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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

shaken the moste mightie Kings the Henries and Fridericks and their children and nephewes the Levvises and innumerable princes With the same the Pope hath subdued vnto him self people otherwise very fierce and couragious The same hath taken away the moste holy and moste learned men in the world and hath compelled the simpler and more vnlearned sort either vtterly to kéep silence or els to dissemble For at the length by this his outragious tirany be made kings and princes thrall and obedient vnto him so that all mē by hepes haue gréedely héertofore and now doo stil beare armor in defence of this new God and to maintain and by violence to force vppon all men his new Religion I doo fain nothing héerin neither reliue I my gaule neither speak I any thing for hatered or fauour of any man God the iudge of all men is my witnes in this behalf Moreouer all historyes bothe olde and new doo make mention of these things Finally what is doon in our daies and with what persecutions are oppressed not the blasphemers not the contemners of Religion not the adulterers not those that are defiled with incest with whordomes with fornications to speak nothing of more filthy acts not murderers not Sorserers not Traitors not deceitful persones couetous men Vsurers or Theeues and oppressors of widowes and fatherlesse children but the professors of the true Religion and the confutors of the Popes abominations They that doo not sée it and with gréef mark it are more blinde then the Iewes who whē they heard this saying Christ when he commeth shall hee do mo miracles then this man hath doon and when also the thing it self did beare witnes in the meane while moste apparantly yet by no meanes did they beléeue in him Yea how is it that they more fréendly doo spare and fauour Théeues and murderers then the loouers of the Euangelicall trueth The Iewes are suffered and borne with all the Turks the Sarasens and the moste naughty and moste hurtful men of all The Gospellers alone beeing vnharmful are neuer thought worthy of any pardō These onely séeme méet to be dispatched out of the way without any mercy So that héerin also thou maist perceiue Christes saying to be verified You shall be hated of all men for my names sake Also The time wil come that he vvhich shal kil you shall seem to doo honour vnto God Again who is ignorant with how great straitnes euen in the Papistrie moste cheefly in the Abbies are vexed men not altogither euil and many with troubled consciences Who knoweth not that God and godly men not a few pine away euen with very sorow But who shall recite vnto vs the age of late daies and in this our time notable and famous in signes ●●ūders and straunge tokens I wil not now speak of the ciuil and forain warres seditions schismes sects debates tumults trecheries treasons vnfaithfulnes wiked leages mens crueltie moste extreme and destructions moste horrible and those not a few Of these things who cannot gather that faith and loue is become colde vpon earth and that extreme wickednes boyleth in the harts of men Furthermore we see that the world at this day beeing in such horrible daūgers is moste abundantly stuffed and replenished with such as despise God and make a mock of all trueth the moste religious that is to say they vnto whom this name is giuen and who haue their liuing gaines by Religion make Religion it self a very game Vnto vs it is a good perswasiō said that moste holy one which maketh vs Lords ouer the whole world And I am a shamed to rehearse those things that are spoken by learned and religious fathers in this kinde of matter The Epicures béeing a company of Swine doo laugh and plesantly make a iest at the looue of vertues and at the calamities which the faithful doo patiently sustain for Religions sake at the immortalitie of the soule and the resurrection of the body also at the rewardꝭ of the godly and punishments of the wicked and at those things whatsoeuer which are spoken conserning spirituall and heauenly matters More ouer we sée that the people of all sorts one with another are déeply drowned in a carelesse securitie and that therefore reigneth among them a monsterous looue of surfetting and drunkennes Moste men doo promise to them selues many hundred yéeres yet to come and therfore they make mery or els with dissimulation doo let passe all prechings of of repētance of fasting and of sobriety of faith and of prayers of the end of the world now at hand of the eschuing the infection of euils Gene. 18. But if any doo somewhat fréely reprooue these Swine for their shameful filthines by and by he heareth that which Loth heard at the hands of his Citizins the Sodomites Thou camest hether as a stranger and wilt thou now be a Iudge among vs But I pray you which be the daies of Noe Loth if these be not they All good admonitions and the very woord of God it self are moste extremly despised What remaineth therfore ye fathers and brethern honorable in Christe and moste déerly belooued but that the last day of our Lord is not very far absent and that therfore all our shéep committed to our charge are to be exited and stirred vp vnto a diligent and sober watchfulnesse In vain shall we cry out when the very day falleth vppon vs. For it shall inuade vs vppō a sudain like vnto a lightning Wherfore the mindes of all men must betimes afore hand be made ready and verily with none other doctrin thā with the same of Iesus Christe our Lord of which I haue hitherto intreated with as much breuitie as I could Notwithstanding I doo aduise all men The day yeere of the last iudgemēt cannot be discerned héerin ernestly to take heed lest in scanning and sifting out of the time or els the day or yéer of the last end we be to bolde or rather to rash as sōe lewd felowes there haue béen of late yéeres who haue as it were with their finger poynted out the day and the yéer of the finall iudgemēt therin shewīg forth their folly worthy to be mocked of all men Christe Iesus our Lord the iudge of all men who according to his Godhed Mark 13. vnderstandeth all the councels of his father said in the gospel of S. Mark Of that day and time no man knoweth no not the Angels which are in Heauen neither the Sonne him self as touching his humain nature but the father alone And a little after Ye knowe not when that time shal be Therfore as the Lord him self hath taught vs to speak so let vs speak and say Take heed watch and pray For ye knovve not when your Lord wil come in the euening or at midnight at the Cock crovving or in the davvning lest if he come vnwares hee finde you sleeping VVherfore vvhē ye shall se these things cōe to passe vvhich I haue

intent to teach and commend the same but to the end wee might knowe them the better iudge therof not according to the flesh but according to the spirite of God and also that we might warely auoid them And more ouer apparently beholding those things to be fulfilled in the world which the holy Prophets of God and the Apostles of Christe haue foretolde should come to passe we might vnderstand that those times are now at hand corrupted and perillous and for that cause should pray the more ernestly and watch the more diligently The Apostle therfore about the beginning of the Chapter a litle before the words that I haue resited dooth reherse in a lōg beadroll diuers wicked acts and wicked men And saith that all ages all kindes and all degrees of men in this our last time shall be moste corrupt The discrption of the manners or men of the last age This knovve thou saith he that in the last daies shall come moste hard and perillous times For men shal be loouers of them selues standing greatly in their ovvne conceits and seeking for their owne gaine louers of their owne gaine louers of money scraping the same by hook and by crooke not refraining from very sacriledge nor from moste filthy Simony Men shal be very disdainful puffed vp proude and vain glorious also blasphemers moste cheefly against God secondly against holy men and against the trueth it felt and against holy things They shal be disobedient to their Fathers to their mothers to their magistrats to their maisters and to their teachers beeing not onely vnthankful to God and to men but also requiting good turnes vvith euil They shal be vvicked men such as haue no fear nor reuerence and such as impudētly run hedlōg vnto all kind of mischeuoꝰ acts They shal be Astorgoi vvithout any harty and feruent charitie vvithout any zelus remorse of loue godlines and humanitie not louing somuch as those that be neer vnto thē as Fathers mothers Children VViues and kinsfolkes But bitter cruel and vngentle endued vtterly vvith vvilde and vnciuil manners vvho also haue not the common sence and remorse of nature measuring all things by affection by couetousnes by ambition and greedy desire They shal be vnmindeful of their couenāts of their faith of their bargaines and of their promises beeing vnfaithful and moste vain and vtterly inconstant and moste light persons finally back biters and slanderers scoffers and mockers of holy good honest thīgs peruerting also things vvel spoken into a peruerst meaning and vvresting things after their levvd affections that are singly and plainly vttered They shal be vvanton and outragious namely in the apparel of their bodies in buildings in garments in meat and drink filthy gluttōs drounckerds whoremongers adulterers and Sodomits proud Pecoks nice and folish Phrigians They shal be moreouer Anemeroi vngentle vnciuil rude barbarous and euen vvilde men rowe wild vndfihisch lijt therfore Aphilagathoj such as greatly regard not or looue not good and honest men neither delight in their company For as they abhorre the best things and accustome themselues to the vvorst so they cannot abide a faithful Counceller Therfore they shall betray these men that looue trueth and godlines They shall doo no thing sincerely and vncorruptly but shall intangle all things vvith practises as they call them vvith crafty fetches and traitorly suttleties Moreouer they shal be heddy and vvilful dooing nothing by the rule of reason and iudgement but all things rashly stoutly and obstinately For they shal be of a minde altogither proud puffed vp and svvelling They shall looue their pleasures more then God him self and godly things For they shall conuert the very religion in to gaine to the intent they may haue to bestovve vppō their pleasure Certes thou maist sée very many that more hartily delight in Tauernes then in Temples doo more estéeme the furnished daintie yea drunken feasts then ecclesiasticall preachings sober and ful of the spirite of God For the matter is now come to this point that moste men haue in déede an outward shewe and resemblance of godlinesse and will be called moste holy moste spirituall moste catholike moste right belonging and very good Christians but yet in the mean season they lack the vertue and power of godlines and true Religion and are moste vaine Hipocrites and dissemblers men without all religion and humanitie abominable and execrable And hitherto hath the Apostle declared these things concerning the corrupt men that shal be in the last time and the naughty conditions of all kindes of all ages and of all degrées But haue not the Prophets and euen Iesus Christe him self the Lord of Prophets foreshewed these things also before hand For in the Gospel omitting the Prophets he speaking moste manifestly said Luke 18. But vvhen the Sonne of man shall come shall he finde faith vppon the Earth Math. 24. And again Iniquitie shall vtterly abound and the looue of many shall abate And yet again moste manyfestly As were the daies of Noe saith hée so shall be also the comming of the sonne of man For as they were in the daies before the flud eating and drinking marying and maried euen vnto the day when Noe entred into the Arke and knewe of nothing vntill the Flud came and tooke them all awaiy so shal be the comming of the Sonne of man Luke 17. In like manner also as it happened in the daies of Loth they did eat drink bie sel plant and build But what day as Loth went foorth from the Sodomits it rained fire and brimstone from Heauen and destroyed them all so shal be also the day in vvhich the Sonne of man sbalbe reueled Wherfore there is no cause to shew forth in many woords what kinde of men they were in the daies of Noe and Loth seeing our Lord him self hath most plentifully declared the same vnto vs namely that they were men altogither carnall vtterly despising diuine and holy things séeking nothing but carnall matters so that they might séem to degenerate or be turned in to certain brute and wilde beastes But who can deny that such are at this day the greatest parte of the common people and the nobilitie and rulers and almoste all wise men Beholde what Kings and Princes doo and also the spiritual fathers like wise the learned and excellent men in the world Harken what the common people talketh of Religion of rightuousnesse of honestie and of the hope of the world to come You shal be forced to cry out with the Prophet and say There is none righteous no not one Rom. 3. There is none that hath vnderstanding There is none that seeketh after God All are turned aside and are become vnprofitable There is none that dooth good no not one Their throte is an open Sepulchre they haue vsed their tungs vnto disceit and the poyson of Asps is vnder their lips whose mouth is ful of curssing and bitternes their feet are swift to