Adam's fall . By Woman and an apple , man-kind fell , By Womans Son yet all again grew well .

ADam , the first man in the world was the first that over threw it ; he was the King of all the Earth , and deposed from his Crown : Paradice was ●is Palace , & from that he was driven : Eden , was his Garden , and from that he was beaten . The Beasts of the Earth , the Fishes of the Sea , and the Birds of the Air , were all made to serve him : but he rebelled against God , they rebelled against him ; He gave them Names , and lost his own ; Birds never sung such Tunes , as when he first heard them ; but after his fall , they did not sing but mourn .

A Woman caused all this woe : the Woman was seduced by a Serpent , Man by that Woman , and both were Serpents to him . Yet for all this , God took pitty of mans weakness : for as the first Adam brought man-kind to a Bar , so the secund Adam brought a Reprieve : Man restored by Christ . Adam ruined all , and Christ restored all The Devil would then have seized on the World , but God snatcht it from him , and took it into his own hands .

Adams weakness begat Sin , Sin brought f rth Death , and Death Damnation .

The last Day . The Trumpet blows , the Dead arise , A dreadful Sessions , yet none dies .

FOr the tryal of Adams treason , a Sessions will be call'd , Adams treason paid . him . the Day dreadful , the Iudge terrible , the Iury severe , the Evidence impartial , the Cryer of the Court as thunder , the Indictment fearful as Lightning , a wretched Soul the prisoner , and all the Nations that ever have been , or now are , the standers by .

Oh what a day will this be ! a day of Terror , a day of Triumph , a day of confusion to the Wicked , a day of comfort to the Godly , The last day a comfort to the Godly . a day of Rejoycing to the Sheep and Lambs , and a day of howling to the Wolves and Goats .

This will be the Last day , for no more days shall ever be after ; there must never be another Sun , nor any other Moon , or any more Stars ; all the Lights of Heaven will be put out , and yet a greater Light be seen , than ever mortal eyes beheld .

The Courts of Kings , the Palaces of Noble Men , the Mannors of Lords , the Banquetting-Houses of Rich-men , the full Barns of Farmers , the Cottages of Husbandmen , and the Stalls under which Beggars lye , will be as one , and all come to nothing on that day .

All the Kings upon Earth , all the Nations under those Kings , and all those slaves that have been trod upon by those Nations , shall be called on this day to an open Tryal ? Death then shall see an end of her Reign , the Grave will then be satisfied ; nothing must remain but time , and that time must wait upon eternity .

On that day the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout , and an Arch-Angel shall come with a great Power and Majesty , 1. Thes . 2.16 . and he shall sound a Trumpet , whose sound shall be heard over all the parts of the World , and with his Trumpet shall Summon all Nations , and all sorts of people to come t● the general Iudgment ,

Who shall appeal from this Summons ? who shall be able to avoid this Iudgment ? What he●rt will not tremble and quake at the terrible sound of this voice ? All that ever have been , or now are must come to judgement . This voice shall take from Death all her spoils , and force her to restore and pay back again whatsoeuer she hath taken from the World . All that are living shall be changed , all that are dead shall be alive : the Prophets and the Patriarchs , the Apostles and Evangelists , Martyrs and virgings shall there stand in white . The Graves shall open , and deliver their bodies , those bodies shall resume their own Souls , and those Souls shall appear together : Earth , Water , and Fire give up their dead . The Sea shall give account of those whom he hath drowned : the fire of those whom his flames hath con●umed : whom the sword of Tyrants , the Saws , ●xes , & Wheels of Hang-men have mangled and cut to pieces , shall at this day have every Limb put into it 's right place , every Ioynt and bone set together . For on a whi●e throne one shall sit , from whose face Heaven and Earth sh●ll flye away , and their place shall no more be found : Apo. 20 11. before him shall stand the dead both great and small : the books shall be opened , The books of our lives and one book which is the book of Life : and the dead shall be judged of those things which are written in these books , according to their works . The Sea shall give up her dead , De●th and Hell theirs , and Death and Hell shall be cast into the Lake of Fire , which is the second .

This day is called the last day , Why called the last Day , because it is the end of all days , the end of the World , the consumation of Weeks , Months , and years ; no Day shall ever again be set down in any Almanack .

It is called the day of anger , or the Lords day , Why the Lords day , or the day of anger . for now he will be revenged of his Enemies , the Lords day , because all other days have been the days of Men , in which they have aviled , rejected , and done what they would themselves in contempt of God , but on this day God will punish such as have abused his Goodness , and rewarding such as have set forth his Glory .

The Signs before the Day . When it shall be none knows , yet it must come , And these are signs fore-going the day of Doom .

OF that day and hour knoweth no man , Mar. 13 no , not the Angels that are in Heaven , neither the Son himself , save the Father , watch therefore , for it is uncertain whether the Master of the house ( being gone into a strange country ) will come at even , or at midnight , at the Cock-crowing , or at the dawning .

How beit , certain signs shall go before this day , by which signs , ( as by the Evening , Men judge of the following Morning ) we may prognosticate , not only of the neerness of the time , but of the Terrors which will accgmpany it .

St. Mathew says , Mat . 24.5 . The sins going before this day before the coming of this day , ohere shall be great Wars and Troubles in ehe World , Nation shall rise against Nation , and Kingdom against Kingdom , and there shall be great Earthquakes in many places , and Pestilence and Famine , and terrible things in the Air ; and other great Signs and Wonders . St. Luke says , there shall be false Christs , Wars , Sedition , Hunger , Luke 21 Wars . plagues . Plagues , Famine : Prophets betrayed to their own Parents , by their own Brethren , Friends , and some of them shall be put to death .

These are the Trumpets , the Pursivants , Vancurriers , and Heralds , which go before and make way for the Iudge to come ; then the day of Sessions drawing nearer and nearer , there will appear other Messengers , far more fearful , far more terrible : For thus saith the Lord by Ezekiel ; I will cause the Stars of Heaven to be darkned on thee , and I will cover the Sun with a cloud , and the Moon shall not shew forth her light , and I will cause all the Lights of Heaven to mourn , and I will send darkness over all the Land .

The coming of the Iudge .

Christ his coming to judgement A● flo●d of fire THese warnings , and these dreaful Embassies being sent beforehand , at length the Iudge himself approaches , before whom goes an Vniversal flee which shall burn and consume to ashes , all the Glory of the World : the Fire shall be to the wicked a beginning of their pains , and to the good an induction to their Glory .

O says Malachy , who may abide the day of the Lords coming ? & who shall endure when he appeareth ? for he is like a purging fire , and like Fulers Sope : Mal 3 4. the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven , and all the proud yea & all that do wickedly , shall be as stubble , and the day that cometh shall burn them up , and leave them neither root nor branch .

The Prophet Ioel Ioel . 2. strikes on the same string and it sounds this horrid Musick : A fire devoured before him , and behind him a flame burneth up : the Earth shall tremble before him , the Heavens shall shake , the Sun and Moon be darkned , & the Stars with draw their shining : This day of the Lord is great and very terrible , and who can abide it

The Prophets muster up their forces Together , to express the Glory and Fears that attend upon this general coming into the Field : and Zephany for his part , sets down thus much That is a day of wrath a day of trouble and heaviness , Zeph . 1. a day of clouds & tempestuous storms , a day of the trumpets and alarm , against the strong Cities , and against the high Towers .

When the Prophits have closed up their tunes , Mat . 1. listen how an Evangelist sings upon the same Note ? As the Lightning that cometh out of the East & shineth into the West , so shall the coming of the son of man be , the Sun shall be darkned , & then shall all the Kindreds of the earth mourn , & they shall see the son of man come in the clouds with power and great glory : and he shall send his Angels and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds , and from the one end of the Heavens to the other .

St. Mark , St. Luke and St. Iohn , be●r their parts in the same Lesson , all of them concluding , That except the Lord should shorten those days no flesh should be saved .

Christ will come as a King , conquerour , a Iudge , a father , a husband a Saviour Christ therefore will come in glory like a King in Triumph , like a Conquerour ; in Terror , like a Iudge ; in Mildness like a Father , in Carefulness like an Husband ; in Wonder , like a Saviour . He is the King of the whole world , all Nations bow at his feet , the Conquerour of Death and Hell : Death where is thy sting ? Hell where is thy victory ? What Iudge ever Rode such a Circuit ? Now the Living and the dead must be arraigned before him . What Father can be more pittiful ? For as he beats us he huggs us , he weeps when he punisheth ; the Church is his Wife , how tender is he over her ? Yet how often hath she gone astray , and made her Face deformed in his sight ? But who , can stand up in greater wonder than he , that in one hand holds Heaven , and Earth in the other ? What Countenance can strike beholders into Love , Astonishment , or Admiration , but this ? whose only voice saves or condemns them .

A Saviour ; what title in the world can be comparable to it ? a Saviour , a Redeemer ; the Names of Emperours , Kings , Monorchs , Princes , Potentates , are to those two but shadows .

