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,…

2 You have measured the shortness of their day, hear the certainty of their night: The morning comes, and (without prevention) night follows. You shall shake ⟨image 22⟩off the yoke of Israel, but put on you the yoke of Persia: The Edomites were long tributaries to Israel, according to Isaac's prophecy and blessing of Esau. Thou shalt be thy Brothers Servant;¹ but it shall come to pass, when thou shalt get the mastery, thou shalt break his yoke from thy neck: The Prophet here assures them of this mastery. (Israel rebels against God, therefore Edom against Israel.) Isaac as Gods Prophet, subjects Edom to Canaan, the seed of Esau to the seed of Jacob:² (Intemperanti praefecit sobrium) he sets the sober man over the intemperate: and this service of the elder Brother to the younger, lasted in the posterity 700 years. Yet twice after, they shook off this servitude: the first in Joram's time, which liberty they made a troublesome shift to hold till Hircanus, ³who subdued them, and made them be circumcised: this slavery they overcame again, and held it, even till Herod, ⁴the son of Antipater, an Idumaean borne, obtained to be King of the Jews: here Edom got the full mastery. The first, was this Morning the Prophet speaks of; this Morning of freedom shall come, but last for a Day, and then be overclouded with a Night, a worse Captivity, because to a worse people, (Qui Deum et misericordi•m nesciunt) that know neither God, nor Mercy: as those privations are inseparable, there is no Mercy, where no Religion.

2 You haue measured the shortnesse of their day, heare the certainetie of their night: The morning comes, and (without preuention) night followes. You shall shake ⟨image 22⟩off the yoake of Israell, but put on you the yoake of Persia: The Edomites were long tributaries to Israell, according to Ishae's prophecie and blessing of Esau. Thou shalt be thy Brothers Seruant;