to speake as the text offereth occasiō as the time wil permit me Though this particle