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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.
&c. Think not your Houses, Fortresses; when your Souls are unarmed of Christian weapons, Faith and Obedience: You had, and shall have peace, whiles you pursue it with righteous lives, whiles your guide all your actions by the line of the Sanctuary, and stir your Attempts by the compass of the Gospel: Plenty shall spread your Tables, whiles Charity takes away, and gives to the Poor. These holy courses, shall make you continue, in despite of Hell and Rome; your Mountain shall be hedged about with the Mercies of God, & your Children shall defy their Enemies in the Gates.
&c. Thinke not your Houses, Fortresses; when your Soules are vnarmed of Christian weapons, Fayth and Obedience: You had, and shall haue peace, whiles you pursue it with righteous liues, whiles your guide all your actions by the line of the Sanctuarie, and stirre your Attempts by the compasse of the Gospell: Plentie shall spread your Tables, whiles Charitie takes away, and giues to the Poore. These holy courses, shall make you continue, in despight of Hell and Rome; your Mountaine shalbe hedged about with the Mercies of God, & your Children shall defie their Enemies in the Gates.
The Person must not be omitted, to whom this scoffing Question is moved; The Watch-man. It seems the Prophet had denounced against Edom, 1War; they deride his message, as a leafing, and his person under the name of a Watch-man: nay, therefore they ⟨p. 12⟩scorn him, because a Watch-man. I will not insist on the duties of Watch-men: every common Soldier can school the Watch-man: Many presume to teach us our duties, that will be ranged within no order themselves: that which a Watch-man is to the City, or Sentinel to the Leaguer; a Minister is to the People: to Watch over your selves, is every particular mans duty; to watch over all, (Opus Ministrj) is the work of the Ministry: If our Eyes be blind in descrying Dangers, our Tongues dumb to give Warning, the City or Fort is easily taken:2