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,…

If you ask me, 1. Where you should Enquire? Our Prophet directs you; To the Law, to the Testimony: Where should a people enquire,¹ but at their God? 2. If how? With Humility, Reverence, and desire of Knowledge: (Inter Ivvenile tuaicium, et senile praeiudicium multa veritas corrumpitur.) There must be in us an equal avoiding of both Rashness, and Prejudice: Young men apprehend not the necessity of Knowledge; Old men presume of a plerophory and abundance: hence neither young nor old enquire. 3. If when? The Wise-man answers; Enquire, seek; Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth: Begin this search, in the Morning of thy years: (Mane, is the Lords Adverb, the Devils ⟨image 27⟩Verb:) the Lord saith, Early; the Devil saith, Tarry: to whom you hearken, judge your selves: One thing only, take heed you stay not too long; the Devil is a false Sexton, and sets the Clock too slow, that the Night comes ere we be aware: tarry not then till your piles of Usuries, heaps of Deceits, mountains of Blasphemies, have caused God to hide himself, and will not be found. There is a (Sera nimis hora) time too late, which Esau fell unluckily into, when he sought the Blessing with tears, and could not find it. It may be the Statues,² or the Guides, or thy own Eyes, may be denied thee, & then too late thou Enquirest. Whiles the Book of God is not perused, his Temples not frequented, nor his Throne solicited by Prayers, hard heartednesse steals on us, and like Sampson bound by the Philistines, we would break their Bonds, and cast their Cords from us; but our Delilah, our Folly hath beguiled us.

If you aske mee, 1. Where you should Enquire? Our Prophet directes you; To the Law, to the Testimonie: Where should a people enquire,¹ but at their God? 2. If how? With Humilitie, Reuerence, and desire of Knowledge: (Inter Iuuenile tuaicium, et senile praeiudicium multa veritas corrumpitur.) There must be in vs an equall auoyding of both Rashnes, and Preiudice: Young men apprehend not the necessitie of Knowledge; Old men presume of a plerophorie and abundance: hence neither young nor old enquire. 3. If when? The Wise-man answers; Enquire, seeke; Remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth: Begin this search, in the Morning of thy yeares: (Mane, is the Lordes Aduerbe, the Deuils