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A78063	A sermon preached on the 30th. of January, 1683/4. Being an anniversary for the martyrdom of King Charles the First. / By John Buttler, B.D.	Buttler, John.	1684 (1684)	Wing B6274A; ESTC R173343	29,365	40

Evils do rather increase and heighten the Sorrow while they have no tydings to tell but of grievous Mischief and Miseries continually threatning and yet can they not chuse but look up still though they can behold no Comfort After this rate was the Church of Judah found when the Lord beheld the State thereof as of People that hear nothing but Voices Jer. 30. 5 6 7. of trembling where is nothing but fear without hopes of Peace Wherefore saith the Lord do I see every Man with his hands on his Loyns as a Woman in Travail as if Man also should Travail with Child and all Faces are turned into paleness Alas for that day is great so that none is like it It is the time of Jacobs trouble This was when the Caldeans oppressed and over-ran the whole Kingdom of Judea but at that time they were delivered Even such are the Calamities that are now approaching upon the World and some Nations perhaps may escape with small harms and others may be safe enough But some where and on some certain Nations these great Tribulations the like whereof were never before knovvn are novv like to happen in a short space For now the Powers of Heaven are shaken as our Saviour saith in my Text For the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken And this is the third thing the Cause and Ground vvork both of the Signs and the Miserie 's forevvarned The Povvers of Heaven are either Efficiently or Instrumentally so Efficiently and Principally are God himself and after him his Holy Angels the Povvers of Heaven Instrumentally the Sun Moon and Stars and all the Hosts of Heaven are the Povvers and Strength of Heaven by vvhich according to Nature God Acts upon Earth Novv God and his Angels are too high to be shaken but their Instruments may be shaken and that either vvhen God shall shake them as a Man shakes his Weapon when he brandisheth his Sword to strike therewith And thus God shakes the Powers of Heaven when the Sun Moon and Stars seeming to dash one against another either by Body or Aspect do make even the Earth and all its Inhabitants to shake and tremble at their Motions And here also the Potentates on Earth in a sense called the Powers of Heaven because the God of Heavens Agents are also shaken by the greater Powers of Heaven above And thus the late gaeat Comet and the great Eclipses and the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter now in being are the shaking of Heaven our Saviour speaks of And after these it s to be feared many Prodigies and Signs will still appear more and more both in Heaven and Earth until the forewarned Distress of Nations doth come upon them Now what these Comets Eclipses and Conjunctions do signifie belongs not to this place or time to be Treated on nor yet do I think my self concerned to say how near or how far off those threatened Calamities are unto the Nations Only supposing the worst give me leave by help of the context to describe them so far as Gods Word gives us warning and so I shall come to Application Now to this purpose we are to note that at this time of my Text our Saviour is upon Answer to three Questions As 1. When shall these things be meaning the Destruction of Jerusalem vvhich a little afore Christ had been Treating upon 2. What shall be the Sign of Christs Mal. 24. 3. coming that is by his Vicegerent to deliver the Jews out of Captivity And 3. What shall be the Signs of the end of the World Unto all vvhich our Saviour ansvvers comprehensively as if vvhat is the Sign of the one shall be the same of all three And look hovv it is like to be in that day vvhen the vvhole World of Heaven and Earth are to Perish by Fire and be Destroyed even so after the same rate shall it happen vvhen Jerusalem is to be Destroyed and when the Gentile Nations are many or most of them to be distressed For at each of all these three times shall be great Tribulation such as the like was never known before besides or since excepting the very Paralels Of these the Destruction of Jerusalem is past the Calamity of the Gentile Nations even now waits them And the end of the World shall come in its time But will some say in what particular manner shall these things be to which I answer in a three Fold respect 1. In respect of the Cause moving to bring on such Calamities upon the Nations with Gods Vengeance for Great and Crying Sins For Says our Saviour These Luke 21. 22 be the Days of Vengeance that all things that are written may be fulfilled Before Jerusalems and the Jews fall Jesus the Christ was most wickedly murdered by his own People at whose hands he had most singularly and incomparably well deserved And for Vengeance because of that Death came up the Fatal Tribulation of those Days And now is expected that the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled That is till They or some of them shall prevail and accomplish to scatter the Power of the holy People then shall their v. 24. Vengeance come The Turks are at this time and for many Years have been Lords of the Holy Land and do Tread Jerusalem under Foot and do keep it away that the Jews the Right Owners cannot possess it at this Day they are a Barbarous sort of People that have neither Law nor Gospel nor any thing of good Education to help their Government and therefore it Pleases God to bear with their Rude Manners so much the more But yet having a Law written in their Hearts their Conscience bearing witness and their Thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another When they break out in Extravagancies against all Laws of Nature and Conscience then will God judg them and the Jews shall be restored And for these Extravagancies the Jews have a long time tarried But now so it was that on the Year spoken of by Daniel the Prophet namely in the Month of August in the Year 1648 Loe the grand Council of that Kingdom namely the Mufti who is esteemed their high Priest and as it were the wisest Man in all their Kingdom together with the Grand Viziar and all the great Bassa's who made up the great Divan or Grand Council Conspired together to Murder their Lord and Emperour Sultan ●i●ar●s ●ife of I●r● Ibrahim the Grand Seigniour unto whom they were but Slaves or Common Subjects And accordingly they Summoned him with a Writ of Justice called a Stelfa before them to Answer his Misdemeanours which Writ he not Obeying though Twice or Thrice repeated They Condemned him to Death and exposed him to be first imprisoned and afterwards Murdered And accordingly it was done unto him And now therefore say we the Turks in their kind have done unto their King as once the Jews did unto Christ and by thus doing have scattered the Power of the

time Unusual shapes such as extraordinary big or small or when Crosses or other Signs appear in the Bodys of either Signs in the Stars are when new Stars Comets or unusual Meteors do appear and that of horrible Colours shapes quantity and bigness and do last long or do mischeif Great Conjunctions and Constellations and Crouds of Planets in mutual Opposition or Conjunction or shews in the Heavens of Armies or Monsters c. Signs upon Earth are Monstrous Births Apparitions of Ghosts strange Thunders Hail-Storms Frosts Earthquakes moving of Mountains Trees Houses or Towns prodigious Winds c. Strange Voices heard and not known whence they come Raining of Bloud Wool Wheat Stones or such like Breaking forth of new Wells Rivers and such like Now these things are wont to be aboundantly more plenteous in Pagan Countrys then in Christian because where God teacheth by his word there is the less need of the warning by strange Prodigies And 2ly because where we know to despise Signs and Wonders they pass over the less noted or headed but where Men do most admire Sathan makes shew oftentimes of greater wonders then really they are and counterfeit strange Signs Before the destruction of Jerusalem was seen a Flaming Comet in form of a Sword which hung over Jerusalem a whole Year Armies were seen Fighting in the Air A Voice was heard in the Temple saying Let us go hence The great Gate that Twelve Men were usually aiding to open and shut in the Night time opened of its own accord And what was most of all one Jesus Son of Ananel for four Years together went about the City continually pronouncing Woes against the City Country and Temple and no Whipping or Punishment would make him cease Now never were more greivous Calamities then befel that place at that time And yet we Read of greater and more grievous Signes before the Falling down of the Northern Inundations about the Year of 400 vvhen the Goths Vandals Hunns and such like barbarous People over ran the Roman Empire And far vvorse before the Massacre of Romans in Britain in Neroes Time And the Massacre of Romans by Mithridates and the taking of Rome by the Gaules And yet before the Fearful Massacre at Paris in 72 vve Read of very mean Prodigies boding thereof The truth is there Lurks much of Learning in the Case Prodigies and strange Signs are Significant but they require an Interpretor there is a curiosity in the Signification more then every body knovvs only thus far vve knovv that such things are Direful vvhere-ever the danger Lights and in common Threatnings all Men are to bevvare Now to take a view of the prodigies of our own Age at present depending with their Woes looking in our Faces are first a prodigious Hailstorm in London and Ten Miles round on the 18th of May 1680. The like whereof has not been known of many Ages in Novemb. and December of the same Year followed the prodigious Comet in form of a Spit of great length which coming out of the South appeared for Twelve Months and made abode with us in our Northern Latitude for some Months February 11th 1681. Was a total Eclipse of the Moon Fatal and Bloody in 4° of Virgo August 1682. Was another Comet in the Northern Hemisphere which shone sometime and moved Southwards In October came up the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter which yet Reigns in the Second Decanate of Leo and on December the 5th a fearful Torch appeared double which coming from North-East and South-West met in Mid-Heaven and dashing at each other vanished with a great blaze of Light And lastly on Jan. 17. vvas a visible Eclipse of the Sun in the 8th of Aquarius almost Total in the Western Horison And besides these are talkt of several Visions seen in the Ayr and noyse of Drums beating heard no Man knovvs from vvhence and strange Prophesies of Destruction and much Mischief attending us and great Rumours of Wars every vvhere But the Pulpit is no place to tell strange stories in I shall omit therefore the crovvd of Heresays of Mock Suns and Moons and several Vapours besides relations of nevv Springs and Rivers broken out vvhich never vvere vvont to shevv themselves but against times of extremity And novv vvhat these things signifie belong not unto this place to decide but do rather lead me to give vvarning that in such cases every body do fear the vvorst and the best vvill mend it self That is God sends these vvarnings that vve may repent of our sins and in expectation of danger to stick the closer unto our God in all holiness of Conversation And this the rather because in the next place vve are forevvarned that after these Signs shall follovv Distress of Nations with Perplexity the Sea and the Waves roaring Mens Hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth Here in this Prophesie have vve first described the thing forevvarned Distress of Nations Intimating that after the Signs aforesaid not all the vvhole World but yet Nations several Nations vvhomsoever it may concern shall be greatly distressed that is they shall suffer great Assaults and shall be much Tottered and Shaken or Overturned and shall have no Supporters or Assisters to preserve from a fall or to raise up being down Or in short They shall have so great troubles that they will not know which way to turn them in order to deliverance 2. Is described the height of this distress that is with Perplexity Intimating that their Calamities shall be like unto a Line intangled and knit into so many knots that it cannot be undone They feeling themselves lock't up and fenced about with abundance of Dangers threatning and yet so puzled with Mischief upon Mischief as if the untying of one knot were the making of three 3. Is set forth the Form and Shape of the Distress as being like the hideous Waves of the Sea Roaring Raging and Threatning and Foming with Salt Froth as if they would Swallow and Devour all before them For as the Sea in rough Water is fearful to behold and dangerous to be trusted such are the dreadful approaching Calamities 4. Is shewed the Effects of this Distress 1. In Mens Hearts which shall fail for fear And 2ly In their Eyes which shall increase the fears of the Heart by seeing and beholding the Miseries as they approach nearer and nearer and the great Mischief which they do The Spirit of a Man saith Solomon will bear its Infirmities Pro 18. 14. but a wounded Spirit who can bear The Heart is the support of a Mans Spirit and so long as the Heart holds up stout and confident it carries him off through many temptations but if a Mans Heart fail him then all his Spirits break and evaporate into meer Air and Emptiness And the Heart failing Man lifts up his Eyes as if they should help him and yet they by seeing and beholding the great Clouds of approaching