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A07087	A second sound, or vvarning of the trumpet vnto judgement Wherein is proued, that all the tokens of the latter day, are not onelie come, but welneere finished. With an earnest exhortation, to be in continuall readinesse. By Anthonie Marten sewer of her Maiesties most honorable chamber.	Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1589 (1589)	STC 17491; ESTC S107009	43,965	86

him can no more be remoued out of his seate than euer the vngodly seede of Antichrist are so offended therewith as they betray into wicked hands their owne countrimen their kinred and acquaintance yea they hate their own brethren seek their destruction And this did Christ foreshewe to happen in the ende of the world Fiftly he declared that at the same time manie false Prophetes should arise and deceiue a multitude For when Antichrist perceiued that he might not preuaile by anie of those vile and violent meanes that hee had practized but that his power neuerthelesse decreased and his al hominable superstition and idolatrie was daily more and more disclosed he erected certein Seminarie places for learning with good maintenaunce to the same for all those that would resort vnto them of all nations to the ende they might bee sent home againe after they haue been certeine yeres ripened and rottened in superstitious doctrine that by their fained hypocrisie and by their false fables and prophesies they might reconcile all those that were fled from the Antichristian faith promising them so manie and so great matters as their holy Father by his Commission had giuen them in charge And these ministers of his be they which Paule the Apostle said To haue the forme of godlinesse but denie the power thereof haue by their false prophesies 2. Thess 3. caried away manie poore soules captiue into hell and themselues also are damned for euer without repentaunce And this token of the Lordes comming is nowe likewise fulfilled Againe Christ hath declared that before the iudgment day iniquitie shall abound and the loue of manie shall wexe colde But what kinde of iniquitie do we think shal aboūd before the second coming of Christ Verelie al kinde of sine and wickednesse that euer was in the world since the creation of the same not onely the secrete sinnes that proceede from mans heart whereby the whole man is corrupted but the publike offences and enormities done by man against man against God against the Church against the Common weale and against all iustice godlinesse and Religion And is it anie maruell why all wickednesse shoulde abounde now towards the ende more than euer before why the charitie of man towardes man why the loue of man towardes God why the zeale of man towardes godlinesse should now bee lesse than before though now the word of God be more plentifullie preached that before the sacraments more sincerely ministred than before heresies false worshipping more sōudlie conuinced than before the true Church from the false more euidently discerned than before Antichrist himselfe more plainly detected than before and our saluation now more neere at hand than before No verely For now is the time that Christ prescribed neuer before Now is Sathan our olde enimie loosed now it Antichrist his seruant reuealed For euer since the time that the kingdome of Christ hath been reuiued by preaching of the Gospell the Dragon hauing the time of his thousand yeeres captiuitie welneere expired and perceiuing his dominion to be but short is come foorth to aide and strengthen and heale the wound of the beast against the Saintes of God and against the Lambe Who ioyning their forces together seeke by their craftie and lying hypocrisie not onely to bereaue men of their saluation by deceiuing and bewitching of their soules and by driuing them forwarde to all manner of sinne and wickednesse but also to destroy their bodies and all by bringing in vpon them all manner of cruel Inquisitions warres torments miseries and deathes that man can deuise Wherefore the nature of man being euer more and more corrupted since the fall of Adam therewithall driuen by the violent inticement of sin and perswasion of the diuell it is not possible without the mightie assistance of Gods spirite but that iniquitie should not onely abound but euen nowe be growen to the full And to speake more particularlie of the sinnes against God against man and against our owne selues I say that they doe now by meanes of Antichrist and his adherentes more infinitely abounde than euer Whereby it may euidently appeare that the dissolulution of all thinges is at hande Was not Lucifer an Angell of light and desired in his heart to be but equal with God And is Antichrist any more thā man somewhat lower than the Angels and yet exalteth himselfe aboue God Did Adam breake any more commaundements of God then one when he was ashamed and cast out of Paradice But do not we daylie breake all the commaundements of God and yet are not once ashamed of our nakednesse Was not Cayn counted a reprobat because he was angrie with God and killed his owne brother about the accepting of their sacrifices But are not wee euery day vexed and disquieted against God if but the least attempt that we go about succeed not according to our desire But bee there not also as greeuous and horrible paricides and murders among vs euen for the smallest and least occasions Was it not counted a monstrous and horrible Idolatrie of the Children of Israel when they forgot God that had brought them out of the land of Egipt and worshipped a golden Calfe which they themselues had made because that Moses the seruant of God and their generall Captaine was but fourtie dayes absent from them Agayne is not the Idolatrie in these dayes of them that professe the name of Christ beyond al comparison greater when they forsake him that redeemed them from the power of Sathan and do daylie worship stockes and stones and a peece of vnleauened bread when as Christ himselfe their head and Captaine is continually present with them by his holy Saincts and Godhead vntill the end of the world Was not the infidelitie of the Children of Israell counted exceeding great when as they beleeued not the promises of GOD who had done so great wonders for them both in Egipt and at the red Sea For which cause they themselues were destroyed and their children were made to wander fourtie yeares in the wildernesse for the sinnes of their fathers But is not the infidelitie of the Christians in our time much more horrible when as GOD hath done for them farre greater thinges then euer he did for the Children of Israell euen by sending his owne Sonne for their sakes into the world to deliuer them from the slauerie of Sathan and euerlasting destruction of bodie and soule where he keepeth them as the apple of his eye from being consumed of the nations round about them when hee talketh with them daylie and familiarlie from heauen out of his holie worde when hee feedeth them from aboue with his owne precious bodie when hee indueth them with grace supernaturall by his holie spirite when hee blesseth them with all his benefites both bodily and ghostly and yet are not we more vnfaithfull vnthankfull and vnfruitfull than the Children of Israell They beleeued not because the time of the promises vnto them made

of heauen shal bee moued The sonne of God shall sit on his throne the wicked shall receaue the iudgement of death and the faithfull bee carried into the euerlasting Kingdome Wherefore the Lord shall come not tarie He promised signes of his comming those signes he hath sent He promised that he would come immediatelie after those signes wherefore those signes beeing accomplished hee will come and that sodainlie like a mightie tempest For heauen and earth shall faile but one iot of his promise shall not faile Wherefore insomuch as wee see so manie of the promises alreadie fulfilled let vs be patient in the rest and not murmure against him as the Children of Israel did in the wildernesse least a sodaine destruction come vpon vs as it did vpon them and we be cast aliue both bodie and soule into the bottomlesse pit They which beleeue not in the cōming of Christ doe imitate the foolish exāple of Iulius Cesar who being often warned before to take heed to himself least some great treason were wrought against him in the Ides of March made but a mock thereof the same day that hee was slaine saying to some of his familiars which counselled him not to go that day into the Senate house Why saith he they haue tolde mee this good while that I should be in danger when the Ides of March were come they are come and yet I am safe I saith one they are come but they are not yet past And so by his owne follie negligence he was the same day slaine In like manner these that doe but mocke at the Lords comming do see indeed that al the signs which were promised should come to passe are founde to bee true but yet because Christ is not come together with the signes they thinke perhaps that he will not come But ô ye fooles ye see them to be come indeed but ye see them not yet finished neither shall ye see them so soone ended as ye shal see the promise of his comming iustified Some motions yee had perhaps this last yeere to think vpon that day more than ye be accustomed because of the great expectation of the Prophesie of the yere 1588 and for that ye heard by manie probable reasons and coniectures of men drawen from the cōsent and agreement of times from the coniunctions of planets which threaten either finall destruction or wonderfull alteration and from the equalitie of numbers in the yeeres of the worlde 5550 and 5555 which iumpe with the yeres of Christ 1588 and 1593 that either the world should then ende or else verie strange things should then happen Howbeit this yere being past yee seeme now to liue more securelie yee feare God lesse yee care lesse for religion yee delight more in vanities yee sinne more greedelie yee prouoke Gods wrath more greeuouslie yee runne more headlong into damnation and yee sing your olde tune Where is the promise of his comming more reprochfullie than euer yee did before Neuertheles if so manie and so strange things happened that yere as the like did not in so short space in many ages before mē hauing no more knowledge therof thā that which could be gathred by cōiecture of the stars by cōparing time with times what effects do we think shal folow vpō the sure infallible prophesie warranted by the spirit of God himselfe in the canonicall scriptures If the starres that are but creatures can point to the time when God will worke such mighty operations in other of his creatures as against that yere they did whereby the proud lustie mindes of mightie Monarchs are abated wherby puissant and strong armies are dissolued whereby the most inuincible nauies and strong castles of the sea be destroyed whereby the leagues cōspiracies of princes shal be made frustrate wherby they that haue plaid so manie horrible tragedies in the Church and haue caused the bloud of so manie hūdred thousands to be spilled shal the same yeere finish their daies some by bloud some by death Nay if the pore herrings of the sea haue this yere brought vs letters of warning from God written vpon the skins of their little bodies that Christ cōmeth that quickly what think we shal the performāce of gods eternal promise or the least word that proceedeth out of his mouth bring to passe against al the tyrants and blood suckers of this worlde against all the enemies of his Church and religion against all them that make but a mocke at the glorious comming of Christ against all the strong and mightie Cities of the earth yea and against the consummation of the whole globe of the world But ye my masters that giue so great credit to the reuolutions of the heauens and to the threatning of the starres planets look wel to your selues from henceforth for besides that the Lord hath promised very shortly to com himselfe and call you to a reckoning hee hath put also into his creatures new accidents the effects whereof shall continue not one but one and twentie yeeres at the least if the Lorde come not before and those greater than haue euer bin since the world was made the straungenes whereof shall amase you and the effects thereof shall trouble you when ye shall see the Sunne and Moone so often and in so short time eclipsed when you shall see the brightnes of heauen at noone time darkened when God shall powre out his wrath aboundantly by plagues and famines by winds and tempestes by fearefull ouerflowings of waters and by the ruine and destruction of some Prouinces when ye shall perceiue the strength of all creatures diminished when the earth will not bring foorth her benefites when by this time all truth and righteousnes will be vanished all loue and societie among men will bee dissolued when all men will altogether loue themselues and no man will any whit loue another when naturall affection of men towards their owne will bee prostrate when all obedience to God and to Magistrates to parents and maisters to Kingdomes and Common weales will be abolished whē nothing will bee done for duetie and conscience but all for feare and necessitie when all truth all charitie and all goodnes will be abandoned and when there shall be nothing but pride enuie dissimulation oppression lust and couetousnes in all the whole earth when the earth it selfe will craue at the hands of GOD Come Lord Iesus come quicklie and deliuer me from this intolerable burden which the foundation that I am builded vpon namely thy heauenly word is not able anie longer to beare Wherefore If Christ haue discouered vnto vs vpon whom the latter endes of the world are come all the signes and tokens which he promised of his comming If he haue sent Preachers into the world to proclaime the Gospell of his kingdome If he haue reuiued as it were his owne name againe that laie hidden in Images and dumme Idolls If he haue resumed vnto himselfe his owne authoritie

many hundreth yeares before neuer heard of All which things since they most and chiefly happened or began about the time that the Gospell in our age was reuiued by preaching and when the kingdome of Christ began to be restored they bee manifest tokens of the ende of the world Hath not these many and mightie Kingdomes of England Scotland Denmarke Swethland Poland Germanie Belgica and a great part of the large kingdome of Fraunce all which be as much as the rest of Christendome retired themselues and been reclaymed within this space from the Romish bondage and from Antichristianitie to the true worshipping of Christ by beleeuing of the Gospell preached vnto them Was not the Arte and skill of Printing deuised by Christians and specially practised in our time by the meanes wherof though not only yet chiefly all other Religions in the world are found to bee most shamefull and Idolatrous and only the true and sincere worshipping of Christ magnified and extolled in all the world Were not all the learned tongues and languages renued by Christians in our time from a rude barbarisme wherein they had many ages been a sleepe to an excellent and perfect fourme both of speaking and writing Is not the desire of Christians in our time more earnestly bent to seeke a perfection of all Arts and Sciences and a more exquisite forme of Religion then euer was in any age before vs since the sincere times of the Primitiue Church Were not all the order and maner of Instruments and habiliments of