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A09841	A newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens liues, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof this 1600. yeare of Christ, (erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee) which is from the Creation, the 5548. yeare. Conteining sundrie singularities, worthie of observation, concerning courses of times, and revolutions of the heauen, and reformations of kalendars, and prognistications: with a discourse of prophecies and signes, preceeding the latter daye, which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch. With a godlie admonition in the end, vpon the words of the Apostle, to redeeme the time, because the dayes are evill. By M. Robert Pont, an aged pastour in the Kirk of Scotland. The heades are set downe in certaine propositions, in the page following.	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20104; ESTC S114916	62,367	102

in this life for the most part is spent to witte in vanitie idlenesse yea over often in vice and wickednesse and that little time which is bestowed in vertue or godlinesse is commonly most wearisome As when men are occupyed be they Magistrats or judges in hearing the plaintes of the poore and execution of justice be they inseriours or craftel-men or labourers in doing their handie worke and appoynted labour to the profit of themselues and their families But in spending of it which by that meanes they winne as in drinking playing or vaine games there is no hoe not falsherie to be occupyed night and day and in matters of godlinesse see we not what fassherie it is even to many not of the worst sort to spend the space of an houre or little more in hearing the word of God wherein standeth our salvation who will not like nor tire of sit at table thrise as long to feede the bodie yea oft-times to over-burden it with meate and drinke to whome it is so irksom shorter time to haue their soules fedde with that word which is the more precious an delicat food of everlasting life VVherfore seing the most part of this world regards so little of time but pas it over so lightly to their great damnage and perrill of their own soules we the faithful ought to be the more earnest to exhort admonish one another to occupy the short time we haue heare not as the common sorte of carelesse men vses but in such waies as wee may bee able at least in some measure to giue account to him that ●es placed vs in this earth as vppon a skaffold to play our parte and if we haue neglected or mispent the time by-past to take heede to recover the losse thereof in times comming Nowe this is the cause and ende wherefore Paule in the words of our text exhorted so diligently the faithfull of his daies to redeeme time by recovering the losse by-past making much of the time present of time to come so long as they haue it apprehēding greedely the occasiō offred vnto them to do wel And this the Apostle speaketh to the Gentiles of his time being newly converted to the knowledge of the Gospell having respect to their-by-past life and conversation spent in vanitie wickednesse and ignorance of God according to the which tendeth that saying of Peter in his first Epistle 4. chap. verse 3. as he writeth also of the same matter saying It is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the time past of the life after the lusts of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lustes drankennesse in gluttonie and in abhominaeble idolatries And this same our Apostle to the like purpose in another place sayeth We know the time that the houre is now to rise from sleep for our salvation is nearer then when we beleued the night is past the day is at hand Let vs therefore caste awaie the workes of darkenesse and put on the armor of light that we may walke honestlie as in the da●e not in gluttony drunkennesse nor in strife nor invying not in chambring wantonnes but to put on the Lord Iesus Christ take no thoght for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it So here the meaning of the Apostle is where he speaketh of redeeming of time that the faithfull take greate diligence in the recovering of that which is by-past and lost by walking more circumspectlie and diligently in the trad of godlines in times comming taking a similitude from worldly men worldly affairs As if a Merchant hauing slipt slept his businesse in not comming in due time to his market should be put in remembrance to be more vigilant in times comming and vse more diligence in vttring his wares in time to come or as if it were to fore-warne vs not to be like vnthriftie spenders wedde-setters of lande who spend ryotously the money they take vpon it haue taken no heed to pay the yearely duetie or annuel-rent to the creditors but let it slip over the longer they so do the Land is worse to redeeme vnlesse they take better heede in times comming So they that driue time to amende their liues from daye to daye and suffer themselues to be carryed awaie in a custome and habite of evill doing repent over-late when they cannot amend the former losse Therefore the Apostle in the words preceeding desireth the Ephesians to take heede to walk circum spectly not as such vnwise men but as the vvise and vnderstand what the vvill of the Lorde is And as wee are made light in the Lorde so wee walke in the Light and sight of him and his Angelles having them as witnesses of all our doings Al-be-it no mortall man should knowe the same and so to become wiser then the common sorte of the Worlde as being instructed in the Schoole of Christ the fountaine of all true wisedome This being the minde and meaning of the Apostle concerning the redemption of time wee haue to marke the cause of this his earneste admonition which hee addeth immediatlie saying Because the dayes are evill not that the dayes were evill of themselues but this hee speaketh in respecte of the time and daungerous estate of Christians in his dayes the worlde being also then full of corruption and offences and therefore more difficill to the faithful to walke warilie therein the Gospell then having so manie adversaries and the Divell himselfe occupying a tyrannie in the Worlde so that the time coulde not be dedicate and consecrate to the service of GOD vnlesse the same were in a manner redeemed the lost time by-past bought againe with the losse of worldlie pleasures and forsaking of the vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse Seeking after newe occasiones of Godlinesse which the Worlde and worldlings by euill example would plucke awaie from vs. And therefore he admonisheth the Collossians likewise to walk warelie towards them that are without redeeming the time meaning toward the infidels that they being mingled amongst them might not onelie beware least they were defyled with their corrupt manner of living and so by processe of time become like to them but also to beware to giue them occasion of slander by any apearand evil ensample of life thereby to make them to speake evil of the Gospel and also to bee more cruell and bente to persecute them for the Gospelles sake therefore hee willeth them to redeeme the time by taking occasion of well dooing Wheresoever he same was offered and striue against all impedimentes and that because of the evill dayes and greate corruptiones that then reigneth in the World Now if the Apostle had neede in his dayes to vse this exhortation howe much more is it needefull in this corrupted age wherein we are of the which the same Apostle PAVLE speaketh vnto TIMOTHEE in the second Epistle the third Chapter in this manner Knowe thou this that in the laste dayes there shall bee perrellous times For menne shall

bee lovers of themselues boasters proude cursed speakers dissobedient to Parentes vn-thankfull vn-holie vvithout naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers intemperat fearce despisers of them which are good Traitours heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more then of GOD hauing a shew of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Turne away therfore sayth he from such Surely if ever there was any time since the beginning of the world or any age where-into such corruptions and maners of men abounded this may bee holden the principall wherevnto charitie is waxed could and all kinde of iniquity waxed ho●e and hath full libertie And albeit the Apostle in this place by the last times meaneth in a manner the whole estate of Christs kingdome that was to follow his dayes yet the nearer the Sunne draweth to an ende the more danger and greater troubles no doubt were to ensew For as Christ himselfe doth forewarne vs In these latter dayes shall aryse warres and tumultes of warres famine pestilence pers●cution for the Gospell with other calamities and inconveniences which fall out against mens bodies but the corrupt and evill maners of men also should infect the soules of those that bee not ware with them and that which is worse the Apostle here meaneth not only that such vices shal reign in these latter times amongst the vngodlie and enemies that are without the Church but even of domesticall professoures with the same that would be reckoned amongst the members of his Church for GOD will haue the same so exercised that she shall be subject to beare albeit not to foster such pestiferous corruptions within her bosome for which cause we haue al great neede in these daies of this fore-warning that wee should learne in time to beare patientlie our estate and to eschew the evil example of those men who are now mingled amongst vs whose companie is declared to be the more dangerous that he shewed that such men polluted with so manie erroneous faults should neverthelesse professe outwardlie and haue a shew of godlinesse for so is the nature of Hypocrites to cloke their sinnes with extreame impudencie Of such sorte were the Pharisees of old and in our time the filthie Papistical Clergie and over-manie of those who pretend aye reformed Religion For the Apostle here maketh a catalogue of such signes as appeare not outwardlie incontinent but lurk and are hid vnder a certaine feined holinesse For where shall wee finde an hypocrite but he is proude a lover of himselfe and contemner of others yea fearce cruell and deceitfull but fo hee will not appeare to mens eyes vnlesse he be more narrow●ie espyed by them that haue the spirit of discretion to know them by their fruits Of these Hypocrites the Apostle Paule in his other Epistle to Timothee giveth two examples which hee declared also shall be in the latter dayes wherein some shall departe from the faith taking heed to deceivable spirites yea teaching devilish doctrine to witte forbidding mariage and commanding to abstaine from meates which God created and ordained to bee received with thanks-giving Noting in speciall besides vther heretickes the Papistes with their superstitious decrees wherby they binde the consciences of men with these two errovrs many vthers contrarie to the libertie of the Gospel persecute by fyre sword true Christians that wil not assent to their devilish decrees therefore wee may well conclude these are the dangerous dayes whereof Paule meant and that the faithfull haue great neede to take heede to them selues And by all appearance this same present yeare of Christ 1600. with certaine fewe yeares immediatly following are like to be yeares of great troubles to the Church of God and persecution intended by the Papisticall tyrannie against all true professoures of Gospell wherein they may be able to invade as may witnesse that late League made in Ferrar at the mariage of the King of Spaine and that mis-made Cardinal Albertus Arch-duke of Austria celebrate by Pope Clement the eight which hath bene interprysed to be begunne and to take execution in some parts of Almanie and of the Low cuntries and great vowes and preparationes made as we heare not onely against those cuntries but against this Ile of Brittaine and inhabitantes thereof the which the Lorde in his mercie turne to the confusion of the interprisoures thereof as he did before And giue vs grace that wee may with watching and prayer depend vpon his majestie trustling and waiting for his deliverance occupying the time and ocasion offered to vs of peace and quietnesse in such sorte that suddane destruction apprehend vs not before wee beware according as wee haue bene forewarned of our maister Christ and of his Apostle Peter declaring that his latter comming to iudgement shall be as in the dayes of Noah when as they were eating and drinking marying and giuing in Mariage vnto the day that he was entred into the Arke and then came the floude and destroyed them al. So shall the comming of the Sonne of man be sayeth he We see now the worlde is in as great and greater securitie then it was then and al the sins that reigned thē in the world aboūd now more then they did Therefore the sinnes that we reade of them of that age were two in speciall the one was the vnlawfull conjunction in mariage of the children of God or the faithfull seede with the cursed posteritie of CAIN and that there were then Gyants in the Earth to witte mightie oppressoures vsurping ●yrannicall dominion over men such as was not seene in the worlde of before And haue wee not these and manie moe greater sinnes and enormities raignning at all libertie in our dayes for who now seeketh allyance of mariage with the Godlie for vertue or Godlinesse cause But be they Godlie be they vngodlie the first question is what may they spend how much men may giue with their daughters as to tyrāny oppressiō was there ever greater since the world stood But besides these specials kindnes fidelitie and loue true feare of GOD which is principal where be they to be founde But in place thereof craft doublenesse deceite insatiable greedines and such other sinnes as was recited before and prophecied by PAVLE beare the swinge in such sorte that it is marvell howe a common societie can stande anie longer amongst men And if this were onelie amongst the Romane sorte of prophane menne it were more to be borne with but even they who will be in account haue place in the Church of God are no better for the most part And to cease now to speake in particular of other forrayne cuntries comming to our selues in this Iland what is there in England and Scotland but a naked profession of Religion with out fruites following In England a proude ambition both in Church and amongst the whole multitude Yea proude profanitie with contempt and disdayne of others In Scotland a sluggish securitie and in both the Landes a loath-some haiting of the worde