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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.
*It was the foolish pride of that Roman Emperor, having made a Bridge of grappled Ships over a narrow Arm of the Sea, and triumphing at midnight with innumerable torches, to boast that he had (wrought two Miracles,) made the Sea dry Land, and the Night Day: but our Emperor of Heaven and Earth, did perform it indeed, when he dried up the Read sea of his Fathers ⟨image 24⟩wrath, and changed our present Night of Ignorance, and future of torment, into the eternal daylight of his Grace and Glory.
*It was the foolish pride of that Romane Emperour, hauing made a Bridge of grappled Ships ouer a narrow Arme of the Sea, and triumphing at midnight with innumerable torches, to boast that he had (wrough two Miracles,) made the Sea dry Land, and the Night Day: but our Emperour of Heauen and Earth, did performe it indeed, when he dryed vp the Redde sea of his Fathers ⟨image 24⟩wrath, and changed our present Night of Ignonaunce, and future of torment, into the eternall daylight of his Grace and Glory.
- *Caligula (in im talon of Zerxes, that passed his Army over the streight of Hellespont upon a wooden bridge) upon ships moared together with Cables & Anchors, made a bridge of boards, with so much earth on it, that it seemed firm ground, like one of the streets in Rome. Dion.Caligula (in im ta•on of Zerxes, that passed his Armie ouer the streight of Hellespont vpō a wooden bridge) vpon ships moared together with Cables & Anchors, made a bridge of boords, with so much earth on it, that it seemed firme ground, like one of the streetes in Rome. Dion.
4 The last part to this Survey, is the inverting of this upon the Righteous: Where, behold the different beginnings and ends of both Holy, and Unholy: to the children of Disobedience, the Morning is before the Evening; and this is Dumah's woe at Sun-set (Fuisse faelicem) that she had her Day: To the Faithful, the Evening is before the Morning; as at the Creation, The Evening and the Morning were the first day.