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,…

3 That it shall come, you hear; hear shortly the quality of it, when it is come: A Night. Misery is not fitlyer shadowed, then under the name of a Night: Sorrow lasts for a Night, says the Psalmist, but joy comes in the Morning. A sad, heavy, and disconsolate time, full of horror and amazement; when there is no object to withdraw the eye, thereby to divert the mind from the thought and meditation of bitterness. Satan himself is not said to be bound with any other Chains but these of Darkness: as the Joys of Heaven are described by that eternal daylight of glory and Sunshine of the Lamb,¹ and it is added in express words; There shall be no Night there: So the torments of Hell are called by Christ,² [Greek or Hebrew], Utter Darkness: No marvel, if there ensue, weeping and gnashing of teeth, when misery shall be extreme, and no day-hole of hope, to afford one glimpse of comfort: this is that Night of nights, ³worse then the palpable Darkness of Egypt, as full of intolerable horror, as Caliginous blackness: I find not only the time of Judgement general, but of temporal and particular calamities, termed by the Night of horror: the downfall of Dumah, a Night: the destruction of Israel, A season of blackness, darkness, clouds and obscurities. Therefore (as Christ to the Jews, Pray that your flight be not in the Night,) pray that your departure out of this life, be not in the Night of your security and ignorance; and then fear not this Night, for you are redeemed from the land of eternal Darkness.

3 That it shall come, you heare; heare shortly the qualitie of it, when it is come: A Night. Miserie is not fitlyer shadowed, then vnder the name of a Night: Sorrow lastes for a Night, sayes the Psalmist, but ioy comes in the Morning. A sadde, heauie, and disconsolate time, full of horrour and amazement; when there is no obiect to withdraw the eye, thereby to diuert the minde from the thought and meditation of bitternesse. Sathan himselfe is not sayd to be bound with any other Chaines but these of Darknesse: as the Ioyes of Heauen are described by that eternall daylight of glory and Sunshine of the Lambe,¹ and it is added in expresse wordes; There shall be no Night there: So the tormentes of Hell are called by Christ,