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,…

Let not this Observation slip from us without our use, If God take letters from the name, he intends to take blessings from the person,¹ when Jeconiah's curse is written in the cutting off his Posterity from the throne of David, and himself from the prosperity of the earth, he is called Co•••h: the reason is added, He is a despised person, let him have a shortened name: a broken Idol, and an unpleasant Vessel, &c.

Let not this Obseruation slippe from vs without our vse, If God take letters from the name, he intendes to take blessings from the person,¹ when Ieconiah's curse is written in the cutting off his Posteritie from the throne of Dauid, and himselfe from the prosperitie of the earth, he is called Co•••h: the reason is added, He is a despised person, let him haue a shortned name: a broken Idoll, and an vnpleasant Vessell, &c.

1. 1Jer. 22. 28.Ier. 22. 28.

Thus God crosseth the worlds fashion, by putting them in his Chronicle, which are not here thought of, and leaving those out, which the world boasts of as her glory: to a soul that hath more Affection in her, then Religion, it seems a great matter of pity: that Plato, Cato, Alexander, & some of those mighty Roman Caesars, honoured with the graces of Nature, the bounties of Fortune, & the greatest glory, the forced world could yield them, should yet want a name in Gods Book, a place in his Kingdom. Greatness is the fairest object to the eye of the world, Goodness to the eye of Heaven: There is a glorious splendour in pompous Honour, to draw the eyes of admiration after it; it little affects the sight of God, if Virtue gives it not a Lustre: he that is goodness and greatness it self (when others have it in the concrete, good and great, he hath and deserves it in the abstract) is pleased (to prefer his title of Optimus, before that of Maximus) and first to be called Good,