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,…

1. The Happiness of Edom is but a Day; The Morning comes, and the Night follows: It is but the distance of the Sun-rising from his setting. There is to all things living, such an alternation decreed; a morn, a noon, a night: a beginning, a strong age, a declination or full point: as the Historians write of certain Flies bred by the River Hispanis, that are generated in the morning, at noon in full strength, at night make ⟨p. 19⟩their ends, and are gone: Paul says, Our life is but a Tabernacle, it is all, if this stands a year: Isaiah calls it, Grass; which grows but a Summer: David, a Flower; that hath but his month: here it is called, a Day; that hath but the Sun-rising and setting: Nay, Job compares it to a Shadow; that hath (neither Year, nor Summer, nor Month, nor Day,) but an Hour: Nay, Moses to a Thought; whereof there may be a hundred in an hour: This is none of the shortest Comparisons, (Manè et vespèrè) the measure of one day.

1. The Happinesse of Edom is but a Day; The Morning comes, and the Night followes: It is but the distaunce of the Sun-rising from his setting. There is to all thinges liuing, such an alternation decreed; a morne, a noone, a night: a beginning, a stronge age, a declination or full poynt: as the Historians write of certaine Flyes bred by the Riuer Hispanis, that are generated in the morning, at noone in full strength, at night make ⟨p. 19⟩their endes, and are gone: Paul sayes, Our life is but a Tabernacle, it is all, if this standes a yeare: Esay calles it, Grasse; which growes but a Summer: Dauid, a Flower; that hath but his moneth: heere it is called, a Day; that hath but the Sun-rising and setting: Nay, Iob compares it to a Shadow; that hath (neither Yeare, nor Summer, nor Moneth, nor Day,) but an Hower: Nay, Moses to a Thought; whereof there may be a hundred in an hower: This is none of the shortest Comparisons, (Manè et vespèrè) the measure of one day.

What then mean those Greedy Dogs in this Prophecy,¹