Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07087	A second sound, or vvarning of the trumpet vnto judgement Wherein is proued, that all the tokens of the latter day, are not onelie come, but welneere finished. With an earnest exhortation, to be in continuall readinesse. By Anthonie Marten sewer of her Maiesties most honorable chamber.	Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1589 (1589)	STC 17491; ESTC S107009	43,965	86

of swearing is so continually accustomed in your mouths and the name of God and of his holy members is so abused in your actions as he can no longer indure the wickednesse thereof but wil hasten himselfe vnto iudgement Now if these sinnes besides manie others that I might recite doe so abound at this day in the hearts of men and doe breake out so mightily in their actions as the things themselues declare that the day of iudgment is at hand what shall we say of the sinne of couetousnesse the roote and welspring of all other mischiefes Wherein men at this day doe so farre exceed the measure of our forefathers as the later wee are borne the more corruption we haue receiued the neerer to the day of the Lord the lesse affection haue we to heauenly things and the more desire of worldlie vanities And albeit this sinne of coueting bee set downe as a capital crime in the holy Scriptures yet do we make small account of the same Howbeit if the children of Israel fled before their enimies Iosu 7. onely for the couetousnesse of Achan and that Achan himselfe was iudicially and formally executed because he had hidden to his owne vse some thinges that were accursed if Nabal the Carmelite for his couetous minde 1. Sam. 25. in denying some sustenance vnto Dauid and his seruants in time of necessitie was striken by God that he died finally if Gehezi the seruant of Elizeus 4. Kings 5. was punished with a foule leprosie for requiring and taking but a small gifte of Naaman the Sirian whome his Master had frankly freely a litle before healed of the same disease what deserueth the vnsatiable mind of Christians in our time that without all measure or ende without feare of God without regard of religioÌ„ with out remorse of coÌ„science without sense of other meÌ„s griefes be it right or wrong whether it coÌ„cerne God or the Church the Prince or the Commonweale the father or the sonne neighbour or straunger friend or foe life or death if it may turne to our owneprofit commoditie we seeke by all manner of meanes to attaine therevnto though we die for it in this life and be sure of damnation in the life to come without all remorse of conscience or anie care of restitution Howbeit all this commeth to passe that the word of God may not be frustrate which saith that in the latter day iniquitie shall abound and the loue towardes God and man shall decaie And the abundance of all sinne doth grow from this verie roote of coueting greedinesse of riches But in verie deede the meanes that this sinne hath had to come to such ripenesse in these our dayes haue been farre greater than euer in anie Age before For euen since the time that it pleased God to shewe foorth all other signes and tokens which hee had promised to come against the ende of the world what wayes haue men attempted what artes haue they deuised to fulfill their greedie appetite and desire Be there anie lands that they haue not searched or anie seas that they haue not sayled Bee there anie dangers that they haue not ventured Is there anie colde or heate that they haue not indured Is there anie world that they haue not compassed anie myne that they haue not opened anie bloud that they haue not spilled nay anie people that they haue not destroyed to attaine to their desire Doe they not trauell more willinglie more often and farther from the vppermost face of the earth to the nethermost part of the same from the Sunne rising to the Sunne setting from the South to the North and to all the endes of the world and all for the insatiable desire of golde siluer redde claie and white than they woulde doe for the sauegard of their owne life And yet the more they haue the more they want the more they want the more they couet In such sort as if the earth and sea were emptied of their treasures I suppose that they woulde seeke to Heauen for temporall riches which they cannot beelead vnto for the saluation of their soules Wherefore this vice of couetousnesse is now so primie full as it craueth an ende and dissolution of the world Now come wee to the last token and restimonie of the comming of Christ namelie That the Gospell shal be preached in all the world for a witnes vnto all nations and then shall the ende come As I wrote before that the reuealing of Antichrist and man of sinne which sitteth in the Temple of God should be the first token of that secoÌ„d comming of Christ so the preaching of the Gospell ouer all the world both by the circumstance of the Euangelicall historie and by the consequence of the thinges themselues must of necessitie bee the last token before his comming And this is also confirmed by Iohn in the Reuelation when he