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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00931	A bright burning beacon forewarning all wise virgins to trim their lampes against the comming of the Bridegroome. Conteining a generall doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially earthquakes both particular and generall: a discourse of the end of this world: a commemoration of our late earthquake, the 6. of April, about 6. of the clocke in the euening 1580. And a praier for the appeasing of Gods wrath and indignation. Newly translated and collected by Abraham Fleming. The summe of the whole booke followeth in fit place orderly diuided into chapters.	Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 11037; ESTC S102280	47,166	126

secret woulde the Lord haue made such a short answere to his Disciples when they put out the question to him their Master For they helde not their peace in the presence of him but put foorth their demande saieng Lorde wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome of Israel But he spake to them againe and said It belongeth not vnto you to know the times which the Father hath put in his owne power This answere had they not asking the question of the houre or of the day or of the yeare but generally of the time Uaine therfore are such séeme they neuer so wise and learned in the eies of the world which make their vaunt that they know the end of their owne life are not ashamed to professe though seduced by signes of birdes flieng by opinions of the weather-wise by the doctrines of Magicians and such like sinister meanes that they can tell when the world shall be at an ende But is not these mens laboure lost whiles they goe about to reckon and cast account how many yeares are to come before the worlde shall ende Séeing we haue heard euen from the mouth of truth it selfe that it is not in vs nor for vs to knowe it and that it passeth our abilitie whatsoeuer wée are to atteine to the certeintie of a secrete which God the father hath reserued vnto himselfe alone And here I can not sufficiently muse at * C. Lactantius and diuerse others not a fewe men I confesse déepely learned in matters touching the Church and verie well practised in those pointes that some of them notwithstanding affirme that foure hundred yeares some that fiue hundred yeares and some that a thousand yeares should be accomplished and fulfilled from the ascension of our Lorde vntill his last comming at doomes day Wherein they are found false and out of the way as verie children can tell And therefore I thinke it not worth paines taking to declare in this behalfe vpon what reasons proofes each of them build their opinions both because I haue confuted them alreadie in place conuenient and also for that they leane wholy to coniectures of mans wit not bringing in any thing that is vpholden by authoritie of Canonicall scripture He saith S. Augustine who spake these wordes It is not for you to knowe the times which 〈◊〉 Father hath put in his owne 〈…〉 all Calculators and 〈…〉 to holde their 〈…〉 meddle no further in this 〈◊〉 A number of triflers therefore verie rashe and presumptuous busie bodies are to be laughed at or rather to be contemned a sort of foolish Heretikes Scismatikes I meane in this our age which seducing the simple people dare openly affirme and teach both at what time in what moment the end and consummation of this worlde shall be notwithstanding the voice of the Gospell which these men haue alwayes in their mouthes doth prooue the flat contrarie saieng Of that day or of that houre no man can tell neither the Angels in heauen nor the Sonne but the Father c. It shall suffice vs therefore to knowe this that there is nothing more certeine than as time passeth away so this world shall perish and that nothing is more vncerteine than the time wherein it shall decay Which ende of the worlde to be at hande and euen at the doores not onely by the holy Scriptures is manifest for as well the preachings of the Prophets as the sermons of our sauiour Christ haue said that it shall be shortly but also by the signes and wonders which haue gone before it and appeared to all the world in euerie place as most assured warnings of the last day and proclamations as it were from God vnto vs as wée haue alreadie declared by many examples is most cléere and euident Now after what maner this consummation or end of the world shall be and what shall become thereof whereto the glorie and pompe of the same shall growe who so is disposed to search the Scriptures shall easily finde But there are Preachers in the worlde whose voices agréeing with the cries of the Prophets tell vs plainly that the ende and ruine of althings will come to passe and that after a while painting before our eies the last age of the worlde as it were wearie and readie to fall I thinke it not necessarie also particularly to repeate those things which haue béene foretolde by the Prophets hereafter to happen before the ende come vpon vs considering that I haue omitted none of them in the worke of our Centuries whither I referre the Reader for the fuller declaration hereof intending God being my guide with a fewe woordes more to make an end of this matter ¶ What all and euerie one of vs ought to doe seeing the ende of this worlde approch Chap. 11. FOrsomuch as it is certeine after the rehearsall of so manie testimonies worthie of credite and warranted by the things themselues which are nowe done in the worlde with such confusion and disorder beside that very manifest euen by the signes and wonders which haue appeared both in heauen and in earth that The most terrible and fearefull day of the Lord is at hande and the end of this world verie nie euen at the doore we sée that there remaineth nothing else but this if we regard our owne safetie namely to exhort one another by all meanes that we may not to abuse the good grace of almightie God not wilfully to winke when we sée such great store of light but to haue our eies open and to behold the strange sights and wonders which we haue séene euen within the compasse of our memorie knowing for a certeintie that these and such like are as it were proclamations made vnto vs from almightie God whereby he calleth vs to repentance and therefore not to be contemned as nothing pertinent or belonging vnto vs. For it is as true as the Gospell that God is long suffering excéeding patient and full of forbearance doing what he can by these signes and wonders to soften the hardnesse of our heart and he had rather shew vs the terrors of his iudgements and the threatnings of his right hand than laie the same vpon vs in his vengeance Let vs not flatter our selues because we are Christians therefore God will forgeue vs though we doe not repent No no he spared not the Angels but when they had transgressed he thrust them downe into hell and therefore doubtles he will not spare or forbeare vs in our sins Againe let vs not deceiue our selues supposing peraduenture that such sorrowes as are to come are not so horrible as we haue set them out in this behalfe For God himselfe hath foretold and said it should be so who neither doeth lie nor can lie swearing with an othe that it should so come to passe Verily verily I say vnto you heauen and earth shall passe but my wordes shall not passe Neither let vs to be