The Majestical manner of this Iudges coming is to the life set down by Naham the Prophet in this manner ( viz ) Our Lord shall come like a tempest and f●rious Whirl-wind ; 3 , 4 , 5 , 6. Nah . 1. and the Clouds are the dust of his feet ; He shall take Indignation against the Sea and it shall wax dry , and all the Rivers of the Earth shall be dryed up . The little Bason and Carmelus shall be whithered , and the mount Libanus shall fade and fall away . The Mountains shall quake before him , & hills shall melt ; The Earth shall burn in his sight , yea , the World and all that dwell therein . Who shall stand before the face of his indignation ? & who shall abide the fierceness of his fury ? his wrath shall be poured out as fire and the very Rocks shall become death before him . He shall come to his Enemies as Thomes solden one with another , and as Drunkards in their drunkenness , they shall be destroyed as stubble fully dryed .

The world first drown'd then burned after . The World at first ( for sin ) was drowned , and must at last on this day be burned : a deluge of Water swallowed the one , and a flame of fire must devour the other : not fire alone , but fire and brimstone : not a clear sweet fire , but a black and not some one ; as our sins stink in Gods nostrils , so that fire in which our eniquities are to be tryed , must stink in ours : for all the World shall make but one bone-fire and in the ashes of that fire the whole Earth must be raked up .

the Sun was Virgo when Christ was born but when he comes at this latter Day , in Terrour to Iudge the World , the Sun will be in Leo , as this Almanack speaks , for the Lyon of Juda will then roar , and be heard , and shew his strength ; and then as an upright Iudge , he weighs the thoughts , words and actions of Men : then the Sun will be in Libra ; an even , The Sun in Libra at the last day . but a terrible heavy Ballance must at that time be held in Christs hand .

This Dreadful Dissolution of the world , in which must perish the Earth , the Heavens , Sun , Moon , Stars , Planets , and all that move in the waters or over our heads , is drawn in this excellent picture by the hand of St. John in his Revelation , and in these curious colours , viz. Apo. 10 1 , 2 , 5 , 6. I saw a mighty Angel cloated with a bright cloud , his face was like the Sun , he had a Rainbow for a Crown on his head , his feet were like pillars of fire , of the which one he set on the Sea , and the other upon the land ; the Angel lifted up his arm towards Heaven , and swear by him that liveth everlastingly , world without end , that from henceforth there shall be no more time .

The Sessions , the Iudge seated , the Prisoners at the Bar , the Arraignment and Senten●e . The Iudge sits on the bench , good Men and bad try'd , The bad condemn'd , the good are glorifi'd .

THe Iudge being ( at this dreadful Day of Doom ) placed in his seat of Iustice , it will be a full Court , a mighty Sessions : never in any Country or Kingdom hath been held so great an Assizes . All the Children of Adam must stand before him : All before Noah's time , that were overwhelmed in the gene al Flood , and all the Nations of the world , that ever have been , or shall be , shall at that day be raised out of their graves , and receive according to their deservings .

The Iudge shall sit in Majesty and Glory , round about him will stand Angels , Arch-Angels ; and all the Principalities of Heaven .

Before him all the Souls of men , women and children are Prisoners ; All Bodies shall rise , but not all after one manner ; for the Bodies of such as have done well , shall be fair , beautiful , and brightly shining as the Sun ; but the Bodies of those who in their life time upon Earth have done ill , shall appear ugly , horrid , ill-favoured , and very filthy to behold , in as fearful shape as devils .

The Guilty shall tremble at the sight of the Iudge , the Godly shall rejoyce : Will you see how the Iudge himself will appear , how apparalled , and what Countenance he will carry ; See then what Daniel saith . thus doth he Describe him ; I stood ( quoth he ) attentively , and I saw certain seats set in their places , and the ancient of years sat down , whose garments are white as snow , & the hair of his head like pure Wool . The Throne whereon he sat was like flames of fire , and a River of raging fire issued and came forth from before him , thousand thousands were attendant to serve him , and ten hundred thousand thousands stood waiting before him , and I beheld all this in a Vision of the night ; and I saw one coming in the Clouds , who seemed to be the Son of Man .

This Son of Man must be Our Iudge , before him must be this Arraignment : before his Throne , so built up by Daniel , must all be set ; then the Books must be opened .

Kings Judged At one opening these Books , those Emperors , Kings , Princes , and Rulers of Nations , that have been cruel Tyrants , and not Governed uprightly nor cared for the lives of their Subjects but made Wars more for ambition and for Revenge , then in any Quarrel for Heaven : all these will wish that their Kingdoms might fall upon them , and hide them from the Face of him who affrights them .