saith Apoc 14. That he sawe an Angell flie in the midst of heauen hauing the euerlasting gospell to preach to all nations kindreds and people and saying Giue glorie to God for the hower of his iudgment is come And immediatelie after this preaching of the word an other Angell crieth Babylon is falne that great Citie is falne that made all Nations drinke of the Cup of her fornication For if there bee no other way to make Babylon to fall to reueale Antichrist the enimie of Christ and to banish the Apostasie of the Church procured by the same Antichrist but the preaching of the word and free course of the Gospek theÌ„ is there also no other way to inlarge the kingdom of Christ to gather the Saints of God into one but onely the free course and publication of the Gospell which by litle and litle shall consume as it hath gebun the spirite of error and apostasie of the Church till the brightnes of Christes presence haue vtterly destroyed the same al the authors abettors thereof Wherfore whatsoeuer other tokens shal be at the verie comming of Christ as no doubt but ther shal be many both in the Sunne and Moone and starres and in al the creatures of God as behoueth in so great an alteration consummation of the worlde Mat. 24. Mark 13. and as Christ himselfe hath most effectually set downe in his holy word yet this publishing of the Gospel in all the world shall vndoubtedly be the very last token before his comming as it is euidently set down by the holy Ghost himself when he saith And then shal the ende come And when the Angels after preaching of the word said Apoc 14. The houre of iudgement is come thrust in thy sythe and reape for the haruest is ripe As if he should say When Antichrist of Rome which exalteth himselfe aboue me shal be reuealed to be the principal head that hath caused so great a falling away from the truth in my Church hee shall trouble and persecute you to the death he shall make

many hundreth yeares before neuer heard of All which things since they most and chiefly happened or began about the time that the Gospell in our age was reuiued by preaching and when the kingdome of Christ began to be restored they bee manifest tokens of the ende of the world Hath not these many and mightie Kingdomes of England Scotland Denmarke Swethland Poland Germanie Belgica and a great part of the large kingdome of Fraunce all which be as much as the rest of Christendome retired themselues and been reclaymed within this space from the Romish bondage and from Antichristianitie to the true worshipping of Christ by beleeuing of the Gospell preached vnto them Was not the Arte and skill of Printing deuised by Christians and specially practised in our time by the meanes wherof though not only yet chiefly all other Religions in the world are found to bee most shamefull and Idolatrous and only the true and sincere worshipping of Christ magnified and extolled in all the world Were not all the learned tongues and languages renued by Christians in our time from a rude barbarisme wherein they had many ages been a sleepe to an excellent and perfect fourme both of speaking and writing Is not the desire of Christians in our time more earnestly bent to seeke a perfection of all Arts and Sciences and a more exquisite forme of Religion then euer was in any age before vs since the sincere times of the Primitiue Church Were not all the order and maner of Instruments and habiliments of warre and warfare in our age wel neere contrarie to that it was before especially by the deuise of gunnes which the deuill together with his deliuerance out of bondage deuised for the speedie destruction of mankind and great effusion of bloud all making way to the second comming of Christ our King Was not the finding out of the newe or as I may say of the nether world by the indeuour and trauell of Christians in our time one of the most wonderfull accidents that hath happened since the time of Christ and euen as a signe and token before the latter day that GOD which hath shut vp those nations so manie ages before in vnbeleefe would now yet in the latter time call them to the knowledge of his Sonne if any perhappes would hearken to his word that they also might bee saued and healed by the death of Christ Is it not likewise a speciall token of the end of the world that such extraordinarie Starres and Comets such straunge and rare Coniunctions of the Planets such meruellous remouings of earth whereof no mortall man can giue any naturall reason together with mightie ouerflowinges of the Sea whereby whole Countries and people are destroyed But is it not as great a signe and token hereof that within so fewe as fifteene yeares now to come there shall happen fiue Eclipses of the Sunne besides many others of the Moone such and so terrible as the like neuer happened within so short a space since the beginning of the world Doth not also the sodaine decay of mans strength and stature age together with the vnwilling mind he hath to all godlines vertue and charitable actions prognosticate vnto vs any lesse than the things before Moreouer do not the trees the plants the hearbes and fruits and all other sencelesse things of the earth which should bee for the comfort of man most sensiblie shewe vnto vs by the decay of their strength of their taste and vertue which not long since they had in greater measure that within a short time there shall be no more vse of them Nay doth not the earth it self complayne that she hath powred out of her bowells in a manner all the store of her treasures and commodities wherewith she was fraighted for the vse of man Yea do not all the creatures of God earnestly expect when the Sonne of God shall appeare that they also may be deliuered froÌ„ the bondage of corruption But shall wee not account this also to bee a great signe of the ende of the world that it pleased God in this age and neuer before both to indue man with knowledge and to leade him as it were by the hand about the whole compasse of the earth That when he had seene all and compast all and yet found all to be nothing but trouble and vanitie and vexation of minde by sea and land in all places where he came he might glorifie his Creator and Sauiour which had giuen so excellent guiftes and vertues and knowledge and ciuilitie and so iust a Religion vnto his Christian people before so many and so great nations which in comparison of them liued without God without faith and without all humanitie and might the rather bee drawne from the loue of this earthly mansion to long for the day of Christ and to bee translated to a more ioyfull and euerlasting habitation To be short The number of Prophets that GOD doth daylie send to admonish all people of the latter day and to giue them warning to be in a readines because they teach no lyes but such things as they finde in the word of God are no lesse to bee beleeued then those that prophesied of the first comming of Christ To make an ende hereof the opinions or rather firme beleefe of sondrie seuerall learned wise men so farre distant asunder by places but so neerely conspiring together by the vnitie of their iudgements and consent of their spirits as touching the comming of Christ do declare that the Bridegrome is eueÌ„ now comming and craue vs to wayt for him all houres of the day and night that we may enter with him into the mariage feast Where bee now these Atheists where bee these mockers where be those that walke after their own lusts and say where is the promise of his comming Behold the winter blasts are now gone and the comfort of the spring is come The Lord shall come speedelie foorth like a Lion out of his denne and will be auenged of them that speake blasphemie and will destroy all the workers or wickednesse Beholde the Arke is now welneere finished the number is accomplished the Church established the chosen confirmed The trumpet hath sounded The kings sonne must be maried The feast is prepared the bidden guests haue refused All sorts of people in all the high waies of the world are gathered the wedding is furnished The king and the bridegroome are comming The earth and the sea shall yeeld vp their dead the sonne of man shall appeare in the cloudes he shal come with exceeding glorie Angels without number shall attend vpon him All nations of the worlde shall drawe vnto him The godlie shall triumph and reioyce in him The generatioÌ„ of the wicked shal tremble to see him The godlie shal stand at his right hand the wicked on his left Heauen shal be opened the earth shal bee consumed the sea shal be dried The Sunne the Moone shal be darkened and all the powers

nation to rise against nation for vpholding of his damnable heresie and hee shall cause you to bee hated for my sake but feare not my little ones for when yee shall see all these troubles to happen bee ye sure that my comming and your redemption draweth nigh For my word shall runne out very swiftly and in a short space consume that which he by his hypocrisie and tyrannie had in many yeares contriued He that hath caused al Princes to drinke of the poysoned cuppe of his fornication him will I sodainly destroy with the breath of my mouth Yea and least ye should any longer bee deceiued by his false signes and deceiuable errors my word shall be published in all the world and then is the time of my comming then is the haruest of the earth ripe and then will I thrust in my sickle and reape And this publication of the Gospell ouer all the world is the second sound vnto iudgment For as our Sauiour Christ gaue the first sound when he sent foorth his Apostles and commaunded them to teach all nations Math. 2â— and to baptize them in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost and to plant Churches in al those places which receiued the word of truth that the fame of Christ and sound of the Gospell went foorth at that time to all lands where any people did inhabite So now all things being fulfilled that the Scriptures had promised should come to passe betweene the first warning and the second The Gospell of our Sauiour is begun agayne to be renewed published ouer al the world and that more freely and without perill then euer before by reason of the godly minds and good indeuors of Christian Magistrates And this I say is the second sound of the Trompet besides which wee are to expect no more till Christ himself enuyrond with thousands of Angels and in the Trompet of God voyce of an Archangell shal descend from heauen and commaund the dead to arise and shall gather his elect from the foure windes and from euery part of heauen and earth and from the deepe places And as this publishing of the Gospell is a most assured token of his comming so by reason of the effects thereof it is more notable then all the rest For it seemeth to bee but simple in shewe but it is wonderfull in operation It is contayned in playne and familiar termes but it searcheth the very roote of the heart It appeareth but foolishnesse to the vngodlie and to them that perish but it confoundeth the wisedome and craftines of this world It is but small and of no reputation amongst men but it driueth proud and mightie tyrants from their feates and exalteth into their places them which submit themselues vnto it It is but weake in sight of the world but it is the power of God vnto saluation in them that beleeue and it cutteth more sharp than a two edged sword ouerthrowing all the imaginations 2. Cor. 10. vers 4.5 6. and euery high thing that is exalted agaynst the knowledge of God bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ and hauing readie vengeance against all disobedience And it is no new Gospell that is now preached but it is the old Gospell newly published It is the same that the Apostles taught planted but the ingratitude of the world left and contemned If any nation at this day haue been kept in blindnes if any haue been held froÌ„ the benefite of the Gospell their owne sinnes and abhominations haue been the cause thereof for that they haue wilfully withheld the truth in their own vnrighteousnes and haue despised both God the Father his Sonne haue wrought despite vnto the spirit of grace For the creation both of themselues and of all the visible things of the world might make both God and his eternitie manifest enough vnto theÌ„ yet would they not acknowledge him but haue followed their own imaginations haue turned the glory that is due vnto the only wise vncorruptible God either vnto creatures farre inferior to themselues or els they haue worshipped deuils damnable spirits forsaking the true God that made both them al the world Besides this they cannot pleade ignorance For vndoubtedly the sound of his Gospell hath first or last gon into all lands And though perhaps later into one countrie than into another that hath God done in his wonderfull wisedome and prouidence who beholdeth all the nations in the world at one view seeth into all their actions beholdeth all their hearts perceiueth who be inclined vnto any goodnes who haue giuen ouer themselues to a wilfull and reprobate mind And as he beholdeth all men so he calleth all men some at the first houre and some at the last that he may haue mercie on whom it pleaseth him and may shut vp vnder infidelitie those that are hard harted Neuerthelesse if there be any nation that heard not of Christ in the first sound of the Trompet by the Apostles nor in all this time that the preaching of the Gospell hath been discontinued yet now there is not doubt but in this second warning publication of the word of God through the prosperous successes of our blessed Soueraign by the care that she other godly Princes of the reformed Churches haue to aduaunce the kingdome of Christ there shall bee no corner within the whole circumference of the earth but in short space shall not only haue the sound of the Gospell but a perfect publication and spreading of the same with a full knowledge of Christ For the Gospell shall be published ouer all the world and then commeth the end And vndoubtedly if the Gospell had been preached and taught vnto the people of America and the lower India by the Spanyards and Portingalls when they first found out those nations with such plainnes and simplicitie as is done by vs in the reformed Churches without adding of Images or superstitions or vanities no lesse peeuish and vngodly then the abhominations that those Infidels themselues had before vsed the kingdome of Christ had long before this day been receiued and spread ouer all those large and ample Territories Wherefore the more greeuous shall bee their damnation that haue so mocked and deceiued them and the greater is the mercie of God if he impute not their ignorance vnto them Now that wee haue breefly declared all the signes and tokens which the holy Ghost hath promised in the Scriptures to come to passe before the ende of the world wee must also with the like perspicuitie examine whether this be not the time or very neere thervnto that Christ shall come agayne in glorie to iudge both the quick and the dead which is the second part of this discourse For albeit that he hath set downe all these tokens of his comming so exactly and in such order as it is vnpossible but that anie man capable of reason may

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