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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,…
The gallants burden A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the twenty nine of March, being the fifth Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March, being the fift Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...
London: printed by W. White for Clement Knight, 1612
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.
Qvò brevior, •ò obscurior: the shorter this Prophecy is, the more mystical. In holy Writ, these two things ever concur: (Sententia brevis▪ res ampla) a finite Sentence, an infinite Sense: As in a little Map we see a world of Countries, and what the Foot cannot measure in many days, the Eye peruseth in a moment: this is the little Map of Idumea or Edom, (wherein we may survey the state of that whole Region) not much unlike the situation of it, standing in this Chapter betwixt Chaldea and Arabia: The Burdens against them both are heavy, and the Plagues aggravated with more circumstances: The burden of Dumah, (though short) shall weigh with them grain for grain.
QVò breuior, •ò obscurior: the shorter this Prophesie is, the more mysticall. In holy Writ, these two thinges euer concurre: (Sententia breuis▪ res ampla) a finite Sentence, an infinite Sense: As in a little Map we see a world of Countries, and what the Foote cannot measure in many dayes, the Eye peruseth in a moment: this is the little Mappe of Idumea or Edom, (wherein we may suruey the state of that whole Region) not much vnlike the situation of it, standing in this Chapter betwixt Chaldea and Arabia: The Burdens against them both are heauy, and the Plagues aggrauated with more circumstaunces: The burden of Dumah, (though short) shall weigh with them graine for graine.
As you travail with me into this Country (by the guidance of that enlightening spirit) tie your considerations to two especial things;1 the Map, the Moral. In the Map you shall find 1. an Inscription, 2. a Description: In the Inscription observe,2 1. the name of the ⟨image 4⟩Country: 2. the nature of the Prophecy. The Description rests it self on 3. Objects; 1. a Mountain, 2. a Watchman, 3. an Edomite: where is shadowed 1. under the Mountain, Security: 2. under the Watchman, Vigilancie: 3. under the Edomite, Scorn. Now, if you ask (as they did the Prophet Ezekiel) what these things mean?