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

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