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,…

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. ¹The Jews were commanded to begin their Feast of Reconciliation at Even;² and, From Evening to Evening, shall you celebrate your Sabbath. It was Christs comfortable Answer to his Church, intending the date when the profanation of the Temple should cease, to set the Morning of their peace, after the Evening of their troubles, by a sweet and mystical allusion: Unto the Evening, and the Morning, ³two thousand, and three hundred: then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed: and the vision of the Evening and the Morning is true: ⁴The Evening of their sorrow precedes the Morning of their joys. Our Prophet so compares the tempest of the Assyrians rage, to a Storm in the Night, which vanisheth at the rising Sun: Lo,⁵ in the Evening there is trouble, but before the Morning it is gone. Our Night lasts during this wretched life: the troubles of Miseries, storms of Persecutions, and rage of that great Leviathan, disturbs our Air,⁶ darkens our Day, and makes it a gloomy Night; clouds, tempests, obstacles, stumbling-blocks, temptations, machinations of Enemies, deceivinges of Friends, through so many dangers and difficulties sail we to our haven of Peace: our assurance is, that joy comes in the Morning, when we shall rise in the East, and behold the Son of Glory shine in our faces. ⟨p. 22⟩The Morning of the Edomites, Atheists, Reprobates, comes first smiling on their brows; but (Nox sequitur) they have a Night behind.