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,…

Hear this ye Edomites, that flout our presagings of a Night: you speak of a Night, and hour of Judgement; When comes it? We tell you again, The Morning cometh, and also the Night. You have had a time of Light and delight, and what your hearts could wish; you shall have a time of Sorrow and Darkness: Your Noon shall be turned to Midnight. Tender and delicate Babylon, ¹that boasted her self a Queen, and free from mourning, shall weep in the widow-hood of her glory; and hear at last, (Aduenit sinis tuus,) thy end is come.² You that will not set your minds to these things, nor remember the latter end, miseries shall come on you in their perfection: so absolute as the Justice of God, & the Malice of Satan can make them. So Solomon schools the art-less, heart-less, supine courses of vain Youth: Rejoice, O Young man, &c. ³Rejoice in your day of Pride, let Pleasure rock you on her indulgent knee, you shall be brought to the night of Judgement: The Surfeits of the old World, the Mirth of the Philistines, (when Sampson was their laughing stock) the carowsinges of that Chaldean Monarch in the sacred Bowls of Jerusalem, had their Night: Solomon with his 1000. Wives and Concubines, Belshazzar with his 1000. Princes, Ahashiverosh with his 127. Provinces, had their Night: High-looked ⟨image 23⟩Honour, and pursy Riches; the one diseased in his Eyes, the other in his Lunges, shall have their Night: The favour of Noble men, is the favour of moveable men;⁴ the Ignis fatuus of Riches is long engendering, soon extinct: let Joab and Job, be our precedents in both these: the first, was great and evil, the chiefest Captain about David; yet by David designed to execution; The second was great and good; yet behold, the mightiest man of the East,⁵ is poor to a Proverb: What ever flourished and had not this night? The rich Churl enlarging his Barnes proportionably to his desires,⁶