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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.
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 Now, (Quam clamoris vocem daturus est praeco mutus?) What warning shall a dumb Watch-man give? Some will not speak, the Fountain of their knowledge is shut up, like Labans Well, with a great Stone of security, saturity, stateliness: others will speak too much, making the Pulpit a Pasquil, to ease their spleens, to traduce superiors: (Medio tutissimus ibis) The mean and honest way, is the safest.
The Person must not be omitted, to whom this scoffing Question is mooued; The Watch-man. It seemes the Prophet had denounced against Edom, 1Warre; they deride his message, as a leafing, and his person vnder the name of a Watch-man: nay, therefore they ⟨p. 12⟩scorne him, because a Watch-man. I will not insist on the duties of Waich-men: euery common Souldier can schoole the Watch-man: Many presume to teach vs our duties, that will be ranged within no order themselues: that which a Watch-man is to the Citie, or Centinell to the Leagure; a Minister is to the People: to Watch ouer your selues, is euery particular mans dutie; to watch ouer all, (Opus Ministrj) is the worke of the Ministry: If our Eyes be blinde in descrying Dangers, our Tongues dumbe to giue Warning, the Citie or Fort is easily taken: