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A06525	A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our dayes made by the right reuerend father and faithfull seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther ; concerning the comming of our Sauior Christ to Iudgement and the signes that go before the Last Day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospell appointed to be red in the church on the second Sonday in Aduent ; and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certaine notes in the margent.	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1570 (1570)	STC 16997.5; ESTC S2800	32,573	96

they shoot out their buds you see and know of your selues how that Sōmer is thē nigh at hand so likewise ye also whē see these thinges come to passe be sure that the kyngdome of GOD is nigh Doubtelesse this is a notable exposition which I my selfe could neuer inuent or apply vnto this purpose For who euer herd that the darkenyng of y Sunne and the Moone the destructiō of the heauē and earth the feare and tremblyng of men the ruine of the ayre water all creatures should be likened to the shootyng out of buds and y blossomyng of trees I would thinke rather that these thynges should bee lykened to a rough sharpe and very hard winter which with vntollerable cold destroyeth and kylleth all frutes and what soeuer groweth vpon the earth But our Sauiour Christ of all other the best interpreter and expounder of his word expoundeth these signes after an other sorte better to our comfort and consolation shewyng that those thynges which seeme terrible vnto vs are pleasaūt and beautifull to behold as if we see the Sunne and the Moone darkened the water and the wyndes stormy and tempestuous the mountaines ouerthrowē made equall with the valleyes he teacheth vs to say thankes be to God for now the pleasaunt som●…●…s at hād now we see the spryng of the leafe in some trees and other some to shoot out theyr buddes No man no reason no humane wisedome could thus interprete these signes terrible to behold that redemption and euerlastyng ioye should be signified thereby which vnto reason mans wisedome seeme rather to prognosticate death and all kind of destruction But seyug we haue learned this interpretation of such a notable scholemaster euē of him which sendeth them and therfore knoweth best how to expound thē therfore I say let vs learne it well accustome our selues vnto it that we may print it in our mindes the better to our comfort and that we may behold these signes and geue our indgement of them accordyng to the word of God and not according to reason and mans wisedome which is foolish and ●…ull of corruption which teacheth vs to shunne and bee afrayed of those things that in dede are pleasaunt ioyfull It will not gladly suffer vs to be hold all thinges darkened and to looke lowringly thunder lightenyng great stormes tēpestes are vnacceptable vnto it Notwithstanding a Christian mā ought not to be troubled therwith but take hold vpon Gods word whereby he openeth our myndes that as he interpreteth these thinges we may interprete them also knowyng therby y pleasantnes of sommer is now at hād and the earth will very shortly bryng forth an abundance of goodly lilies and swete roses most pleasāt to behold that is to lay that now after this filthy and wicked lyfe in the which we are tumbled and tossed with many miseries and calamities we shal be brought into the hauen of tranquillitie blessednes and all pleasure which neuer shall haue end For this is his will that as we must be new mē so we must haue new sences new cogitatiōs new vnderstandyng of thynges not behold any thyng with the eyes of our own reason as they seme vnto the world but with the eyes of faith and as they seme vnto God that we may the better fashiō our selues vnto that new lyfe to come which is inuisible which we hope for after the tribulation of this world And that we be not delighted with this temporall lyfe nor greued to depart out of it or to see the destruction of the world and all creatures therin of whom it is no time now to take pitie we ought rather to take pitie of the miserable Christiās both of them which presently are afflicted in the world and also of them which beyng departed sleepe in the graue and desire to see the glorious day of their resurrection Euen as the yerbes which in the wynter tyme lye hid in the earth and the trees the iuyce therof beyng kept in with cold can not spryng and bryng forth buds blossomes and leaues but looke for the spryng at which tyme shootyng out their buds they florish and are liuely to behold so we in lyke maner ought with ioy to looke for the iast day saying Now the sharpenes of wynter is ended the pleasaunt sommer is come yea such a sommer which neuer shall haue end At the commyng wherof not onely the Saintes but also the Angels reioyce and are glad Pea all creatures after a sort looke for it and desire it earnestly For heauen earth Sunne Starres ayre and all creatures can no lenger beare the wickednes of the world which they are constrayned to behold vnto whom it is greuous to serue to the vse or rather to the abuse of sinners are an ayde to the wickednes of the deuil And therefore they would gladly bee deliuered of thys fylthy bondage and be made a new heauen and a new earth as Peter and the Prophet Esay sayth in y which onely rightuousnes shall dwell For iniquitie and the wi●…kednes of man passeth all measure so that it can not be suffred any longer And therfore all thynges are moued as now we see crying as it were vnto God for their deliueraunce For this cause our Sauiour Christ concludeth after this sort So you when you see these thynges come to passe know that the kyngdome of God is at hand Verely I say vnto you this age shall not passe vntill all thynges be fulfilled heauen and earth shall passe but my word shall not passe As though he should say you haue prayed after this sorte Let thy kyngdome come deliuer vs from euill Therfore now know you for a certainty euen as certainely as my worde is true and euerlastyng that when you see these sygnes your prayer is heard that the kyngdome of God shall come euen as you haue desired and all sinne shall haue an end and be consumed c. Therfore when I come in the cloudes withall my aungels with great glory in flaming fyre wherwith all creatures shall melt and be consumed and all thinges shall geue alyght and shyne after a straunger and wonderfull sorte your bodyes shal be glorified so that they shall passe the purenes of the ayre and all the army of heauen shyne they neuer so bright and shall raigne with me for euer in vnspeakable glory Finally you shall see the wicked vnder your feete naked in the earth in perpetuall shame tremblyng and shakyng beyng accursed and cast downe headlong into hell Now to make an end after this sort as I haue declared vnto you the signes of the last day must be expounded vnto the Christian people that it may appeare they signifie no harme but marueilous ioy great profite and commodity As for the Astronomers let them interprete them to signifie nothyng els but warre murder and vtter destruction let them feare and tremble which haue and desire nothyng but a temporall lyfe

commyng that is to say to comfort the faythful to confirme the weake and to instruct the ignoraunt in diuers necessary pointes of doctrine or at the least to geue them a watchword of our Lordes commyng that they may now at the length cease from sinityng theyr felow seruants and from eatyng and drynkyng with the drunken and may make them selues ready with oyle in their lampes to receiue hym that when the trumpet bloweth and the bridgrome commeth we may all folow hym into hys euerlastyng tabernacle therein to lyue with God the father the sonne and the holy ghost in euerlastyng ioy To whom be all prayse honor and glory world without ende Amen Anno 1569. March 22. T. B. THe places of Scripture that appertayneth to this Sermon folowyng are noted in the margent to the end that the Readers accordyng to the example of those men mentioned in the Actes of the Apostles may examine the Scriptures and try whether it bée so or no as the author hereof sayth and readyng them they may finde many moe Sentences besides for the comfort and confirmation of their fayth ¶ The Gospell for the second Sonday in Aduent THere shal be signes in the Sunne in the Moone and in the Starres and in the earth the people shal be at theyr wittes end thorow dispayre The Sea and the water shall rore and mēs harts shall fayle them for feare and for lookyng after those thynges which shall come on the earth For the powers of heauen shall moue and then shall they see the sonne of man come in a cloude with power and great glory When these thynges begyn to come to passe then looke vp and lift vp your heades for your redemption draweth nere And he shewed them a similitude saying behold the figge tree and al other trees When they shoote forth theyr buds ye see and know of your selues that sommer is then nigh at hand So lykewyse ye also When you see these thinges come to passe ▪ be sure that the kyngdome of God is nigh Verely I say vnto you this generation shall not passe vntill all be fulfilled heauen and earth shall passe but my word shall not passe The Sermon or exposition of the Gospell IN this dayes Gospel Christ our Lord shew eth vs what shal be the estate and conditiō of the world whē all things draw to an end Wherby we may know when the great and horrible day shall appeare in the which Christ our Lord hym selfe shall come openly to Iudgement that no mā nede to wauer or doubt of the matter For he sheweth playnly the signes that shal be sene in the last age and shal go before the last day as tokens therof because it cānot be chosen but that so straūge yea that the last chaūge of the whole world should be declared by many and great tokēs seyng that much lesse alterations of countreys and natiōs haue ben signified by signes and wonders goyng before Bycause this prefēt Gospell hath ben before tyme sufficiently declared so that now it is well knowen vnto all men I mynde not to shew the doctrine that therof may be gathered but after an other maner and fashion to handle it to the glory of God our consolation For therfore is it put in writtyng and made manifest by preachyng that it may serue to our cōfort and to the encrease of fayth and hope in vs which professe Christ and beleue in hym notwithstandyng there is good cause why it may be a terror vnto the other sort of mē I meane the wicked vnbeleuers whose destruction these signes do portend Who in dede are nothyng moued with them at all but with security of mynde do contemne them Therfore commendyng them to our God theyr Iudge which shall come and reward them accordyng to theyr desertes that by experiēce they may alwayes feele that which now they neither beleue nor regard in handlyng the Gosspell we wil haue litle consideration of them but wil make it frutfull vnto our selues lest we should suffer it in vayne to be put in writyng and should leese the frute commodity thereof Which if we consider well we shall perceiue that it contayneth matter very comfortable and ioyfull seruyng much for our commodity Which consolation and comfort is very nedeful for vs seyng the signes of them selues are very terrible and as I may say horrible to behold Moreouer Christiās as they are at other tymes fearefull enough of base courage so whē they see the indignatiō and wrath of God towardes mākind the waggyng of a leafe is able to make them amased and almost dead for feare cōtrarywise the wicked are more secure and hard harted and are moued with no signes be they neuer so great and horrible Therfore this thyng seemeth not to fall out indifferently and as reason would for they which chiefly should be afrayd whom God by his signes doth terrible threaten they I say haue hartes of horne stone and yron so that they regarde them as thoughe they dyd nothyng appertayne vnto them what soeuer wrath of God was to come beyng euen now at hand they do forewarne shewe Contrarywise they which ought not to bee moued but rather reioyce when they see these signes and tokens as vnto them they do not portend any wrath or displeasure of God but fauour consolation they I say feare more thē nedeth and can scarsely lift vp theyr harts to cōceaue such swete and comfortable cogitations as thereby occasion is offered Now to come to my matter there are two thyngs chiefly to be noted in this Gospell The one is that our Sauiour reckoneth the signes in order which go before the last day which being fulfilled we may know for a certainty that the day is euen hard at hand The other note is that he sayth those signes shal be a consolation and a comfort to hys Christian children so that therby they may be moued to looke for hys commyng with a mery and cherefull countenance The first signe sayth he shall appeare from heauen in the sunne y moone and the starres that is to say as Mathew doth expoūd it The sunne shal be darkened and the moone shall not geue her light and the starres shall fall from heauen c. Moreouer vpon the earth the people shal be at theyr wittes end thorow dispayre shal be in such perplexitye that they shall not know whether to go or where to abyde their hartes shall fayle thē for feare of those thynges which are like to come vpon them Agayne signes shal be seene in the Sea in the Waters so that all creatures and the powers of heauen shall moue there shal be such an alteration that the world shall seeme by and by to haue an end and the last day shall seeme hard at hand Here I will not greatly contend with any mā but will leaue it to the consideration of my Christian brethrē whether the signes in the

and pleasaunt dayes in this world But let vs be of good cheare as men that are renued and regenerate in Christ thorow the holy Ghost And euen as he is the Lord of heauen and earth and all creatures therein so we by hym are the Lordes of all signes what soeuer semeth terrible to the eyes of mā neither can any thing hurt vs n●… although it take away ou●… life For our lyfe and conuersation is not here but we looke for an other lyfe when our body shal be deliuered which lyfe is now hid with Christ in heauen through fayth as S. Paul sayth but shortly shal be reuiued before all the world in immortall and euerlastyng bryghtnes When both in body and soule we shall raigne with God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be all prayse honour and glory world without ende Amen ¶ The Signes that were geuen to the inhabitantes of Hierusalem before their destruction A Whole yeare before the commyng of Vespas●…an to 〈◊〉 the C●…e right ouer it was sene a blasing Starre lyke vnto a sword which the common people dyd interpret to be a token of their deliueraunce out of bondage into the which they were brought by the Romanes Before the warre begon at the feast of vnleauened br●…ad which was then the viij day o●… Aprill there was sodenly sene at nyne of the clocke at night for the space of halfe an houre such a great light about the Alter and the Temple that it semed to be mydday At y same feast a Cow beyng brought to bee sacrificed brought forth a Lambe in the myddest of the Church The Cast gate of the Temple beyng of brasse and shut euery nyght