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,…

But what say we to Usurpers, Wolves, Tyrants, that call themselves Watch-men? that (Bi-nominis, bi-linguis) Double-named, double-tongued, double-sworded; and not single hearted. Demi-god of Rome, calls himself sometimes a Watch-man, sometimes a King: the Servant of servants, the King of Kings: as if there was no difference betwixt the serviceable Watch-man, and the commanding Prince; betwixt the Sentinel of the Leaguer, and the General of the Armie, (Ad duo qui tendit, non unum, nec duo prendit) Whiles he claims both, usurps one, trueth allows him neither: His actions show him no Seruant, (F•riendo non ferendo agit,) He gives blows, but takes none. To be such a Watch-man as he desires, possibility is denied him, since his eyes can not look so far, as he would extend his arm; not to watch over Rome only, but so far as the world is Christened: Behold, saith he, I have two Swords; ⟨image 15⟩one of them he lets rust, I mean, the sword of the Spirit: the other, he keeps bright with the blood of Saints, and makes it shine with the Gall of Martyrs: (Principa•is principatus a triplici corona) the principal principality is from the triple Crown: As the Sun exceeds the Earth, so the Pope all Christian Princes; other Kings are but his Bailiffs. Did you ever hear a Watch-man speak thus? or arrogate to himself such a reign (In foro pol•, in foro pluij, in foro conscient•ae) In the court of Heaven, in the court of Hell, and in the court of every Conscience? If any resist his tyranny, he snatcheth from Christ that his Word,¹ and usurps it: Bring those mine enemies, that would not have me reign over them, and slay them before me: If he can not behold it in action, he will see it in picture, as the massacre of Paris on S. Bartholomew's night, was pictured in the Popes Palace, to entertain his holy eye with pleasure: so would the Powder-treason have been, if the matter had hit right: as horrid, as the thought of it is to an honest mind, the hoisting up of Buildings, shivering of Bodies, tearing up of Monuments, dissipation, massacre, murder of old, young, Prince people, Senators and Senate, drawn to the life by the art of a Painter, would have been a contenting spectacle, for so holy an eye to contemplate: sure there is honesty in Hell, if this be Religion: if the Devil can devise more execrable stratagems, let him change Seats with the Pope.