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,…

There are infinite ways that conduct to seeming Honour, excluding Virtue; the end of them all is shame: since of a natural man it is true, that (Quan•ò ornatior, tantò nequ•or) The more adorned, the more wicked: our Bonnets veil, our Knees bow to many, whom the sight of Heaven and Virtue, scorns: This imparity of men living, is made even by death, who sweeps all (Beggar and Prince) with his impartial Besom, into one Bag: and when Judgement comes, they are made odd and unequal again; for then, the least in the worlds estimation, shall sit down with the blessed Kings and Patriarchs in Heaven, when Kings and Patriots without grace, shall be excluded. If you desire your names to be registered with the pen of Eternity, write them your selves with the pen of Charity: the Book of Grace, is the counterpane to the Book of Election: they are written in Heaven first, and there God reads them: We cannot see into this Book through the thick clouds of the Air and Sin; let us write them in the leaves of Obedience, and there read them:¹ they stand sure with God before, not sure to us till now:² Write them in the entrails of the Poor, in the ruins of the Church, by you bettered, repayred, maintayned, (Non norunt haec monumenta mor•,) and you shall one day hear the Judge himself, read them in the audience of all the world,³ to your joy, crown, eternity of bliss.

There are infinite wayes that conduct to seeming Honour, excluding Vertue; the end of them al is shame: since of a naturall man it is true, that (Quan•ò ornatior, tantò nequ•or) The more adorned, the more wicked: our Bonnets vaile, our Knees bow to many, whom the sight of Heauen and Vertue, scornes: This imparitie of men lyuing, is made euen by death, who sweepes all (Beggar and Prince) with his impartiall Beesome, into one Bagge: and when Iudgement comes, they are made odde and vnequall againe; for then, the least in the worldes estimation, shall sit downe with the blessed Kinges and Patriarches in Heauen, when Kinges and Patriottes without grace, shalbe excluded. If you desire your names to be registred with the pen of Eternitie, write them your selues with the pen of Charitie: the Booke of Grace, is the counterpaine to the Booke of Election: they are written in Heauen first, and there God reades them: Wee cannot see into this Booke through the thicke cloudes of the Ayre and Sinne; let vs write them in the leaues of Obedience, and there read them: