The gallants burden A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the twenty nine of March,…The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March,…

Now if after this Physic given, I should ask many, how they feel the Pulses of their Consciences beat? I presume on this reply: (Notum loq•eris) you but guild Gold, and minister to us such Physic, as we have taken before. All this we know; (we do not evermore ply your understandings with new things; but lay old, almost dead & forgotten, fresh to the Conscience:) I ask further, how much of this have you practised? and still look for an affirmative answer, All this, have I kept from my youth.

Now if after this Phisicke giuen, I should aske many, how they feele the Pulses of their Consciences beate? I presume on this reply: (Notum loq•eris) you but guild Gold, and minister to vs such Phisicke, as we haue taken before. All this we know; (we doe not euermore ply your vnderstandinges with new thinges; but lay old, almost dead & forgotten, fresh to the Conscience:) I aske further, how much of this haue you practised? and still looke for an affirmatiue answere, All this, haue I kept from my youth.

Let us reason & discuss this matter a little. To Enquire, is hearing, or rather harkning to the word to Return, is repenting: to Come, is believing, or rather looking more toward perfection, proceeding into the ripeness of Faith. This latter is so necessary, that we can not come to God with his acceptance; our comfort, if we leave our Faith behind us; without this, impossible to please him, to be rewarded of him: This our Charter whereby we hold all our Privileges, our Title in Capi•e to Earth and Heaven: But (Sub •udice Lis est) the great Judge of Heaven shall one day censure it: mean time, give me leave to help thee, peruse this evidence of thy Faith, whereon thou so presumest. Christ dying, made a Will, sealed it with his own Blood, wherein he bequeathed a certain Inheritance to his brethren: the Conveyance is the Gospel, (this his Testament:) the executor of this Will, is the Holy ghost: our Tenure and Evidence, is our Faith. Now, thou layest title to Jerusalem for a child's part: What's thy title? in Christs name and right: what conveyance did Christ ever make thee of such a portion? Yes, he conveyed it to me by Will: What, by a special name? no, but by a general title to all believers: That I am one of these heirs, my evidence; my Faith. Let God alone to try thy Faith: If thou