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,…

This disparity consists not only in the counterposition of their order, but in the circumstantial difference of their length and shortness: Our Night is irksome, but short; (Compensatur acerbitas brevitate) What is ill in the bitterness, is eased by the shortness: But our Day is everlasting, from new Moon to new Moon, from Sabbath to Sabbath, we shall praise the Lord: Myriads of years and ages, shall be expired, and our Sun as far from setting, as at our first entrance; for time and mortality, and distinction of age, shall cease: there is nothing but eternity above: It is not more blessed in being a Day, then in being endless: Their Morning is short, their Night everlasting, their Debt never p•yde, their Fire never quenched: Here is their unhappines, (Florent ad tempus, pereunt in aeternum: florent fa•sis bonis, pereunt veris tormentis:) They flourish for a time, they perish for ever: they flourish with false joys, perish with true and substantial torments: things that are soonest bred, have the shortest continuance:¹ a puff of Wind raiseth the Chaff from the earth, and a puff scatters it away: the Wicked are soon raised, and with like speed depressed: How quickly is Esau's posterity advanced to a Kingdom, how immaturely cast down? The Crown is scarce warm on their temples, their eyes have scarce taken a passing glance of their glories, but all is dispersed: the Godly are long kept under covert; but when they do rise, their elevation is permanent.

This disparitie consistes not onely in the counterposition of their order, but in the circumstantiall difference of their length and shortnesse: Our Night is irkesome, but short; (Compensatur acerbitas breuitate) What is ill in the bitternesse, is eased by the shortnesse: But our Day is euerlasting, from new Moone to new Moone, from Saboth to Saboth, wee shall prayse the Lord: Myriades of yeares and ages, shalbe expired, and our Sunne as farre from setting, as at our first entrance; for time and mortalitie, and distinction of age, shall cease: there is nothing but eternitie aboue: It is not more blessed in being a Day, then in being endlesse: Their Morning is short, their Night euerlasting, their Debt never p•yde, their Fire neuer quenched: Here is their vnhappines, (Florent ad tempus, pereunt in aeternum: florent fa•sis bonis, pereunt veris tormentis:) They flourish for a time, they perish for euer: they flourish with false ioyes, perish with true and substantiall tormentes: thinges that are soonest bred, haue the shortest continuance: