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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.
Edom is but a particular instance of a general doom, which all the Sons of Adam, as the Daughters of E•e, I mean, all the Glories of this World shall bear; as sure as the Evening succeeds the Morning, Death shall seize on Life, Judgement on Sin: you have the sap of Health in your Bones, the Riches of the world in your Coffers, your Life is in the Noon of pride, but (we say) praise a fair day at Night. (Happy are they, whose life is hid with Christ in God, that this Night may not find them out:)1 your Sun shall set, Beauty, Riches, Glory, shall decay, as by the inviolable law of ⟨p. 20⟩Nature, night succeeds day; so by the eternal law of God, Death Sin. If you could indent with the Sun to stand still,2 as in the days of Joshua; or to go back ten degrees, as to Hezekiah; or with his Orb to move slowly, yet it shall set: Be the day never so long, yet at last, comes evening-song. The Son of God himself, in this condition of mortal descent, was equal to his Brethren. That great Sun of Righteousness, had his rising and his setting: We must all walk into the West, as well as he; and be our Day longer or shorter, Night must come, our Privileges are not beyond others.
Edom is but a particular instance of a generall doome, which all the Sonnes of Adam, as the Daughters of E•e, I meane, all the Glories of this World shall beare; as sure as the Euening succeedes the Morning, Death shall seaze on Life, Iudgement on Sinne: you haue the sappe of Health in your Bones, the Riches of the world in your Coffers, your Life is in the Noone of pride, but (we say) prayse a faire day at Night. (Happy are they, whose life is hid with Christ in God, that this Night may not finde them out:)1 your Sunne shall set, Beautie, Riches, Glory, shall decay, as by the inuiolable law of ⟨p. 20⟩Nature, night succeedes day; so by the eternall law of God, Death Sinne. If you could indent with the Sunne to stand still,