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,…

Constantius spake of old Rome, that Nature had emptied all her forces on that one City: the time came, she was overthrown, and her Walls made even with the ground. The titles of new Rome are greater, not her Privileges: (she is called, Urbs aeterna,) yet that Eternal Babylon shall fall, and her honour be laid in the Dust: her doom is past, and in the decree of Heaven, she is already fallen for the more sureness; and all her Merchants (petty Leases taken out of her grand Lease) shall mourn bitterly for her: she shall be made a Cage of unclean Birds, Owls and Vultures; as she is now a Den of unclean Beasts, Lyons and Tigers. If any City on earth might boast her Privileges, let Jerusalem speak; she was called the Holy City, and the City of God: the Temple in her, a figure of the Church militant; as Solomon the builder of it, was a type of Christ: Behold, her House is left unto her desolate: Sin laid her Pinnacles in the dust: At the murder of his Son, God with his own hands, rent the Veil, and after gave the whole Fabric a spoil to the Gentiles: They that have travailed the lower Provinces, testify, that the rude heaps of ruined Churches, Monasteries, and Religious places, are no less frequent then pitied spectacles: Devotion built them, kept them; Sin polluted them, Hostility subverted them: Sin prepared the way for Ruin and Blood: the Idolatry within overthrew the Walls without: they could plead more then Dumah, they and their pleas are perished.

Constantius spake of old Rome, that Nature had emptied all her forces on that one Citie: the time came, she was ouerthrowne, and her Walles made euen with the ground. The titles of new Rome are greater, not her Priuiledges: (shee is called, Vrbs aeterna,) yet that Eternall Babilon shall fall, and her honour be layde in the Dust: her doome is past, and in the decree of Heauen, she is already fallen for the more surenesse; and all her Marchants (petty Leases taken out of her graund Lease) shall mourne bitterly for her: shee shall be made a Cage of vncleane Birdes, Owles and Vultures; as she is now a Denne of vncleane Beas•es, Lyons and Tygers. If any Citie on earth might boast her Priuiledges, let Ierusalem speake; shee was called the Holy City, and the City of God: the Temple in her, a figure of the Church militant; as Salom•n the buylder of it, was a type of Christ: Beholde, her House is left vnto her desolate: Sinne layde her Pinacles in the dust: At the murder of his Sonne, God with his owne handes, rent the Vaile, and after gaue the whole Fabricke a spoyle to the Gentiles: They that haue trauayled the lower Prouinces, testifie, that the rude heapes of ruined Churches, Monasteries, and Religious places, are no lesse frequent then pittied spectacles: Deuotion built them, kept them; Sinne polluted them, Hostility subuerted them: Sinne prepared the way for Ruine and Blood: the Idolatry within ouerthrew the Walles without: they could plead more then Dumah, they and their pleas are perished.