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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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thousand and three hundred then shall the Sanctuarie be clensed and the vision of the Euening and the Morning is true The Euening of their sorrow precedes the Morning of their ioyes Our Prophet so compares the tempest of the Assirians rage to a Storme in the Night which vanisheth at the rysing Sunne Loe in the Euening there is trouble but before the Morning it is gone Our Night lastes during this wretched life the troubles of Miseries stormes of Persecutions and rage of that great Leutathan disturbes our Ayre darkens our Day and makes it a gloomy Night cloudes tempestes obstacles stumbling-blockes temptations machinations of Enemies deceiuinges of Friends through so many dangers and difficulties sayle we to our hauen of Peace our assuraunce is that ioy comes in the Morning when we shall rise in the East and beholde the Sonne of Glory shine in our faces The Morning of the Edomites Atheistes Reprobates comes first smiling on their browes but Nox sequitur they haue a Night behind 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 shal be 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 pâ—yde their Fire neuer quenched Here is their vnhappines Florent ad tempus pereunt in aeternum florent faâ—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 a puffe of Winde rayseth the Chaffe from the earth and a puffe scatters it away the Wicked are soone raised and with like speede depressed How quickly is Esau's posteritie aduanced to a Kingdome how immaturely cast downe The Crowne is scarse warme on their temples their eyes haue scarse taken a passing glaunce of their glories but all is dispersed the Godly are long kept vnder couert but when they doe rise their eleuation is permanent Loe now cast a sober and intelligent eye on this strange opposition and let the very enemie of Heauen and Grace iudge whether the vaine shadowes of Ioy and those for a Day liable to true and substantiall tormentes and those for euer be comparable with or desirable before a momentany Affliction and that not without the best of comfortes followed with an excellent and eternall weight of glory It 's confest I speake for you I thinke your Consciences are conuinced but Vbi signa Where are the signes of it If this be so and you so acknowledge it why lead you so dissonant liues shall the voyce of your owne tongues censure of your owne heartes witnesse against you Tacitus reportes that in the ciuill Warres betwixt Vitellius and Vespasian a Souldier had killed his owne Father which was of the enemies Armie no sooner was this published but euery man begins to abhorre condemne execrate that Warre the cause of such an vnnaturall fact yet how little effect this wrought in their proceedings that Author describes for their rage rapine crueltie was not lessened in spoyling Neighbour Friend Kinsman Brother Father when they had slaine them Wee abhorre the miseries and sinnes incident to this life we loue it still nay preferre it to Heauen our condemnation will be easie and iust what need is there of more Witnesses Ex ore tuo thy owne lippes haue spoken against thee For shame let our heartes and tongues be cut out of one peece that what we allow in opinion we may prosecute in practise You heare how the Day slippes from vs and the Night steales on what remaines but in the Day to prepare for the Night No maruell if men sleepe in the Night but in the broad day to shut our eyes with the Dormouse is vnnaturall There is a Night when thou shalt rest euen on thy bed of Peace onely walke worke loyter not in thy Day Christ taught and obserued the Rule himselfe to trauell his Day and all his Day For the Night comes wherein no man can worke There are thinges which if the Night findes vndone we are vndone because we haue not done them if we deferre to prouide lodging sustenaunce safetie the Night findes and leaues vs destitute How madde is hee that bound to some speciall designement confined to his day and then furthered with light ayde companie and conueniencie of all thinges spendes one houre in catching Flyes another after Feathers and all the rest in seuerall toyes and leasinges that on a sodaine the Sunne settes and his chiefe worke is not done nay not begunne The worke of our day is the working vp our saluation it is a speciall worke Heauen our Soules are vpon it and we haue but our day to worke it Tempus vitae tempus paenitentiae The time of life is the time of Repentance Wee spend one peece of our Day in Couetous scrapinges another in adoring that wee haue scraped some houres of our Day in working vanitie and some in sleeping security instantly the Night of death comes we haue neglected the maine chaunce our Saluation is not finished like