warre and warfare in our age wel neere contrarie to that it was before especially by the deuise of gunnes which the deuill together with his deliuerance out of bondage deuised for the speedie destruction of mankind and great effusion of bloud all making way to the second comming of Christ our King Was not the finding out of the newe or as I may say of the nether world by the indeuour and trauell of Christians in our time one of the most wonderfull accidents that hath happened since the time of Christ and euen as a signe and token before the latter day that GOD which hath shut vp those nations so manie ages before in vnbeleefe would now yet in the latter time call them to the knowledge of his Sonne if any perhappes would hearken to his word that they also might bee saued and healed by the death of Christ Is it not likewise a speciall token of the end of the world that such extraordinarie Starres and Comets such straunge and rare Coniunctions of the Planets such meruellous remouings of earth whereof no mortall man can giue any naturall reason together with mightie ouerflowinges of the Sea whereby whole Countries and people are destroyed But is it not as great a signe and token hereof that within so fewe as fifteene yeares now to come there shall happen fiue Eclipses of the Sunne besides many others of the Moone such and so terrible as the like neuer happened within so short a space since the beginning of the world Doth not also the sodaine decay of mans strength and stature age together with the vnwilling mind he hath to all godlines vertue and charitable actions prognosticate vnto vs any lesse than the things before Moreouer do not the trees the plants the hearbes and fruits and all other sencelesse things of the earth which should bee for the comfort of man most sensiblie shewe vnto vs by the decay of their strength of their taste and vertue which not long since they had in greater measure that within a short time there shall be no more vse of them Nay doth not the earth it self complayne that she hath powred out of her bowells in a manner all the store of her treasures and commodities wherewith she was fraighted for the vse of man Yea do not all the creatures of God earnestly expect when the Sonne of God shall appeare that they also may be deliuered frō the bondage of corruption But shall wee not account this also to bee a great signe of the ende of the world that it pleased God in this age and neuer before both to indue man with knowledge and to leade him as it were by the hand about the whole compasse of the earth That when he had seene all and compast all and yet found all to be nothing but trouble and vanitie and vexation of minde by sea and land in all places where he came he might glorifie his Creator and Sauiour which had giuen so excellent guiftes and vertues and knowledge and ciuilitie and so iust a Religion vnto his Christian people before so many and so great nations which in comparison of them liued without God without faith and without all humanitie and might the rather bee drawne from the loue of this earthly mansion to long for the day of Christ and to bee translated to a more ioyfull and euerlasting habitation To be short The number of Prophets that GOD doth daylie send to admonish all people of the latter day and to giue them warning to be in a readines because they teach no lyes but such things as they finde in the word of God are no lesse to bee beleeued then those that prophesied of the first comming of Christ To make an ende hereof the opinions or rather firme beleefe of sondrie seuerall learned wise men so farre distant asunder by places but so neerely conspiring together by the vnitie of their iudgements and consent of their spirits as touching the comming of Christ do declare that the Bridegrome is euē now comming and craue vs to wayt for him all houres of the day and night that we may enter with him into the mariage feast Where bee now these Atheists where bee these mockers where be those that walke after their own lusts and say where is the promise of his comming Behold the winter blasts are now gone and the comfort of the spring is come The Lord shall come speedelie foorth like a Lion out of his denne and will be auenged of them that speake blasphemie and will destroy all the workers or wickednesse Beholde the Arke is now welneere finished the number is accomplished the Church established the chosen confirmed The trumpet hath sounded The kings sonne must be maried The feast is prepared the bidden guests haue refused All sorts of people in all the high waies of the world are gathered the wedding is furnished The king and the bridegroome are comming The earth and the sea shall yeeld vp their dead the sonne of man shall appeare in the cloudes he shal come with exceeding glorie Angels without number shall attend vpon him All nations of the worlde shall drawe vnto him The godlie shall triumph and reioyce in him The generatiō of the wicked shal tremble to see him The godlie shal stand at his right hand the wicked on his left Heauen shal be opened the earth shal bee consumed the sea shal be dried The Sunne the Moone shal be darkened and all the powers