as but the lower parts thereof were corrupted by the waters That of the Reuelation preiudiceth not the point For there seemeth rather a new heauen and newe earth to be destroyed then a dissolution of the other to be insinuated Also in Isaiah it is said That the Moone shall haue the light of the Sun and that the Sunne shall yeeld seuen fold more light then it doth now The Schoolemen applie all inferences in this case to the qualities and not to the substance of the world for the nature of the world shall not so be turmosted as it shall bee brought to nothing but it shall be rescued and redeemed from the hands of varâ—tie vnto which it was subiect For the world being sentensed to this iudgement for the sinne of man not of it selfe sinning against God after that sinne is out of place the world must recouer his former dignitie when the time appointed is accomplished especially the lower bodies which are in the sublâ—â—arie worlde for those be most obiect and subiect to corruption The master of the Sentences in effect deliuereth thus much But hee borroweth that which hee hath herein from Austine who saith That by a worldly combustion the qualities of the corruptible elements which had some cognation and correspondencie with our corruptible bodies shall vtterly burne and perish and that the substance shall put on those qualities by a miraculous exchange which shal be agreeable with the coÌ„dition of immortal bodies that the world being altred to the better may bee fitting to the persons also in their bodies altred to the better In the 14. Chapter of the forenamed booke this is his verdit This world shall passe away by a mutation not finall subuersion And he alledgeth for himselfe the fore-cited saying of Paul The fashion of this world passeth away The figure saith he not the nature is spoken of by the Apostle else where he likewise saith we are not to beléeue that the Elements that is to say that heauen and earth are to be produced to ashes but that their propertie shall be bettered The scriptures no where shew the dissolution of the worlds substance Also the bodies of the Saints must be in a place but what place shall they haue if they haue not a place in the worlde Moreouer man for whose sinne all woe came vpon the world shall not vtterly be destroyed but shall be renued in bodie and inuested with immortalitie either to his endlesse felicitie or miserie wherefore the worlds composition that was not in the transgression shall much lesse comein substance to this vtter confusion But this being a point more doubtfull then profitable we leaue it arbitrable what shall be the ende of the world we shall best know in the end of the world Thus hauing insisted as much as neede requireth in the two propounded points of this Chapter we will giue the vse the life of the whole and so conclude the same Whereas the fire is to consume this worlde as stubble as the former world was licked vp by water wee see how euery thing howsoeuer simplie of it owne nature appertaineth moste to the necessarie vse of man hath a most hurtfull effect against man when God will take it vp as a rod in his hand either for the correction or destruction of man The fire the water the soile the aire are the Elements that are aliments vnto vs in their propertie and kinde whereby we liue moue and haue our being but when God otherwise disposeth of them and purposeth the diuersion of their nature they are posting Purseuants of the wrath of God to execute his iudgements to the ouerthrow of our liues Wherefore the fire went out from Gods presence to burne vp Sodom and her Cities The water the Beesom of his fierce anger drowned reseruing onely eight persons yâ— whole world of the vngodly The earth whereupon euery one treadeth opened and distended her mouth like hell and swallowed vp Dathan and coneted the congregation of Abiram Manna the daintie restauration of the Israelites burst out of their noses and sauoured abhominably as a most iust iudgement against their palpable and damnable vngratefulnesse The sonnes of the Prophets by a sower hearbe in their pottage had almost perlshed The winde a Meteor by which we liue being the spirit of life and as it were a fanne in the hand of God for the clarifying the ayre that it should not putrifie an the Lungs in stead of Bellowes are giuen to the heart to qualifie the excessiue heare of the heart driued Ionas into the depth of the sea Againe whereas the world is to be wasted with fire and euerie mans worke is to be reuealed by sire let vs labour to plant golde siluer precious stones which the fire will make brighter and roote vp and remoue woodde â—ay stubble which cannot continue against the force of the fire When the Lord Iesus shall shew himselfe from Heauen with his mightie Angels in flaming fire rendering vengeance vnto them that doe not know God c. Lastly this argueth the worldes follie that laboureth to labour and carketh to care neuer taking out his Quietus est for those things that are reserued vnto fiâ—e which draweth manie through their wicked practises thereabout into the horrible fire that we shall â—ntreate of afterward The third Chapter Of the vncertaine and vnknowne time of the worlds end HAuing fore shewed the maner of the worlds dissolution which we rather call an immutation then corruption and a translation from a wâ—rser to a better condition like as when we of children become men of men old men we are not destroyed but changed in nature the fire not consuming the world but restoring it as the fire consumeth not the gold but refineth it by the methode of the place it would bee considered concerning the time of the duration thereof what is to bee determined wherein wee will desire to knowe no more then the Scriptures haue reuealed From whence we haue no certaintie but rather the vncertaintie is euerie where spoken of As where Christ saith Of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaueÌ„ but my father only In Mark he excepteth against himselfe to leaue the high knowledge thereof onely to his father Neither the sonne himselfe saue the father Which is to be vnderstoode of his humanitie which naturally and ordinarily knoweth nothing â—erein but as it is taught by a better schoolmaster namely his Diuinitie When the Apostles put forth the question to Christ Lord wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome to Israel Their answere was that the knowledge thereof was to deepe misterie for them It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father hath put in hâ—s owne power It is Christs watchword to the world Ye know not what houre your muâ—â—er will come Ye know not the day nor the houre when the sonne of man will
their eyes shall haue better obiect before them their feete shall be exalted aboue the cloudes and the whole bodie shall be mantled with immortalitie as sayeth Chrysostome If to infringe this which hath beene deliuered any shall obiect this saying of the Apostle Flesh and blood cannot inherite the Kingdome of God and so inferre hereupon that the bodies of men shall not rise againe we answer them thus that by fleth and blood is not meant the bodies of men simply but as they are now in the state of corruption that which the Apostle calleth animale corpus The fleshly man or the earthly man and what soeuer is of nature without the spirite which being depraued and corrupted must needes be renued Wherefore Christ said to Nicodemus vnles a man be regenerate and borne a new he cannot enter into the kingdome of God The vnregenerate man is called Flesh therefore Christ immediatly after the former words said That which is borne of the flesh is flesh wherefore of force wee must be regenerated neither onely the flesh the bodie or a part of the minde is to be renued which couetteth and is angry but especially the reason the minde the will And Christ else where teacheth that the whole man as he is in the state of nature is called flesh and bloud For thus Christ answereth Peter Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona for flesh and bloud hath not reuealed these thinges but the spirite of my father In which wordes Christ comprehendeth the better parts of the mind For they be those by which we vnderstood and the truth is reuealed vnto vs. Therefore these must be turned and transposed and created a new that we may be as Christ saith like the Angells in resurrection For the infirmitie of this mortall bodie is such as it cannot take the least taste or smack of heauenly glorie as we perceiue in the Prophets and Apostles who were men without soules when at anie time God did appeare vnto them And not without cause said God to Moses Thou canst not see my face neither shall man see me and liue Wherefore the German and right sence of the wordes of the Apostle is this as we are nothing else but flesh and bloud weake mortall sinfull Curuae in terris animae coel est ium in mes wée cannot inherite the kingdome of God Lastly if that of Salomon shall be laid against vs The condition of the children of men and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition and so argue that a man shall rise no more from the dead then a beast we will answere them by Salomon who explaineth himselfe in the words following they are like in dying As the one dieth so dieth the other but in their estate after death they differ of which Salomon speaketh not The sixt Chapter Of the certaintie of the iudgement or the day of doome THe general iudgement being the consecution of the resurrection the end therof yâ— last blast of that shril truÌ„pet giuing this Eccho surgite mortui venite ad IudiciuÌ„ Arise ye dead come to iudgement We are to enter into the tractation hereof in this place This subiect matter though it be of vnquestionable assurance Yet because the schoole of Cyclopical Atheists Epicures carnal minded men is so great who as seâ—pents grouel wholly in the dust only giue themselues to earthly things licking vp this Aphorisme of Socrates the Philosopher Quae supra nos nihil ad nos Those things that are aboue vs appertaine not vnto vs we list to light a candle before the Sun and aswel by scriptures as irrefragable reasons determine the absolute certaintie of this matter 1. The scriptures are plaine and plentifull in the point Hanna the mother of Samuel thus prophecieth hereof saying The Lords aduersaries shall be destroied and out of heauen shall he thunder vpon them the Lord shall iudge the ends of the world and shall giue power vnto his kinge and exalt the horne of his anointed which is Christ Isaiah sermoneth it thus Then shall they goe into the holes of the rockes and into the caues of the earth from before the feare of the Lord and from the glorie of his maiestie when he shall arise to iudge the earth That the prophet by these wordes aimeth at doomes day appeareth by the Angells exposition of the same And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the cheif captaines and the mighty men and euery bondman and euery free man hid themselues in dennes and among the rockes of the mountaines And said to the mountaines rocks fal on vs and hide vs froÌ„ the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand In another place he preacheth thus Behould the day of the Lord cometh cruell with wrath and fierce anger c. But in another place â—e is most pathetical in the point The lord wil come with fire his charets like a wirlewind that hee may recompence his 〈◊〉 with wrath and his indignatioÌ„ with the flame of fire For the Lord wil iudge with fire and with his sword all flesh Daniel deliuereth the like doome saying And at that time shal Michael stand vp the great prince which staÌ„deth for the childreÌ„ of the people and there shall be a time of trouble such as neuer was since there began to bee a nation vnto that same time and at that time thy people shall be deliuered euery one that shall be found written in the booke And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life and some to shame and perpetuall contempt And they that bee wise shall shine as the brightnes of the firmament and they that turne many to righteousnes shall shine as the starres for euer and euer Ioel writeth thus of it I will shew wonders in the heauens and in the earth bloud and fire and pillars of smoke The Sunne shall be turned into darknes and the moone into bloud before the great terrible day of the Lord come Zephaniah singeth the same songe with the rest The great day of the Lord is neere it is neere and hasteth greatly euen the voice of the day of the Lord the strong man shall crie there bitterly That day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and heaumes a day of destruction and desâ—lation a day of obscuritie and darknes a day of cloudes and blacknes a day of the trumpet and a â—arume against the strong citties c. Malachie hath also good matter to this purpose The day commeth that shal burne as an ouen and all the proud yea all that do wickedly shal be stuble the day that coâ—meth shall burne them vp saith the Lord of hosts and shall leaue them neither roote nor branch In the new testament we haue verie
both from mind and bodie therefore the recompence of the reward shal be giuen vnto them both 2 Our second Apodicticall conclusion is this That which is imperfect hath not capacitie of absolute felicitie but the soule sundred from the bodie is imperfect therefore it must needes be coupled to the bodie to the attainment of this plenarie felicitie 3 We reason also thus The fulnesse of Gods goodnes towards those that are his could not be shewed nor the fulnes of his furiousnesse vpon the wicked could not be powred if the resurrection were not 4. It standeth God in hand as much as his truth is worth to make good the resurrection because we haue promise and charter of him for it Christ hauing said it God shall reward you in the resurrection of the iust 5 That we should not doubt of his truth in some examples at all tâ—mes he hath made proofe hereof exempting them froÌ„ death that the world may know that death is in his hands standing before him to execute his will like a Purseuant to spare and to spoile as in the time of nature when he tooke vp Enoch in the time of the law when he tooke vp Elias in the time of grace when he raised vp Christ from death to life We inforce the matter fuller and argue from the lesser to the greater thus Elizeus raised the Sunamites sonne therefore much more can Christ raise vs vp Elizeus his bones gaue life to a dead bodie therefore much more shall the omnipotent word of God which is Christ giue liâ—e to our dead bodies Aarons rod did blossom and beare Almonds Moses drie waster became a créeping Serpent Sarah her dead wembe was deliuered of a son what are these but liuely images of the resurrection 7 From the order of nature though we haue no strong proofe yet much probable matter we haue of the vndoubted resurrection The day that now passeth to morrow doth returne Trées and herbs are stroken dead by the violence of the winter reuiue with the spring the renuing time of the yere and are clothed with leaues and fruits But thou wilt say to this that life was not vtterly out of them by the winters wracke wee say also that by death man is not vtterly depriued of life for it is their soules that die not Such Logicks doth Paul vse in the corne that is sowne whose corruption is the generation of it O fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die This is that which Christ saith except the wheat-corne fall into the ground and dâ—e it bideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit If such contemptible creatures haue renewance and from death are restored to life shall not this handle worke of God be much more seen in man the noblest plant that his right hand hath planted and the finest seed that euer the furrowes of the earth were strowed with the most excellent and worthiest creature of all For what is the hay or gréeue herbe in comparison of man That Indian bird the Phaenix as philosophers do report good diuines do ratifie especially Lactantius among others dieth is wasted to ashes by the heat of the Sun of those her ashes is a yong one ingundred and thus is that kind continued This similitude is taken vp by diuines to illustrate our certain resurrection For more coÌ„panie sake we name the swallows worms flies which lie dead al the winter by yâ— increasing heat of the sun are enliued againe in the spring and sommer time If we run through all the rankes and classes of nature we shall finde euerie where probabilities in the point Fire that lieth dead in a flint stone by a little force that is put vnto it putteth life into it The Sunne that goeth downe doth rise againe the Moone decreaseth and increaseth againe Our nailes are paired and grow againe our heares are cut off come vp againe Sleepe called by Homer the brother of death and by others the image of death because it is the tying of the senses as binding them in that wise as they cannot execute their functions seazeth vpon vs and as it were burieth vs for a time But the bodie dispelleth it againe after which it is fresh and plyable to to any office The misbeleefe of such who cannot be brought to think that out of the putred and consumed stuffe life should be expressed are by sundry works of nature notably conuicted For of such confection or infection rather are mise mouls frogs worms ingendred Out of â—ooks cranies odde corners of the earth often very radiant and splendent precious stones are gathered The séed of liuing creatures which is nothing else but a drop of misshapen humour what substance doth it beget in progresse of time What partes doth it produce as hands feete eares eies head and such like in their kinde These thinges doe wee beholde in the Glasse of nature which so oft as we remember we doe well if we remember the resurrection 8 By the Prophets by Christ by the Apostles some haue beene raised from death in life to ground vs in the faith of the resurrection The widowes sonne of Sarepta was raised by Elias the Sunamites sonne by Elisha a dead man by the touch of the bones of Elisha the rulers daughter by Christ who was newly deceased the widowes sonne of Nain that was in his locker and led out to the graue by him likewise Lazarus that had lien in the ground foure dayes Tabitha by Peter Eutychus by Paul 9 A man would thinke if were a worke of more difficultie to forme the woman of mans rib to create the man of the gleab of the earth to make the whole frame of heauen and earth of nothing then to raise vp man from the dust to life If wine be mixed with water there are those that can part the wine from the water Goldsmiths and such as worke in mettals can dissolue confected substances concreate of gold siluer brasse steele And such are to be found who can expresse Oyle and liquide matter out of anie drie bodie Wherefore the illimited power of God which made all things of nothing shall reduce our bodies to their formes againe howsoeuer formerly reduced to nothing Lengthen out the matter so farre as conceit and imagination will let you and put the case thus That a man is eaten by a wolfe that wolfe is eaten by a lion that lion is deuoured by the fouls of the aire the foules of the are aire eaten by men one of those men eate vp another as Canibals doe yet shall his owne bodie be giuen him againe euerie man shall haue so much matter of his owne as will serue to make him a perfect bodie They shall haue the same bodies in substance as Iob saieth but altred in qualitie being freed from corruption and fulfilled with glorie Their mouthes shall bee opened to speake better things
one chéeke to holde out the other the meaning whereof is that we rather suffer two iâ—iuries then reuenge one To the Epâ—cures ambitious luxurioâ—s and to all eâ—orbitant persons of what name and title soeuer they bee bée the same spoaken they haue their iâ—dgement in the law and they shall haue it in the lake if they looke not well vnto it Therfore for Godâ— sake be ye warned that ye may be armed that ye may not be harmed Thou angrie man it will not seâ—ue thy turne at that time toplead the heat of thy nature the impotencie of thy affections whereby thou canst not moderat thy â—cessiue perturbations For when many dogges came about Christ and many fatte Bulles of Basan incircled him and be set him round about hee was so farre from troublesome passions as hee was resolued into charitable affections towards them and put vp his praieres to his father for them Thou gréedie guttâ— that giuest vp thy selfe to gurmandizing it is but absurde to plead disuse of abstinence or temperaunco for Christ that great faster shal condemne thee thou great feaster From these instances all degrées of sinners may take inferences that belong vnto them and be in time conuerted least at that time they be for euer confounded Thus Christ as he was the ruine and resurrection of many according to the prophecie at his first comming so shall his second comming haue the same effects The dolor of the wicked and the pleasure of the godly shal be such at that time as a learned man in meditation hereof wondereth that euery stone should not be a thorne to the godly in this life to enlarg his miserie that in the life to come he might haue laide vpon his shoulders a great-weight of glorie that euery stone is not a rose to the wicked 〈◊〉 might haue his fill of pleasure in this life because then it is outâ—â— date and there is none to be looked for of him in the 〈◊〉 to come The ninth Chapter The Maiestie of Christ in his comming to Iudgement CHrist shall come verie gloriously to iudgement with a white cloud round about him the whole quire of Angells and the whole host of heauen attending vpon him with an incredible shrill and hoarse noise of trumpets His number without number is thus indefinitly spoken of by the Apostle in these wordes He shall come with thousandes of his saintes which hath consent with former prophecies for Daniel being in this argument saith A firie streame issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministred vnto him and ten thousand thousands stood before him the iudgment was set and the bookes opened This tooke place at his first coÌ„ming wheÌ„ the minister and hoast of heaueÌ„ly soldiers waited on him and shall take place againe at his second comming when all the ministring spirits and creatures of heauen Saints Angels seruants shall be pannelled personally to assist him To this end saith the Euangelist The sonne of man shall come in the glorie of his father with his Angells They shall see the some of man come in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie WheÌ„ the son of man cometh in his glorie al the holy Angells with him Yee shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God and come in the cloudes of the heauen They shall see the Sonne of man comming in the cloudes with great power and glorie The like wordes are in Luke with these hath the saying of Iude sweete harmonie Behold the Lord coÌ„meth with thousands of his saintes Now the power of Angels in the execution of Gods iudgements is inuincâ—ble for one Angel slew all the first borne of Egipt in on night By the hand of one Angel there was such hauock made of the armies of the Assirians as a hundreth fouer-score and fiue thousand of them were put to the sword and laid on the ground as corne by a sicle Therefore what a huge destruction shall there be of the wicked when hee commeth with such a royall armie of Angels with him There are manie that are innocent that are terrified when they see a King come by with an armed power the sight of glistring swords dismaieth them the clattering of armour and weapons affrighteth them therefore what terror horror shall come vpon the wicked when Christ a man of war shal buckle his harnesse to him he shal put on iustice as a habergeon shal come with his Miriades of heauenly Angels and betake himself to his throane out of which he shall thunder the great curâ—â—e against all flesh which must be ratified foreuer Where shall those that haue persecuted him in his members then appeare If they could not indure the maiestie of him when he came but to deliuer the law in Mount Synaj but the blacknes darknes tempest burning fiâ—e was to terrible for them insomuch as Moses said I feare and quake the people fled stood a far off and said vnto Moses Talk thou with vs we wil heare but let not God talk with vs least we die Now shal they endure his second comming in the â—â—tiousnes of his wrath when his voice shall shake yâ— heauens the earth the sea the dry land his comming is to take vengeance of the breakers of this lawe If men ware amazed at any strange eclips of Sunne and Moone if any extraordinarie darknes danteth them as the Egiptians were out of heart when such a foggie darknes came vpon them as for two or three daies together one could not see another or mooue out of his place if earth-quakes make them quake and their hearts faile them vpon the occurrence of impetuous winds vociferations of many waters noice in the night scritchings of Serpents and Dragons and such like When greater signes then these by infinite degrées be shewed in the glorious comming of Christ to iudge the worlde how should not the hearts of the wicked malt like waxe and fall away like water As in the daie wheron our redéemer was crucified the naturall sonne of God for the sinnes of the world the Sun was smoothered and there was dacknes ouer all the land so when the iustice of the adopted Son of God shal be shewed there shal be terrible fearful signes to strike sinners into passions as the Centurion and many others were at those signes shewed at his passion If the brethren of Ioseph could not tell what to say when as Ioseph in kindnes did but say vnto him I am Ioseph in remembrance but of one forpassed trespasse What shal stubborne sinners say at this the glorious comming of Iesus Christ when hee shall come riding vpon the heauens as vpon an horse and come flying with the winges of the wind who haue so often solde their Iesus by their sinfull doings and neuer with the brethren of Ioseph haue yet tasted of any sorrowe for it When
my Father which is in heauen The Apostle hath set it downe for an irrefrugable conclusion we shal all appeare before the iudgement â—eate of Christ Answerable to this is this his other Aphortâ—me we must al appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ that euerie man may receiue the thinges which are done in his bodie c. But the Godly shal make a very easie reckoning For Christ is their comfortâ—â— their conscience there cleergâ— as witnesse of their 〈◊〉 heauenly possession But the wicked because their conscience shal condemne theÌ„ the deuil shal accuse thâ—â— Christ shal be against theÌ„ shal haue a world of woâ—â—n answer to make answers They shal say to the mountaine hide vs and to the hilles coâ—er vs. But from hence groweth a question how the Godly can bee iudged seeing they shall sitte Assistants with Christ in the iudgement as Esai saieth The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the ancients of his people and the Princes thereof that is to say with the elect companie as Christ saith to his Apostles Ye shal sit vpon twelue Thrones and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel as Paul saith Know ye not that wee shall iudge the Angels We answer that iudgement is of double nature there is a iudgement of Absolution there is another iudgement which is of Condemnation In the iudgement of Condemnation are the wicked only wrapped adulterers adultresses fornicators vncleane persons vsurers oppressors slanderers blasphâ—mers hers deceiuers epâ—cures Machiâ—ilians Atheists The godly haue onely but iudgement of Absolution that is to say they are iudged to be quit and deliuered and blessed They shall be absolued of all the slanderous imputatioÌ„s of the world and wicked men against them Besides men the euill spirite also shall be iudged Christ denounceth infernall fire to the diuell and his angels Goe yee cursed into Hell fire prepared for the diuell and his angels Of this their condemnation speaketh Peter thus God spared not the Angels that had sinned but cast them downe into hel and deliuered them into chaines of darknes to bee kept vnto condemnation Of this Paul speaketh when he saith Rnow yee not that we shall iudge the Angels Iude consenteth with the rest expresly saying The Angels also which kept not their sâ—st estate but leâ—t their own habitation he hath referred in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto the iudgement of the great day These are to be iudged as ringleaders of all 〈…〉 of all the band of sinners as Iudas did the band of souldiers against Christ Also this iudgement shall extend it selfe vnto the senslesse vnreasonable creature the heauen the earth and whatsoeuer is conteined in them Esai speaketh of new heauen and a new earth that are promised The new heauens and the new earth which I will make shall remaine before me Paul sheweth somuch saying The feruent desire of the creature waiteth when the sons of God shal be reuealed because the creature is subiect to vanitie not of its own wil but by reason of him which hath subdued it vnder hope because the creaturs also shal be deliuered froÌ„ the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God Lastly antichrist is rankt in the ranke of those that shall haue condemnatorie iudgement His damâ—ation decréed against him is thus spoaken of Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirite of his mouth and shall abolish with the brightnes â—f his comming Thus haue we the seuerall persons that shall be iudged seuerally the senâ—les creature shal be purged the godly shal be absolued the wicked shall be condemned Sathan the muster maister of malignant men shall be throwne downe into hell and Anti-christ as the sonne of perdition the opposite aâ—uersarie to our Sauiour Christ shall be destroâ—ed by the wrathâ—â—lâ— indignation of Christ The eleuenth Chapter The thinges that are to be iudged AS all persons are to be iudged so they shall bee â—asted to their coâ—rsest branne Their thoughtes wordes workes shal be as throughly ransacked as euer Laban did raâ—sacke Rachels stâ—ffâ— That all thinges shal be scanned Saint Iohn hath declared I saw the dead bâ—th great and small â—â—and before God and the bookes were opened and another booke was openâ—d which is the booke of life and the deade were iudged of these things which were writteÌ„ in the bookes aâ—cording to their works God is said iâ— haue counting bookes by him because all thinges are as certaine to him as if he had Acâ—â—â—ries and Clarkes in heauen to make enrolement thereof and to keepe the recordes of them 〈◊〉 hath three seuerall 〈◊〉 or Bookes 1. The booke of prouidence 2. Of Iudgement 3. Of life The booke of his prouidence is the absolute knowledge of a particularities pâ—st present to come This Book is meâ—â—oned by Dauid in these wordes Thine eyes did see my substance yet being vnperfect and in thy bookes were al my members written which day by day were â—ashioned when as yet there were none of them As in another place thus Thou tellest my â—â—ttings puttest my teares into thy bottel are not these things noted in thy bookes The booke of Iudgement is that wherebâ— he giueth iudgement which is of two sections The first is his â—ore knowleâ—ge in whâ—ch all the affaires of men their designmeâ—ts and 〈…〉 as plainely set downe to him as if they were pâ—nned Wee may â—et them slippe in a carelesâ—e â—orge fulnesse but God hath â—ckets of our dooings by him and keepeth them in perâ—ect remembrance Of which the Prophet Dauid saith thus Thou hast set my misdeedes before thee and my secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance So that be they neuer so olde they are as new to him as if they had beene doon but yesterday For he rippeth vp the sâ—ane of Amalek doone more then three hundreth yeares before and commaundeth Saul to conferre it He yâ— numbreth the stars calleth them all by their names hath numbred our sins and will name them vnto vs as periuries blasphemies adulteries lyes vsuries and such like The second leafe or tome of this second Booke is euerie mans particuler conscience which maketh conuulsions thinges in vs and is instead of a thousand witnesses setting before vs the thinges that we haue done The booke of life is the decree of Gods election in which God hath set downe who are sealed vp vnto eternal life The opening of these bookes is Gods reuealing vnto euerie man his owne proper sins in thought word and deede committed against heauen and against him and then also by his omnipotent power hee that can of stones by Iordans brooke side raise vp Children to Abraham shall breake a sunder our stonie consciences so that wee shall haue compunction and remembrance of all sorepassed actions Now the conscience of the wicked is feared with a hot yron and is past feeling but then it shall be so sensible
come Ye know not wâ—en the time is But 〈◊〉 it is not farre of we are sure So Paul teacheth To admonisâ— vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come Saint Iohn is as plaine It is the last time Augustine saith vnto Hesychius who was curiously inquisitiue of the worldes end That he dare not giue the aduenture to measure the length and the scope theref seeing the Angels and Sonne of man himselfe are ignorant hereof But in his first â—ocke vppon Genesis against the Manichies hee giueth sixe ages to the life of the worlde as the life of man is disposed and diuided into seuerall sundrie ages through which as his life passe so the life of the worlde goeth away By casting the worlde into sire ages hee followeth the set number of dayes which were sire wherein the whole forme and frame of heauen and earth were made and finished The first age is the time from Adam to Noah or to the stood which hee compareth to our infancie The seconde is all the time from the flood to Abrahams dayes which hee likeneth to our childehoode The third is all the time from Abraham to Dauid which he suteth to our youthfull age The fourth is all the time from Dauid to the transportation of the people into Babylon which is answerable to our mans estate The fift is all the time from the captiuitie to the Incarnation of Christ which hath reference is our olde age The sixt is all the time from Christ to the verie ende it selfe which is our decrepit estate and condition which is called by Saint Iohn The last houre After which followeth the seauenth day euen the Sabboth of our endlesse rest But in regarde of the notable chaunges thereof the worlde may be drawne to a narrower roome and more simplie be destributed into foure ages onely The first is the time from the Creation to the Flood which wee may rightly tearme the infancie and Child-hoode of the worlde for that theu Artes were first founde out and that with the first principles and promises of saluation the godly were satisfied and they worshipped God after a simple and plaine manner The second from the Flood extendeth it selfe to the promulgation and publication of the Lawe which for verie good causes wee may woorthily call the youthfull age of it For then were men farre and wide diuided throughout all partes of the earth Common-wealths were first founded and the beginning of the first Monarchie instituted and the couenant of saluation by God with Abraham our father indented the linage and descent of the Messiah designed and our vniuersall redemption in the deliuerance of the Israelites from the Egyptian thraldome typicallie represented The thirde age comprehendeth the whole time that was spent vnder the time of the Lawe vnto the comming of our Sauiour in the flesh as wee finde it diuided by our Sauiour Christ himselfe saying The Lawe and the Prophets are vnto Iohn c. That was the ripe age and manhoods of the Worlde it being then come to his perfect growth for then came in Magna Charta the plenarie enrolment of the will of God making the consignement of the promises of God by sundrye Ceremonies and opening them at large by the Commentaries of the Prophets Nowe as sorrowes encrease with yeares and the full age hath fulnesse of troubles accompanying it so manie perturbations did fall vppon these tymes and the whole worlde was as it were set vppon Wheeles and vp and downe rolled with tragicall commâ—tions The fourth age ranne vppon the necke of this wherein the Senne of God in flesh was manifested which to the consummation of the worlde shall be continued This as wee noted before out of Iohn is called The last houre otherwise called by the Apostle Paul to the same effect The fulnesse of time so tearmed because all the promises of God excepting the generall resurrection and iudgement are absolutely fulfilled and shall make a full end of the Worlde Nowe it agreeth fulâ—ie with the nature of olde age For as olde men can not liue long though young men may die soone and they spende their remainder of time with cares infirmityes and diseases enough so wee can not promise to the worlde beeing in his olde age any long continuance or that it shall bee better then it is but rather that the age of it shall bee more burdensome vnto it and make it to be worsser This knowledge howsoeuer sufficient for vs satisfieth not others folishly curious ayming at the verie exact time of his dissolution by these â—riuolous coniectures These haue found out a simple shift for themselues to answer Christs words The day and houre knoweth no man instnuating that we may haue a gesse at the time though wée knowe not the nicke and exact part of the time But their sophistrie will not serue theÌ„ For Christs â—â—plie to the â—psie quâ—stion of the Apostles in these words It is not for you to know the times cutleth off their cauilling â—â—stinction of time it beeing in the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Times and seasons wherefore their cunning commeth out of time Neither will that out of Mathew doe them good whereby they would take a measure of the time when 〈◊〉 world should haue 〈◊〉 in these words And this Gospell of the kingdome shall bee preached thorough the whole world for a witnes to all natiâ—ns and then shall the end come Augustine answereth them thus the Lords comming shal not be vntill the Gospell be dispersed throughout the world But how soone he shal come after this is thus published it is not from hence gathered The Gospel was generally notified to the world in the Apostles time who by their coÌ„tinual tedious perambulations had sent the sound thereof into all lands as Paul in his letter to the Colossians writeth thus Which is come vnto you euen as it is vnto all the world and is fruitful as it is also among you and yet euer since the world hath continued But there are many relie vpon idle dreames as vpon familiar deuiles The Mathematicians doe looke for a great yeere as Cicero sheweth after which al the starres shal returne to their beginnings and then the end of the world shal be Baldus in Cicero putteth in this spoake This conuersion howe long it will bée is a great question but it is necessarily certaine and definite Macrobius out of the opinion of naturall philosophers doth set downe a great yeere which hee calleth the worldes yeere Making it to confist of fiftéene thousand yeeres as the Sunne measureth them Augustine acquainteth vs with the fancies of some in his time who assigned fower hundred yéeres after the assention of Christ vnto heauen of others who â—â—crâ—ed fiue huÌ„dred of others who spake of a thousand after the expiration whereof the world should haue an absolute vastation But their vttermost prefixed time hauing long beene out of date their vaine assertions are sufficiently reproued
Others there are that are carried away with oracle deriued from the traditions of the Hebrewes which they would beare vs in hand they had learned of Elias and out of his schoole house and restraine the worlds duration to 〈◊〉 thousand of yéeres which they to part equally into these 〈…〉 1. Two thousand spent be oâ—e the time of the law 2. Two thousand vnder the law 〈◊〉 3. The last two thousand to the kingdome of Christ depâ—ted so as 〈◊〉 â—eeing the yeere of grace reuealed 1603. as it pleaseth learned men so suppâ—te this is the fiue thousand fiue hundreth 〈◊〉 eight yeere of the worldes age So that of this account there 〈◊〉 yee foure hundred â—eeres to be consummased This reckoning hath â—â—nne the more currantly in that they applie these six thousand yeeres to the six dates wherin God created yâ— worldâ— inasmuch as the Prophet saith A thousand yeers in thy sight are as yesterday and it â—â—in Peter One day is with the Lord as a thousâ—â—d yeers and a thousâ—nd yeers as one day Héereâ—pon they make this interence as in hâ—daâ—es the worlde was 〈◊〉 and in the seauenth wâ—s the sâ—bbath of the Lord wherein hée tested So after six thousand yeeres accomplished the world shall bee â—estâ—oâ—ed and in the seauenth shal our eternal fabbâ—th hee fulfilled and in the eight the puritie of our circumcision reâ—oâ—ed Wee read also of another fraternitie and brotherhoode who â—â—liuer that the â—â—sticali bodie the church shal abide three and thirtie yéeres héere in caâ—th as Christ himselfe 〈◊〉 so long in the bodâ—e which he tooke from the Virgin But they make euery of those â—éeces of a wonderful widenes putting fiftie yéeres to euery one to make euery yere a yéere of Iubilee But this and such like are verâ—e frâ—â—uolous fictions It is naturally engrafted in the mind of man to desire nouelties and to affect strange courses and so see is after a knowledge beyond al sobâ—tetâ—â— to be curiously â—â—quisttiue after â—â—ages to come and carelesly respectiue of such thinges as are present This is the cause why some giue themselves vnto â—â—lawfull artes and 〈◊〉 themselues to be mocked and misled bâ—â—ste Deuill So did Saul who perceiuing God to bee angrie with hâ—m and the hand of the Philistiâ—â—s to be sore vpon him neuer sought vnto God for his Quietus est to haue couÌ„saâ—le or comfort from 〈◊〉 But decâ—â—ous to know the censequent of the case hee deliberated with 〈◊〉 women who draue him headlong to deâ—petation and destruction Such madnesse now blindeth and beâ—â—teâ—eth too manie who by staring vpon the startes will prognositcat the euent and successe of euery yeere and so determine of the estate of it as if they had the heauens water in an brinall with an impudent rashnes denouncing warres fore-promising peace prophisying of maladies in men and beasts giuing vs many good words of a good yéere telling vs a faire tale of the free passage of religion and comprehending in their speculation the perturbations and mutations of all kingdomes In the meane while they let slip greater matters that are certaine reuealed by the scriptures touching faith hope charitie and other godlie duties requisite for a christian man weil to know and to bée familiarly conuersant in which haue no perpleritie or obscuritie in them But in this Article especially which is of the end of the world men at all times haue bene singularly busie and bolde Wheras the prophecies thereof as Augustine well saith are sooner perfected then perceiued This is one of the Deuills notable stratagems and deuises to set our braines a worke with circuler questions endles and fruitles thereby to withdraw our mindes from points of greatest néedfulnes The Apostle toucheth such and willeth the Thessalonians not to héede them that drop into their eares the present comming of Iesus Christ in glory Our age haue brought forth men of no base learning who in their bookes and sermons haue bene ouer sawcie and malipert in this matter as if they had bene furnished with heauenly reuelations and as if God had familliarly talked with them as the father deth with the childâ— Now what heinous and detestable boldnes is this to affect such a metaphisicall and supereminent knowledge which goeth beyond the wisdome of angells and the wisdome of the sonne of man as he is barely the sonne of man So wée be wise vnto saluation wée must content our selues with that which the word deliuereth vs and séeke no other scholmaâ—ster no though it were an angell I care not what any Angell saith if he take not his text from the written word of God which wée haue with vs. That which wée say of an Angel is to be vnderstode likewise of the spirites of those that are departed as the historie of the rich man and Lazarus sheweth who putting vp his bil of request vnto AbrahaÌ„ that some doctor out of another world from the company of the dead might be sent to preach vnto his brethren hée was denied his sute and tolde that Moses and the Prophets were sufficient and that if they could not reclaime them their case was incurable this his new found affected monster could doe no good vpon them What néed haue we to séene beyond the scriptures for any thing belonging to the worke of our saluation when as Paul saith an Angell is not to bee credâ—ted but so farre as he commeth with scripture The obiect and subiect of the word being Christ how should it not be stored with all kinde of wisdome Who of God is made vnto vs wisdome and righteousnes and santification and redemption The written word of God endited by the spirit is in all numbers absolute as Paul teacheth The whole scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to teach to improue to correct and to instruct in righteousnes that the man of God may be absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes It was requisite that this time should be concealed and not discouered to vs. That we might arise the better from that bed of securitie into which wée were cast as Iezabell was cast vpon abedde of fornication Christ taketh vp this argument as an instigation to vs to more forwardnes and faithfullnes in our dutie Watch therefore for yee know not when the maister of the house will come at euen or at midnight at the cocke crowing or in the dawning It is our manner to serue God as lawâ—ers do their cliants with delaies and to put off duties of religion and deuotion to after times promising our selues that wée shall liue long and sée many good daies But while we are in the fashion of the world in Zacharie â—in time of which it is said All the world sitteth still and is at rest the Eccho and answering voice from heauen will be this When they shall say peace and safetie then shall come vpon them sodaine distruction as trauell vpon a woman with child and they
Ashes but this iudgement was formerly denounced by Loth. He brought his vengeance and fierce wrath vppon Pharaoh but hee had faire warning thereof by Moses aforehand Thus God threatneth the worlds end but he giueth vs signes which are the Preachers and forerunners of the end That God doth this inuincible argument that hee loueth vs and that he is loath to vndoe vs. For wished he our destruction hee would not preuent it with so wholesome admonition For the Huntsman that seeketh the death of the Hare threatneth not the Hare but warily watcheth him the better to set vpon him but God threatning vs before it is a signe hee would haue vs take heede of that which followeth The Genttle had an eye to this who tooke coniectutes of consequent calamities by some preâ—â—â— accidents according to that which the Poet sayth Sâ—pe malum hoc nobis si mens non laeua fuisset De Coelâ— tactas memini praedicere quercus This euill to vs if that our minds had not been fondly bent Thunder froÌ„ heauen vpon our Oaks did threaten such eueÌ„t That we should be grounded in the certaintie of the worldes end though we know not the certaintie of the time these signes and markes are giuen vs. The signes prefired partly are such as are knowne vnto vs and familiar to our senses and partly they are such as exceede natures course and are verie strange and fearfull to ronfider of But they all serue to set foorth the corruption and consumption of the worlds bodie as Vlcers diseases distort and luxate members forespeake the dissolution of the naturall bodie This is no strange and vncouth case as wee haue sayde before but it is Gods woont so to doe Hee made peace with Noah but the Raine-bowe which hee placed in the Heauen was the consignement of this Charter and indentment Ezechias receâ—ueth promise of ensuing health and of longer life And the recesse of the Sunne and shadowe certaine degrees bindeth and confirmeth it In this sort by signes are wee assured that the world shall be dissolued The signes expresly nominated in the holie Scriptures are by Matthew Marke Luke diligently set foorth and put together thus 1 The first is corruption of doctrine and seduction by impostors and deceyuable teachers noted by the pen-men of the Gospels in these wordes Manie shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue manie 2 The second is warres and rumors of warres in these wordes Ye shal heare of wars and rumors of warres 3 Motions commotions subuersions of Empires and dominations thus deliuered Nation thaâ— rise against nation realme against realme 4 Pestilence 〈◊〉 Famine 6 Earthquake in the ende of the seauenth verse of the 24. Chapter of Saint Mathews Gospell hudled together 7 The persecution of the Church by the false Bretherâ—â— the bretheâ—â— of 〈◊〉 churâ—â— in these woâ—ds 〈◊〉 TheÌ„ shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted and shall kil you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake 8. Defections in the church and intâ—stine perturbations and diuisione betweene kâ—dred and alâ—eâ— in these wordes opened And then shall manye be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another And that an insolent neiâ—hbour-hood and Eroâ—â—erhood shall doe this Marke foreteâ—â—eth The Brother shall deliueÌ„ the Brother to death and the father the Sonne and the Children shall rise against their Parents and shall cause them to die 9. Generallie of iniquiâ—ie and detection of charitie are tokens of a cousumption in the worldes bodie in the same Cat log of â—ehearsed malignities put downe And because iniquitie shall be increased the loue of many shall be colde 10. The collâ—men of the church throughout the Gentils alâ—â—ations and the dispersion of the Gospell among all lanoâ—s to the endes of the world is another presagement of the worldes â—nd And this Gospel of the kingdom shal be preached throughout the whole world for a witnesse to all nations and then shall the end come 11. The abhomination of desolution setting vp a Monarchie in the holie place with the rest witnesseth the worldes desolution When yee shall see the abhom nation of desolation spoke of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the holy place c. 12. The comming in of dececiuable and damnable spirit false Christs and false Prophets is an other essentiall marke of this matter For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the verie elect 13. Prodigious Aspeas in the heauen strange Ecclipses of Sunne and Moone palpable and more then Aegiptian darknesse afearefull fall of the Startes a shaking in all the powers of headâ—â— do prophecie this point The Sunne shall bee darkned and the Moone shall not giue her light and the Starres shall fall from Heauen and the powers of heauen shall be shaken Descend from the ayre to the earth which giueth vs no lesse fearefull tokens hereof as troubles and perplerities among the nations roarings in the sea and alâ—â—ps palpitatious torobbings and thrauings in all hearts in expecttion of so terrible destruction VpoÌ„ the earth trouble among the nations with perplexâ—tie the Sea and the waters shall roare And mens hearts shall faile them for feare and for looking after those things which shall come on the world 14 The signe of the sonne of man in the elâ—udes shall be set vp as a banner of the approach and end without end Then shall they see the sonne of man come in a cloud with power and great glorie 15 Lastlie to trusse vp the bundle hereof a supine securitie in the hearts of men eating â—rinking huing in daliance as they did in Noahs time whom the stood found so occupied and destroied shal possessie the world and shall betoken the end of the world As it was in the daies of Noah so shall it be in the daies of the sonne of man they eate they dranke they married wines and gaue in maâ—iage vnto the day that Noe went into the arke and the flood came and destroied them all 16 To the former put varâ—etie or nuâ—â—itie of saith But when the sonne of man commeth shall he find faith on the earth These signes are of two kinds 1 Some goe before the Iudgement 2 Some goe hand in hand with it Of the first ranke are these 1 Adulteration of pure doctrine by false and 〈◊〉 doctors 2 Warres and proclamations of warres 3. Plagur 4 Famine 5 Earthquake 6 Catholicke and general corruption to maners 7 Decay of charity 8 The progresse and free passage of the Gospell Martirdome of good men 10 Publicke scandale 11 Setled and stiffe-necked secaritie 12 Terror and horror among men 13 Vocifiration and exâ—ndation of waters SccoÌ„dly The signes that keepe companie with the Iudgâ—nt are 1. The obscucaâ—lon of the sunne 2 The Eâ—lâ—pse and defect
ad downe in Barrels of sharpe nailes some haue béene boared with Aules some punched sobbed with bodkins some haue had their nayles pricked through with Néedles their flesh plucked a péeces with Pincers their skinnes drawne ouer their eares aliue but all these are but flea-bitings to the torments of hell There is no order but eternall horror There is an ende without ende a death that dieth not fire inextinguishable darknesse more palpable then the darknesse of the Aegiptians and blacker then blacknesse it selfe torments more terrible then the torments of men by how much the reach of the wittes of diuels goeth beyond the inuentions and excogitations of men There is the cuppe of the deadlyest wine that euer was drunke vp there be the deepest Graues that euer were made to keepe vs downe that we rise not any more there be the waters of Wormewood and Gall there be those malignant aspects pestilence blood pillars of smoke huge hailstones stormes and terrible tempests wherewith he will plead his righteous cause against the damned That is that capable and wide Winepresse of the Lords indignation where the smoke goeth vp foreuer and there is no rest day nor night there be the infinite and vnmercifull plagues which the Angels of God powre out of their glasse bottels when blood is giuen them to drinke and they boyle so with heate as they eate their verie tongues for griefe Who can better make Chronicle of this place then the purple Glutton that is in it that may say Et quorum pars vno fui who shared in these torments and had his ordinarie allowance in that lake For the torments of hell would haue the vttermost farthing of their due of him and would not depart with a droppe of water for the ease-ment of his tongue As Esau could not ransome his morgaged birth-right with all the moysture of his bodie that gushed out of his eyes so that mercilesse man if he could haue deliuered such plentie of teares as the Ocean hath of waters his request vnto Abraham in that little might not be obteyned Giue we that he had speeded in that slender sute yet what good had it done him when as his other parts as his heart liuer lungs boweâ—â— armes feete fryed and were all in a light fire The torments of hell are to last for a time and times and when time shall be no more For when thou hast laine rosting there so manie thousandes of yeares as thou canst possible name thou art as farre from the ende as at the first As the Gates of Paradise were garded by the Cherubins and the blade of a Sworde shaken so Hell gates are warded by Porters for purpose by the Diuell and his Angels and a Seale set vppon the doore liddes as the Tombe and graue-stone of Christ was sealed vp by the Priests So that as Adam was barred from ingresse into Eden so the damned sort shall bee kept from egresse out of hell The coueriant that God hath made with the day and night that they shall come in their turnes may bee reuersed the Starres may finish their course the Elements shall melt away like Ware before the fire Heauen and earth shall bee renued Sommer and Winter shall cease but the paines of poore Prisoners in Hell shall bee perpetuall Yet more to particularize of the paynes of Hell 1 They shall firsâ— feele the anger of God vppon them as Christ saieth in Iohn The wrath of God abideth in him And as Iohn himselfe saieth to the Pharisees and Sadduces Who hath forewarned you to flie from the anger to come Howe horrible and vnsufferable this is conceiue by the description of the Scriptures of it The Poet passingly portrayeth out vnto vs in his colours the fierce qualities of Achilles giuing him these Titles Scriptor honoratum si forte reponiâ— Achâ—llem Impiger iracundus mexorabilis acer But this is nothing to that linely description made by the Prophet Dauid of the Lords anger thus The earth trembled and quaked the mightie foundations of the hils shaked and were remoued because he was wroth It striketh of 〈◊〉 one side with woe and on the other side with woe as not â—epenting of yâ— it doth wherfore the Philistims said Woe vnto vs woe vnto vs who shal deliuer vs out of the haÌ„ds of tnese mightie Gods Iob aggrauateth it thus The pillars of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe Isaiah laieth it downe with these notable circumstances of amplification At my rebuke I drie vp the sea I make the floods desart their fish rotteth for want of water and dieth for thirst I cloath the heauens with darknesse and make a sacke their couering The like plummets of Lead doth Ieremy hang vpon the heeles of Gods wrath to make it most heauie to vs. I haue looked vpon the earth and lo it was without forme and void and to the heauens and they had no light I beheld the mountaines and lo they trembled and al the hils shooke I beheld and lo there was no man and all the birds of the heauen were departed I beheld and lo the fruitfull place was a wildernesse and all the Cities thereof were broken downe at the presence of the Lorde and by his fierce wrath For thus hath the Lord saide The whole land shall bee desolate yet will I not make a full ende As he saide to Samuel When I begin I will also make an ende or rather he will make no ende his indignation being endlesse The rage of the rankest euemie among men may be qualifyed if not it must dye with him But Gods anger is euerlasting as hee himselfe is euerlasting The hostilitie of men may with counter-hostilitie bee resisted though his Quiuer bee an open Sepulchre and all his armie verie strong if not when hee is in the extent of his crueltie and hath done his worst hee hath but eaten thine Haruest and thy bread bee hath deuoured but thy sonnes and thy daughters hee hath but eaten vppe thy sheepe and thy bullockes thy Vines and thy Figg-trees and destroyed with the Sworde thy fenced Cities But Gods wrath is vnappeaceable irremediable incomprehensible Of the anger of God Moses speaketh thus Fire is kindled in my wrath and shall burne vnto the bottom of hell and shall consume the earth with her encrease and set on fire the foundations of the Mountaines Father Chrysostome saieth that it is farre more sharpe to see the angrie countenance of the Iudge then a thousand hell fiers 2 It is also one degree of their punishment to be separated and diuided from God according as it is in the forme of the sentence Depart from me ye cursed of which we haue formerly intreated 3 Their third plague shall bee their hellâ—â—h companie the Diuell and his Darlings for so it is laide out in the definitiue sentence in these wordes Prepared for the Diuell and his Angels 4 â—et the eternitie of their