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,…

Christ diverted his Apostles triumph to an other honour: they were little less then proud,¹ that the Devils were subdued unto them through his name whom they served: True (saith Christ) I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning; nevertheless rejoice not that the spirits obey you, but rejoice that your names are written in Heaven. ²Rejoice not of your ennobled bloods, admired with living ⟨p. 3⟩praises, & rescued from the jaws of oblivion by sumptuous Sepulchres: there is small matter of joy, that the name lives in bright honour on Earth, when the Soul lies in the rusting miseries of Hell: but rejoice on your assurance of memorial with God:³ The memory of the just shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot. A great name commonly ariseth either from Blood,⁴ popular applause,⁵ or Golden trappings:⁶ the last useth a man like a Counter that stands now for a Million, instantly for a Penny: The first finds Honour, perhaps deserves it not, leaves it by succession: The middlemost is unconstant, as the causes are: the vulgar opinions, whose distracted voices seldom hit on the same tune, or never keep it long. The Monarchs of the world have large and tedious Titles, according to their several Dominions: good luck have they with that Honour, which the hand of God reacheth forth unto them: there is a Title that betters all theirs; those are folded up in time, that perisheth: this brings Honour without end or limits, to be a Christian; such have their names producted in Gods book, to show that they stand written with Golden letters in the Lambs book of Heaven: Abram shall be called Abraham: Jacob, Israel. The Hebrews well observe, that God to those he loved, added a letter of his own name (that tetragrammaton) Jehovah: as the letter He, to Abraham's and Sarahs name the letter Jod to Jehoshua's, who was before called Hoshea.