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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.
Oh how (yet) was it some happiness, if in a day or set time, these woes could be determined: these are the Epicures, not so impudent as to deny the night, not so honest as to part with their sins.
Oh how (yet) was it some happines, if in a day or set time, these woes could be determined: these are the Epicures, not so impudent as to deny the night, not so honest as to part with their sinnes.
3 Libertines, that neither affirm no Night, nor put it far off; but only the strength of sin prevails over all: and come Sorrow, Death, Grave, Hell, they must have their pleasures:1 they have a pride in accomplishing their own wills, as she in the Poet; I see the good, and give allowance to it: The evil is my choice, I love and do it. They can not be noted for Virtuous; but they will be Famous, though for Infamy: as that wicked Church-robber, that to do some memorable act, pulled all the Lead off the Churches roof, and thatched it: they must be mentioned, though like a Traitors name in the Chronicles. These swear away all reproofs, & drink away all the chidings of their own Conscience: it shall be the worse for them, that ever they had a conscience: their Hell shall be the hotter for the multitude of their neglected motions to good: their Mercies have not bin more numerous, then shall be their Miseries: their Nurture or Learning (to omit those, that never read any other Book then Vanity) at once makes them better and worse; better in understanding, worse in ⟨image 20⟩manners; whiles their contemplation is a Theatre, and their study, new sports, new fashions: Oh how far better is the simple, honest, innocent Soul without knowledge, then that which is beautified with learning and debauched with vices?
3 Libertines, that neither affirme no Night, nor put it farre off; but onely the strength of sinne preuailes ouer all: and come Sorrow, Death, Graue, Hell, they must haue their pleasures: