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The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March, being the fift Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...
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Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.
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Prouerbe Pater noster set vp Churches Our Father pulles them downe I will not fauour with a partiall conuiuence these Scorners though they nussell themselues in the Churches bosome nay I will speake most plainely these are the worst Edomites if not to them selues to vs. Let the Atheist deny the Epicure remoue the Libertine forget that there is any other Day of peace or sorrow besides or beyond the present what is this to beleeuers Wee are reedy to brand and howte at them as they did to the Lepers in Israel nay to raine them to death with a showre of Stones as they serued Idolaters and Blasphemers But be our owne handes vndefiled that take vp these weapons of Death against others as Christ charged the Iewes that charged the adulterous Woman If we be sicke our sicknesse is more dangerous then theirs The other Diseases are without the body but this comes neereâ— the heart of the Church we know what it is to haue a Sicknesse come neere the heart there is more griefe to the Mother of the Familie in the miscarying of one of the Children then of many Strangers Edomites vnbeleeuers or misbeleeuers these haue learned to speake the language to scorne the manners of Canaan for their liues testifie that they beleeue not our report We haue gone the better halfe of our Iourney let not your attentions fayle to the end Wee haue seene the nature of Edom and Mount Seir Atheisme Scorne Abhomination wee are now entring an other Mountaine the Hill of Syon the Citie of God The Question of the Edomite was not more peruerse then the Answere of the Watch-man is graue and sober The Answers of God are not doubtfull like the Heathen Oracles nor obscure and tetricall as Mahomets Riddles nor ambiguous like the mixt the motley epicaene equiuocating conclusions of Rome but plaine sweete profitable I call therefore the first part of it A Resolution They aske as if they despised to know hee resolues them iustly as if he would force them to know against their willes They aske him what is spiritually seene in the night of Vision He tels them what shall really come in the night of actuall Desolation The Morning commeth and also the Night Let your vnderstandinges keepe pace with me through these 4. Circumstances 1. The length of their Peace one whole day the space betwixt morning and euening a short time 2. The Certaintie of their Iudgement The night infallibly commeth 3. The qualitie of it when it is come Nox dicitur it is called a Night 4. The Inuersion of this to the Righteous 1. The Happinesse of Edom is but a Day The Morning comes and the Night followes It is but the distaunce of the Sun-rising from his setting There is to all thinges liuing such an alternation decreed a morne a noone a night a beginning a stronge age a declination or full poynt as the Historians write of certaine Flyes bred by the Riuer Hispanis that are generated in the morning at noone in full strength at night make their endes and are gone Paul sayes Our life is but a Tabernacle it is all if this standes a yeare Esay calles it Grasse which growes but a Summer Dauid a Flower that hath but his moneth heere it is called a Day that hath but the Sun-rising and setting Nay Iob compares it to a Shadow that hath neither Yeare nor Summer nor Moneth nor Day but an Hower Nay Moses to a Thought whereof there may be a hundred in an hower This is none of the shortest Comparisons Manè et vespèrè the measure of one day What then meane those Greedy Dogges in this Prophecie to barke so madly Bring more Wine for to morrow shall be as to day yea much more abundant Mee thinkes I heare the gallant Epicures the christned Atheistes of this Citie knocke thus in Tauerns for yet more Wine crowning the day with Riots and blessing the morrow with promised Surfets as if the Night should neuer come alas Nescis quid serus vesper ferat thou knowest not what sadde newes the Euening will bring thou braggest with Cesar the Day is come Wee tell thee as Cesars friend It is come indeed and begun it is not ended the Lease of Vanitie is but a Day it may be not a moment the tenure of this world is vncertaine Medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid From out of the midst of the fount of Delicacies ariseth euer some Bitternesse when you haue spent your strengthes your estates bloodes soules vpon Vanitie all is but Vnius diej hilaris insanta the merry madnesse of a day which to buy with the eternitie of insufferable Torments is a deare purchase If they be not short of content and satisfaction I am sure they are of continuance They do not alwaies follow a man lyuing euer forsake him when he dyes 2 You haue measured the shortnesse of their day heare the certainetie of their night The morning comes and without preuention night followes You shall shake off the yoake of Israell but put on you the yoake of Persia The Edomites were long tributaries to Israell according to Ishae's prophecie and blessing of Esau. Thou shalt be thy Brothers Seruant but it shall come to passe when thou shalt get the masterie thou shalt breake his yoake from thy necke The Prophet heere assures them of this masterie Israell rebells against God therefore Edome against Israell Ishae as Gods Prophet subiects Edom to Canaan the seede of Esau to the seede of Iacob Intemperanti praefecit sobrium he sets the sober man ouer the intemperate and this seruice of the elder Brother to the younger lasted in the posterity 700 yeares Yet twice after they shooke off this seruitude the first in Iorams time which libertie they made a troublesome shift to hold till Hircanus who subdued them and made them be circumcised this slauery they ouercame againe and held it euen till Herod the sonne of Antipater an Idumaean borne obtayned to be King of the Iewes heere Edom got the full mastrie The first was this Morning the Prophet speakes of this Morning of freedome shall come but last for a Day and then be ouerclouded with a Night a worse Captiuitie because to a worse people Qui Deum et misericordiâ—m nesciunt that know neither God nor Mercie as those priuations are inseperable there is no Mercie where no Religion Edom is but a particular instance of a generall doome which all the Sonnes of Adam as the Daughters of Eâ—e I meane all the Glories of this World shall beare as sure as the Euening succeedes the Morning Death shall seaze on Life Iudgement on Sinne you haue the sappe of Health in your Bones the Riches of the world in your Coffers your Life is in the Noone of pride but we say prayse a faire day at Night Happy are they whose life is hid with Christ in God that this Night may not finde them out your
the name he intendes to take blessings from the person when Ieconiah's curse is written in the cutting off his Posteritie from the throne of Dauid and himselfe from the prosperitie of the earth he is called Coâ—â—â—h the reason is added He is a despised person let him haue a shortned name a broken Idoll and an vnpleasant Vessell c. Thus God crosseth the worlds fashion by putting them in his Chronicle which are not heere thought of and leauing those out which the world boastes of as her glorie to a soule that hath more Affection in her then Religion it seemes a great matter of pitty that Plato Cato Alexander some of those mighty Romane Cesars honored with the graces of Nature the bounties of Fortune the greatest glory the fore'd world could yeeld them should yet want a name in Gods Booke a place in his Kingdome Greatnes is the fairest obiect to the eye of the world Goodnes to the eye of Heauen There is a glorious splendour in pompous Honour to draw the eyes of admiration after it it litle affectes the sight of God if Vertue giues it not a Lustre hee that is goodnesse and greatnesse it selfe when others haue it in the concrete good and great he hath and deserues it in the abstract is pleased to preferre his title of Optimus before that of Maximus and first to be called Good and then Great His affections should be ours he is the absolute precedent of our imitation There are infinite wayes that conduct to seeming Honour excluding Vertue the end of them al is shame since of a naturall man it is true that Quanâ—ò ornatior tantò nequâ—or The more adorned the more wicked our Bonnets vaile our Knees bow to many whom the sight of Heauen and Vertue scornes This imparitie of men lyuing is made euen by death who sweepes all Beggar and Prince with his impartiall Beesome into one Bagge and when Iudgement comes they are made odde and vnequall againe for then the least in the worldes estimation shall sit downe with the blessed Kinges and Patriarches in Heauen when Kinges and Patriottes without grace shal be excluded If you desire your names to be registred with the pen of Eternitie write them your selues with the pen of Charitie the Booke of Grace is the counterpaine to the Booke of Election they are written in Heauen first and there God reades them Wee cannot see into this Booke through the thicke cloudes of the Ayre and Sinne let vs write them in the leaues of Obedience and there read them they stand sure with God before not sure to vs till now Write them in the entrals of the Poore in the ruines of the Church by you bettered repayred maintayned Non norunt haec monumenta morâ— and you shall one day heare the Iudge himselfe read them in the audience of all the world to your ioy crowne eternitie of blisse Christ diuerted his Apostles triumph to an other honour they were litle lesse then proud that the Deuils were subdued vnto them through his name whom they serued True sayth Christ I saw Sathan fall from heauen like lightning neuerthelesse reioyce not that the spirits obey you but reioyce that your names are written in Heauen Reioyce not of your innobled bloodes admired with liuing praises rescued from the iawes of obliuion by sumptuous Sepulchers there is small matter of ioy that the name liues in bright honour on Earth when the Soule lyes in the rusting miseries of Hell but reioyce on your assurance of memoriall with God The memorie of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rotte A great name commonly ariseth either from Blood popular applause or Golden trappinges the last vseth a man like a Counter that standes now for a Million instantly for a Penny The first findes Honour perhaps deserues it not leaues it by succession The middlemost is vnconstant as the causes are the vulgar opinions whose distracted voyces seldome hit on the same tune or neuer keepe it long The Monarches of the world haue large and tedious Titles according to their seuerall Dominions good lucke haue they with that Honour which the hand of God reacheth foorth vnto them there is a Title that betters all theirs those are foulded vp in time that perisheth this bringes Honour without end or limits to be a Christian such haue their names producted in Gods booke to shew that they stand written with Golden letters in the Lambes booke of Heauen Abram shal be called Abraham Iacob Israell The Hebrewes well obserue that God to those he loued added a letter of his owne name that tetragrammaton Iehouah as the letter He to Abrahams and Sarahs name the letter Iod to Iehoshua's who was before called Hoshea It was happy for Mordecaj that his name stood in the Persian Chronicles that Ahashverosh might read him his seruice shal be found out with rewardes array him with the Kinges Robe set him on the Kinges Chariot and proclaime his name through the popular streetes This is the man whom the King will honour It is more blessed to stand in the Chronicles of Heauen registred by the Penne of that eternall Spirit wee shall one sit with the King in his Throne Vnicenti dabitur sedere c. and put on his robe of Glorie Be fashioned like his glorious body Such honour haue all his Saintes It is the decree and promise of him whose word is more stable then the foundations of the Earth Those that honâ—â—r me I will honour Reuolue then his sacred Name in your sanctified mouthes sing Hosaâ—na's to it heere that you may â—ing Halleâ—uia's hereafter hauing drunke heartie draughts of his Waters of Mercie blesse with Dauid his great and glorious Name the honour of your owne names is attayned nay consistes in this maintaine the glory of it with your strengthes sound it with your prayses and if need be seale it with your bloodes and God shall write your Names not shortned like Dumahs but at full length in a Booke neuer to be blotted out The nature of the Prophecie followes being that other branch of the Inscription A Burden a matter not easily portable but will weigh heauie on whom soeuer imposed the Burden is in 2. respectes 1. of the Prophet that beare it 2. of the People that were to suffer it 1. The Word of the Lord is to the Prophets a heauy Burden till they are deliuered of it there is no rest in the bones to the surcharged Conscience no more then to the pregnant Woman till she be eased I confesse that Securitie Vanitie abundance of Wealth setting their shoulders to this Burden make many a Prophet forgoe all sense of the weight Ionas loden with his Commission for Niniueh lay as securely in the sides of the Shippe as if the God of Israel had layd no Burden on him but himselfe was a Burden to the Shippe and the furie of