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Of the end of the world and judgement of our Lord Jesus Christ to…Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to…
Of the end of the world and judgement of our Lord Jesus Christ to come, and of the most perilous dangers of this our most corrupt age, and by what means the godly may avoid the harms thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergy by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas PotterOf the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter
London: printed by John Allde, 1580
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Apostle therefore about the beginning of the Chapter, a little before the words that I have recited, doth rehearse in a long beadroll, divers wicked acts and wicked men, And saith that all ages, all kinds, and all degrees of men in this our last time, shall be most corrupt.
The Apostle therfore about the beginning of the Chapter, a litle before the words that I haue resited, dooth reherse in a lōg beadroll, diuers wicked acts and wicked men, And saith that all ages, all kindes, and all degrees of men in this our last time, shall be moste corrupt.
1This know thou (saith he) that in the last days shall come most hard and perilous times. For men shall be lovers of them selves, standing greatly in their own conceits, and seeking for their own gain, lovers of their own gain, lovers of money, scraping the same by hook and by crook, & not refraining from very sacrilege, nor from most filthy Simony. Men shall be very disdainful, puffed up, proud, and vain glorious, also blasphemers, most chiefly ⟨image 35⟩against God, secondly against holy men and against the trueth it felt, and against holy things. They shall be disobedient to their Fathers, to their mothers, to their magistrates, to their masters, and to their teachers, being not only unthankful to God and to men: but also requiting good turns with evil. They shall be wicked men, such as have no fear nor reverence, and such as impudently run headlong unto all kind of mischievous acts. They shall be Astorgoi, without any hearty and fervent charity, without any zelus remorse of love, godliness, and humanity, not loving so much as those that be near unto them, as Fathers, mothers, Children, Wives and kinsfolks. But bitter, cruel, and ungentle, endued utterly with wild and uncivil manners, who also have not the common sense and remorse of nature, measuring all things by affection, by covetousness, by ambition, and greedy desire.