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,…

We have gone the better half of our Journey,¹ let not your attentions fail to the end: We have seen the nature of Edom, and Mount Seir, Atheism, Scorn, Abomination; we are now entering an other Mountain, the Hill of Zion, the City of God. The Question of the Edomite was not more perverse, then the Answer of the Watch-man is grave and sober. The Answers of God are not doubtful, like the Heathen Oracles; nor obscure and tetricall, as Mahomets Riddles; nor ambiguous, like the mixed, the motley, epicene, equivocating conclusions of Rome, but plain, sweet, profitable: I call therefore the first part of it,² A Resolution: They ask as if they despised to know; he resolves them justly, as if he would force them to know against their wills. They ask him what is spiritually seen in the night of Vision? He tells them, what shall really come in the night of actual Desolation: The Morning cometh, and also the Night, Let your understandings keep pace with me through these 4. Circumstances. 1. The length of their Peace;³ one whole day, the space betwixt morning and evening: a short time. 2. The Certainty of their Judgement; The night (infallibly) cometh. 3. The quality of it, when it is come; (Nox dicitur) it is called, a Night. 4. The Inversion of this, to the Righteous.

We haue gone the better halfe of our Iourney,¹ let not your attentions fayle to the end: Wee haue seene the nature of Edom, and Mount Seir, Atheisme, Scorne, Abhomination; wee are now entring an other Mountaine, the Hill of Syon, the Citie of God. The Question of the Edomite was not more peruerse, then the Answere of the Watch-man is graue and sober. The Answers of God are not doubtfull, like the Heathen Oracles; nor obscure and tetricall, as Mahomets Riddles; nor ambiguous, like the mixt, the motley, epicaene, equiuocating conclusions of Rome, but plaine, sweete, profitable: I call therefore the first part of it,² A Resolution: They aske as if they despised to know; hee resolues them iustly, as if he would force them to know against their willes. They aske him what is spiritually seene in the night of Vision? He tels them, what shall really come in the night of actuall Desolation: The Morning commeth, and also the Night, Let your vnderstandinges keepe pace with me through these 4. Circumstances. 1. The length of their Peace;