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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

could be no more sene THese few examples I haue here added in the end of the Sermon to let men see that before great alterations or channges of kyngdomes and common weales God sendeth wonderfull tokens therof to signifie the same before it come to passe whereby with Martin Luther the author of this Sermon we may well conclude that before the alteration of the whole world which is the last day he will send many signes and tokens therof which he sheweth for the most part to be already fulfilled and therefore the end of all thynges is now to bee looked for bycause there hath happened of late dayes many wonderfull Eclipses or darkenyngs of the Sunne and Moone many Sunnes haue bene sene at one tyme many rayne bowes many terrible blasyng Starres and other straūge sightes of fire in the ayre many great tempestes of wyndes with flouds and earth quakes which haue destroyed and ouerflowē both Cities and whole countreyes Wherof here might be added diuers examples both of such as happened before Luther did write this Sermon as also since that tyme But they are almost innumerable and haue bene partly sene with our owne eyes and are at large set out in Print by Conraedus Gesnerus Marcus Fritschius and others who haue written no small bookes of such wonderful and straūge thynges as by the prouidence of almighty God haue happened before tyme to this end that we seyng these thynges come to passe forespoken by our Sauiour might the more diligently watch for hys commyng least we folowyng the example of the lewde seruaunt leade a carelesse lyfe in all kynde of wickednes and he commyng vpon vs vnwares geue vs our portion with hypocrites and dissemblers in euerlastyng fire prepared for the deuill and hys aungels God graunt vs therfore to watch for the commyng of our Sauiour that we beyng prepared with oyle in our Lampes he may take vs with hym vnto euerlastyng●…lyfe Amen Esay 65. 17. and. 66. 22. 2. Thes. 2. 3 Mat. 20. 1. Mat. 20. 6. Math. 24. 49. Mat. 25. 4 Actes 17. ●…1 The effect of the Gospel ▪ and the cause why it was written Signes be fore y last day proued by humane reasō groū ded vpon a certayne truth Rom. 15. 4 Example hereof are the inhabitantes of Hierus●… ▪ before whose destruction God sent most horrible tokens thereof Whereof som they re garded not ▪ some they enterpreted to signifie victory ouer theyr enemies cōtrary to the true meanyng of them and of God which sent them ▪ and contrary to the expresse wordes of our Sauiour which before had foretold them Luke 14. 43 The faithful haue no more cause to feare the signes of y last day the Noe had when the flud came ▪ or Lot at y destruction of ●…odome Go●…orra which s●… company of them that then were preserued is a signe of the little flock which goeth by the narrow gate Math. 14. Math. 24. 29. Prou. 17. 22. Reade that discouery of the Spa nish Inqui sitiō for the further declaration of these wordes Gene. 4. 8. ●…e ●…7 41. Exod. 1. 15 1. Sam. 19 11. and. 1. Reg. 18. 13. and. 19. 2. Math. 2. 16 God●… king ●…oure as it ●… takē for the whole world can ●…t be enlarged but ●…s it is taken for the congregation of the Christians when hys worde is truly preached so it may and is dayly enlarged 1. Cor. 15. 19. Apoc. 22 ▪ 20. Unto this place apper tayneth the hystory of of y Emperour Char les the v. of that name who the yeare of our Lord. 1521. sēt for Luther vnto Wormes a Citie in Germany by an Herauld of armes with letters of safe cōduct to whom hee came boldly although some persuaded hym that hee should neuer haue come from thēce alyue There he was examined before the Emperours Ma●…esty of y bokes that he had wri●…tē and whether he would recāt them or any thyng in them contained Who aunswered that he would ●…cant so much as any mā was able to proue false by the worde of GOD otherwise he would deny nothyng that hee had written After a while when no other aunswere could be gottē of him ▪ the Emperour gaue hym leaue to departs without daūger bycause of his safe conduct a●… though many laboured to the contrary especially the Popes Embassadour as in the booke of y Actes and Mon●… mēts more playnly is declared Esay 4. 11 Psal. 146. 3. Psal. 33. 10 Prou. 21. 1●… The ●…romise of God is the ground of true fayth which promise was thoro●…ly ●…oted in Luthers hart as ap peareth eu●… dently by his words The secō●… part of the Sermon Christes 〈◊〉 ●…araphastically expounded ●… Cor. ●… 9. The difference betwene the prognos●…ication of Christ and Astrono●… Certain similitudes whereby it is declared with what ioy wee ought to looke for y commyng of ou●… Sauiour to Iudgement Math. 27. 34. The commoditie of affliction in this world Mat. 24. 30. 1. Thes. ●… 3 Math. 24. 27. 1. Cor. 15. 52. This saying of the wicked is after a sorte true For the good preacher may bee a cause of trouble first bycause where y word of GOD is sincerelye preached the deuill moueth and rayseth tumultes to suppresse it secondly where it is preached and not obeyed the greater shall bee the plagues of the stubburne and stiffenecked people Mat. 6. 10 Mat. 6. 13. The Adder as they say euery spryng of purpose ▪ wresting him selfe thorow a narrow place lea●…eth hys olde skynne behynd him as it were leauyng of his old coate ▪ and putting on a new one This is a a true saying that we can not pray faythfully nor beleue in god a right excepte we ioyfully ●…ooke for commyng of our Sauiour to iudgemēt Mat. 24. 30. and. 25. ●…1 Act. 1 ▪ 11. 10. 42. 17. 30. 2. ●…im 4. 1. Pet. 4. 5. Esay ●…6 19. Ezec. 37. 5. Iob. 19. 26. Mat ▪ 12. 42. Ma●… 12. 25. Luc. 14. 14. Ioan. 11. 24. Luc. 321. 1. Cor. 15. 12. Colos 3. 4. 1. Thes. ●… 14. Ioan. 3. 36 5. 2. ▪ Rom 6. 33. Dan. 12. 2. Mat. 19. ●…9 and 25. 45. Ioan. 3 15. and 4. 1●… 36. Ioan. 6. 27. and 40. and 47. and 54. Ioan. ●…0 28. and 12. 15. and 50. and 17. 2. Act. 1●… 46 48. Rom. 2. 7 ▪ and 5. ●…1 and 6. 22 Gal. 6. 8. Tit. ●… 2. and 3. 4. 1. Cim 1. 16. and 6. 12. 1. Ioan. 1. 2. and 2. 25. and 5. 11 ▪ and 13. and ●…0 Iude Epist. ●…1 M●… ●… ▪ 16. Exod. 20. 2 Gal. 3. 24. Mat. 6. 9. Apoc. 6. 10. The Saintes of God do not require vengeance of theyr enemyes bycause of priuate hatred but bycause they know thē to be Gods enemyes and do rage with deuelishe fury agaynst his holy Church and agaynst hys euerlastyng truth And in this case the loue of our neighbour hath no place where it is repugnant to the loue of god whose glory we ought to perferre before the commodities of all the world Therfore when man is such an enemye vnto GOD that we must needes hate the one and loue y other we must loue God hate man Psal. 139. 21. and in Gods cause pray for the destruction of man Ier. 18. 11 ver 21. as agaynst the enemy of GOD vppon a zeale and feruēt loue of Gods glory especially if they be such as we perceaue offende not of ignoraunce but of malicious stubburnes and that agaynst theyr cōsciēce But in our own cause as they are iniurious vnto our own persō we must rather pray for man then agaynst mā as we are taught by the exāple of our Sauiour and Steuen Act. 7. 60. He●… 4. 3. Gen. 3. 15. Reuel 13. 8 Ioan 1. 2●… 1. Pet. 1 ▪ 19 Ro. 16. 25. Ephes ▪ 3. 9. Colos. 1 26 2. Timo. 1. 10. Tit. 1. 2. ●…it 2. 13. Math. 10. 32. Mat. 10. 38 Rom. 8. 17 2. Tim. 3. 12. Math. 10. 25. Ioan. 16. 2 and. 33. Math. 24. 48. 1. Thes. 4. 17. 1. Cor. 15. 32. Ioā 14. 27 Iob. 1. 17. Rom. 8. 11. Ioā 7. 38 Act. 9. 31. Rom. 5. 3. and. 10. 17. 1●… 14. 5. 1. Lor. 2. 10 1. Lor. 5. 7 2. Cor. 5. ●… 〈◊〉 6. 15 Eph. 4. 24 That is best which is new vnto the world but old vnto God. Colos. 3. 9 Collos. 2. 8 Heb. 11. 1 1. Pet. 1. 12 Rom. 8. 22 A mynde speach attributed to creatures without lyse Esa. ●…4 23. and not properly but figuratiuely ▪ as whē we say the earth doth prayse the Lord that is to say it doth declare hys wonderous workes and the workemanshyp therof ministreth a man matter to prayse the Lord so it desireth y last day that is to say it being accursed dayly more and more for our synne sheweth our miserable estate and what cause we haue to ●…ament and to desire our deliueraūce by the cōmyng of our sauiour to iudgemēt 2. Pet. 3. 13 Apoc. 2●… 1. Esa. 65. 17. and. 66. 22. Here an age may be taken for the space of two thousand yeares whereof there are but thre in all the world one frō the beginning of the world vnto the law the secōd frō the law vnto the cōmyng of our Sauiour and the last from the commyng of our Sauiour vnto the ende of the world which shal be shortened But how much it is vncertain Phil. 3. 20 Collos. 3. 3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. * Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegi●… Regi●… Maiestatis 2570.

doubt he would celebrate with much solēnitie geuyng God thankes that he had lyued to see that ioyfull houre Euen so ought we to do when we see these signes mentioned by our Sauiour Christ in this Gospell If fire water thunder and lightenyng fall from heauen so thicke and with such abundaunce as though all thinges in a momēt should vtterly be destroyed We must thus thinke with our selues that it is the prouision and ordinaunce of God our Kyng Captaine Wherby he destroyng and ouerthrowyng the prison house will deliuer vs which are kept bound in the kyngdome of the deuill vnder sinne afflicted of the world with manifold miseries calamities Wherfore then should we be afrayde when we see these thynges Why should we not rather ioyfully suffer al maner of tormentes wherwith the world and the deuill molesteth vs that our redemer may come the sooner deliuer vs For without his comfort and consolation we were of al men as I said most miserable and might well wish that we had neuer ben borne and that we had no God at all Therfore let vs cōfort our selues with these ioyfull cogitations knowyng for a certaintye that our deliuerer will come and that these signes are as I may terme them his Haroulds of armes wherby he giueth to vs to vnderstand that he him selfe is not farre behynd In the meane season although in the world we be tossed vexed and afflicted with many stormes thorow the intollerable wickednes of vngodly mē although they geue vs vineger mixed with gall to drinke bysides other dayly misfortunes as sickenes pestilence dearth warre which are greuous to the body or to the outward man yet we must suffer and abyde all these thynges with patience We must be contēt to drinke this bitter drinke for a time that y swete drinke which hereafter shal be geuē vs may be the more pleasant to our tast and that we may therby be moued the more earnestly to pray for the cōmyng of our true sauiour otherwise we should behaue our selues like sauage wild mē which bereaued of their wyt haue no perseuerance of the daunger that hāgeth ouer their heades euen like the secure and carelesse world which knoweth not how to repent yea we should be drowned in the desire and loue of worldly honor wealth and pleasure at the length cast of all care of Gods word and vtterly perish with the wicked world Therfore this bitter drinke is commodious vnto vs For it breedeth in vs a saciety and lothsomnes of this life and comfortably causeth vs to hope for a life much more excellent now whē our true Sauiour shall come in the cloudes with power great glory Who shall deliuer vs from all daunger receiue vs to him selfe into the life euerlastyng then the which nothyng cā be more ioyfull But vnto the wicked worldlyngs which set their whole delight vpon this lyfe caryng nothyng for God hys commyng shall not be very acceptable For in a moment he shall bring them to nought so that they shall be constrained to lye in euerlastyng paynes and tormentes which arrogantly contemne and despise both hys signes and hys word And whereas this is no small grief to good Christians to consider in their myndes such a great destruction of the world whereby they trouble them selues for their sakes which shall perish our Sauiour by the wordes contained in the latter part of this Gospell withdraweth their myndes from such cogitations mouing them to cōsider rather how necessary their owne ▪ redemption is then the great destruction of the wicked which for their desertes God of his iustice hath prouided for them For they can neuer make an ende of persecutyng the Gospell which most contumeliously and blasphemously they spit at cōtemne and scoffe and rashly iniuriously and by force greue oppresse the preachers therof from which wicked purpose they can not bee withdrawne by any admonitions intreatynges rebukes or threatenynges A man were as good speake vnto a stocke or a stone as vnto thē for they will not beleue before they try by experience how wonderfully they were deceaued and what punishment God hath prouided for such yron harted infidels They are so secure and careles that what so euer happeneth terrible to the eyes or horrible to the eares that they turne from them selues vpō vs saying that we are the cause of all miserie and calamitie of all daūger of all mischief Finally when we haue done all that we cā do by preachyng praying counsaylyng yea and aduēturyng our owne liues to profite y world we are rewarded with vtter contēpt hatred enuy and most crafty dealyng which are able to make a mās hart to cleaue a sunder for sorow and grief of minde Therfore God cannot chuse if he will beare any sway in earth but once at the length let them see by experience that his word and threatninges are true which they scorne and iest at and that he is able to deliuer out of trouble hys Christian children most miserably afflicted And bycause the childrē of the world do despise his Passion death and resurrection and all thinges that he did or speake with a secure and carelesse mynd therfore once at the length they shall be terrified and feared when we shall lyue pleasantly and ioyfully in euerlastyng lyfe Therefore if thou haue any sparke of pitie in thy brest take pitie rather of the afflicted Christians which must suffer so many miseries and calamities in the world yea rather lament the state of the Gospell and the most holy name of Christ our God in the which thou wast baptized and called to be partaker of lyfe euerlastyng which the wicked worldlyngs do so vyly and blasphemously spit at despise treade vnder their feete reuile with most spiteful words What kynd of pitie call you this to take pitie of these cruell murderers hauyng an hart so stony that it cannot repent which will not amend their life and make an end of their mischieuous actes before they bee vtterly destroyed with their forefather Pharao and such other as haue bene rebellious against y maiesty of almighty god I had rather tenne worldes should perish ten tymes then one true Christian should continue in sorow and grief of minde for their sakes which so outrageously contemne and despise Christ our Sauiour and all Christian Religion Therefore it is our parte to pray vnto God with a faithfull hart feruent desire that his kyngdome may come In like maner we had nede to wishe and pray that the world may be ouerthrowen and vtterly destroyed which most arrogantly and blasphemously doth set it selfe agaynst Christ and hys bloud and can neuer make an end of his raging fearcenes and cruel persecutyng of poore Christians For so that forme of prayer which Christ our Sauiour hath prescribed vnto vs teacheth vs courageously and with confidēce to pray that this day may come and that we cry without ceasing vnto god that once at