but not without the strength of twenty men beyng locked ●… barred with diuers lockes and barres was sene at v●… of the clocke at night and as Egesippus testifieth diuers nyghtes to open it selfe without the hand of men This thyng was thought of the most parte to bée a token of good lucke and that the gates of their enemyes should open vnto them of theyr owne accorde But some that were of th●… wiser sorte sayd it was a token that the strength of the Temple should be dissolued without the hand of man that it myght be spoyled of theyr enemyes and destroyed A few dayes after theyr solemne ●…eastes there appeared in the cloudes before Sunne settyng a vision of charets and hostes of armed men where with all the Cities of Iurye the countrey there about were inuaded and ouerrunne At the feast called Pentecost the Priestes entryng in the nyght into the inner Temple according to theyr maner to do theyr diuine seruice first they perceaued a noyse or rushelyng after they heard a voyce saying often Let vs departe hence let vs depart hence One called Iesus the sonne of Anani a base man and of low degree foure yeares before the warre the Citie beyng in great wealth and quyetnes commyng to the celebration of one of theyr solemne feastes called the feastes of tabernacles went vp into the Temple and sodenly cryed out with a loude voyce saying A voyce from the East a voyce from the West a voyce from the foure wyndes a voyce agaynst Hierusalem and the tēple a voyce agaynst new maryed mē and new maried women a voyce against all this people crying thus day and night he went thorough all the stréetes of the Citie Certaine of the chief men beyng a●…ed and fearyng that it was a token of misfortune tooke the mā and whipped him But he whiles he was beaten cried styll as before and beyng still beaten vntill a man myght sée hys bare bones hée ●…er desired them to let hym go neither ●…yd hee shed any teares for the matter but cryed still at euery strype Wo wo vnto the inhabitauntes of Hierusalem and at the length dimissed as a man out of hys wittes he cryed still as before especially on the solemne feast dayes vntill the slege of the Citie at which tyme he entryng vp on the wall and crying wo wo vnto the City the Temple and the people he cryed at the last w●… vnto my selfe and was cast do wne dead with a stone hurled to hym by the enemyes out of one of theyr engyns They were nothyng moued with these sygnes but thinkyng they should haue victory ouer theyr enemyes resisted them vntill both they and theyr Citie was destroyed accordyng to the wordes of our Sauiour Luc. 19. 43. ¶ Signes and wonders signifiyng alteration or misery and calamity of certaine Countreys and Nations or of great Personages ABout the yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3458. Tarquinius surnamed Superbus the seuēth Kyng of the Romanes was depriued of his kyngdome by hys subiectes and thrust out by force of armes and the state of gouernaunce altered from the gouernement of one monarche vnto ij yearely offices called Consuls a little before which time in signification thereof as Historiographers do write a Dogge did speake and a Serpent ●…id barke T. Plinius lib. 8. Cap. 41. The yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3538. the light of the Sunne was so taken away by an ●…lipse séene in Grece that a man might sée the Starres aswell at midday as at midnight Shortly afterwardes folowed y warre called the warre of Peloponesus which continued seuen and twenty yeares Thucidides The yeare from the begynnyng of the world 3698. at Rome and the countrey there about bloud in stede of water gushed out of the sprynges and milke from heauen lyke raine Shortly after followed the warre of Carthage agaynst the Romanes which cost the lyues of many thousandes Orosius li. 4. Cap. 5. Anno Domini 1452. Constantinople in Grece where in those dayes was the Emperours Palace was besieged ouercome of the great Turke called Mahomet the second of that name who when he had gottē the victory vsed most beastly cruelty towardes the Christians both men women and children old and young rich and poore The Emperour beyng slayne hys head was set vpon a speare caryed round about the Citie the more to greue his subiectes hys wife and daughter with many noble women were rauished and after cut in péeces all the noble men were slayne the common people were made bond slaues and many other such lyke vilanies were done bysides the bryngyng of the whole countrey of Grece into hys owne dominion A little before which tyme was sene at Comus a Citie in Fraunce towardes Sunne settyng a great multitude of dogges caryed in the ayre and after thē droues of diuers kyndes of beastes also men armed diuersely some with speares and shieldes who were pursued of a great army of horsemen beyng deuided into diuers cōpanyes For the space of thrée houres the army séemed to be settyng forth at the last came forth a tall and huge man fearefull to behold sittyng vppon a terrible horse séemyng to bée the Capitayne of the host and many such straunge thynges appeared vntill nyght when they