All Church-Men Church-men . that have instead of being Faithful Shepheards over their Flocks , been Woolves to devour them . shall hear a Vae , a Woe Pronounced against them : Judges , Courtiers , Iudges that have fained themselves with Bribes , Courtiers that have Flown upon the Wings of Pride , vain-Glory , Faction , and ambition ; Lawyers Lawyers that have eaten up their Clyants : Generals of Armies , Captains , and common Souldiers , Soldiers that have been drunk with Blood : Citizens , Citizens whose false oaths and dec●itful Wares , have to buy Lands , made away their Souls : Farmers Farmers Grassers , and Countrymen , who have murmured at plentiful years . and in deer ones have grinded the faces of the poor . And lastly , common Beggers , who have made idleness there living , Beggars whose mouths have been filled with Cursings , with Prophaness , with damnable Oaths , and with Blasphemy : These , and the rest , and thousand others as bad as these , are sure to be in a wretched estate , when the Iudge and their own conscience shall call them to a Trial .

No Iustices shall sit on this Bench for bribes , to speak in any Prisoners behalf : no Councellour shall be allotted to plead for any man : no Lords Letters can be received .

They that on earth have sumptuous Palaces , and Wardrops full of Embroidered Garments , who every day are wherr●ed thorow the streets in thundring Coaches drawn with four Horses , shows of Foot-men running by : troops of Gallants fluttering before them , Trains of attendants gallopping after them : these shall at this Sessions stand shivering , naked , dejected , Titles are not here regarded . and stript out of all their Glories . Those Titles of High and Mighty , Right Honourable , Most Heroical , thrice Illustrious , thrice Reverent , truly Noble , true Valorous , Right Worshipful , &c. shall here be laid by , and not regarded . A Cobler and a Caesar shall at this Bar stand upon equal terms for Life and Death about one and the same offence , and that is Sin : One Iudge must sit upon both , one Iury go upon both , and one and the same Sentence be laid upon them at their Condemnation .

What will all the Idolatrous Kings , and People , so often mentioned in the Old Testament , say , when they shall see that true and ever-living God whom they mocked at , and blasphemed ?

How will the Iews curse their infidelity , hardness of heart , and obstinate blindness , when they shall behold the true Messia , whom they reviled , spit at , buffeted , scourged , and crucified ?

How will the Romans The romans . cry out up on their Iupiter , and 400 several gods , when they see themselves arraigned before an Omnipotent Deity , and not one of their false ones able to help them

How will Herod , Herod . Caiphas , Caiphas . Annas , Annas . and Pilate Pilate . look , when they see him sit in judgment upon them who was by them basely betrayed , sold , beffled , tormented and condemned ?

Traytor Iudas , Iudas . what Hell wilt thou desperately again east thy self into , to see thy Lord and Maker sit in Glory , whom thou with a kiss betrayedst to a bloody Cross , to an ignominus , barbarous and cruel Execution .

How will the Turks Turks . and all their Grand Seigniors curse their Creation ; and rail on Mahomet their deluding Prophet , when before their eyes sits the Father of all the Holy Prophets , whom they on Earth have laugh'd at : and hated all Christians , because they had their Names from Christ .

Christians . Nay , how will those Christians hang the head , and cry , Woe worth to the Wombs that bare them , and to the Papps that gave them Suck , sithence they have gone astray out of Gods Fold , Lived Licentiously , spent their days in Drunkenness , in Whoreing , Blaspheming , Envying their Neighbours , and in all sorts of varied sins , and have danced hand in hand with Satan ? What will they say : Is this he whose Body was Nailed , Hands and Feet Bored , Sides pierced , whose Mouth had Vinegar and Gall offered to it , with a Thousand Tortures , Disgraces and Dishonours , onely for us , to save us , to pay our Debts , and yet how did we every hour , again and again Crucifie him ? is this he in whose Name ( for Iesus Christ his sake ) when no more than one poor Farthing has been begg'd , we have denyed to give it , when at the same time our Pockets has jingled both with Gold and Silver ? Is this he , who when we have sat at our Tables surfeiting in variety of Wine and gluttonous chear , have denyed our Scraps and our broken Beer to those who on their Knees have asked for the Tender mercies of our Lord Iesus ? O vile , miserable , forlorn , and forgetful Captives that we are .

What will remain after this and the like Expostulations , but beating of Breasts , tearing of Hair , Cursing their Creation , then Howlings , Vlulations , Shrieks , Terrors , fear of Torments before their Faces , and an assurance of everlasting Tortures , which are to follow ; but only this the Sentence , The Sentence . Doom or Iudgment from the Iudges Mouth , and that is in two words only , ( Itae Venite ) Go and come ; Go you Cursed , to those who have done ill ; Come you blessed , to those who have done well , Go you Cursed into everlasting fire , prepared for the Devil and his Angels ; Come you Blessed , & dwell with me in Heaven for ever .

Take heed therefore , O thou Christian , and beware that this Great Day of the Lords comes not upon thee unawars and therefore Watch and Pray at all times , that thou mayest be ready when he calls for Iudgement , to be one of those to whom he shall say , Come you Blessed .