Courtiers that hauing light to bring them to bed play it out at Cardes and goe to bed darkling Woe to them that goe to their last rest thus How vnworthy are wee of a Day thus to spend it It is pittie that euer the Sun of Grace shoone on our faces Quake and feare what soeuer thou art to suffer the sinne of thy soule and the end of thy life to come so neere togeather If men stumble in the darke it is not strange to fall at euery stubbe in the day argues wilfull neglect or want of eyes It is enough for those poore Romanistes that liue vnder that Egiptian darkenesse of the inquisition to fall into grieuous absurdities where the Sunne shines to see men fall in heapes is astonishing Oh that euery baite of drunkennesse obiect of couetousnesse presented glaunce of vanitie should make vs wander and stumble stumble and falle falle and content our selues therein without rysing What would wee what will wee doe if our Sunne settes For shame cast away the deedes of darknesse with the time Awake and stand vp the light of Iesus Christ shines on thy face As men from sleepe opening their eyes and seeing day broke cast away their cloathes wherein they were wrapt warme and starte vp to their seuerall callinges the Sinnes and Vanities of this world haue kept vs warme as Caiphas kept Peter whiles we
is hardned this is the sorest iudgement Let me speake a Paradoxe but a trueth it is the plague of manie that they are not plagued euen this is their punishment the want of punishment the hand of God is then heauiest when it is lightest heauiest on the Conscience when lightest on the Carcase it is true on them what the Philosopher sayd of himselfe Perieram misi perijssem they are vndone that they are not vndone God suffers their bodyes to possesse and be possessed of rest they sing to Viols daunce to Measures their Heades ake not Much lesse their Consciences But as to Israel fatte with Quailes God withall sendes Leaâ—nesse into their soules the present indulgence giues sufficient argument of future woes they surfet on pleasures till death puts them out of breath that worthy Father saw this their selfe-commended estate and prayed against it Lord heere plague cut massacre burne me so that for euer thou wilt spare and saue me This is Oâ—uâ— grauissimum the most grieuous Burden Securitie is the very suburbes of Hell Miseriâ—â— nihil est miserâ— se non miserante there is nothing more wretched then a wretched man that reckes not his owne miseriâ— an insensible Heart is the Deuils Anuile he fashioneth all sinnes on it and the blowes are not felt You wounder at the frequencie of Burdens and that the Turtles of this Land grone out of this place the sadde tunes of woe and miserie Alasse how should we sing the songes of Syon to a strange people The Pulpit I confesse should be the Mercie seate but your sinnes haue made it a Tribunall or Bench of Iudgement Nothing but the thunders of Sinaj and scarce those can waken vs from our dead sleepe this is Ima Sâ—curitas deepe Securitie fitly applyed to vs whose is Sine cura aetas an Age without care or rather if you will Se curans â—tas that loue none but our selues and that not enough to seeke our owne peace Let me speake it in the tune of Ieremie Non habet vlterius quod nostris moribus addat posteritas we flow with those sins to which no following posteritie shal be euer able to adde so spreading an infection of sinne is among vs that as in a great Plague we wonder not so much at them which die as at them whch scape so there is nothing a Wonder a Mirror a Miracle in Nature but he that liues vnspotted of this world If you thinke I speake too bitterly I would to God it were not worse then I speake I would your reformation might conuince our shame and giue vs cause to recant this in the Pulpitte this turnes the Message of Edome vpon vs the Burden of Dumah the Burden of England we cast from our shoulders the Burden of the Law God layes on vs the burden of Iudgement we load God with our sinnes and presse him as a Cart with Sheaues we packe vp a bundle of Lyes Blasphemies Adulteries Periuries Extortions Fraudes and then hasten to the Crosse of Christ to vnload them as if pressing our soules to Hell with wilfull sinnes yet Christ on the least warning must ease vs But the Promise is not to men laden with sinne but with sorrow for sinnes It is such a load as must make vs weary or we haue no promise to be eased But alasse sinne which is Burden enough to sinke the world is made light by custome as if resting in mans heart it did Quiessere in propriam sedem settle it selfe in the owne naturall place It is a philosophicall Axiome Nullum elementum suo loco pondurat no element is heauie in the proper place Though Sinne be as weightie as a Talent of Lead sayth the Prophet yet it is at the Center when got into the corrupted heart and weighes light and except the wrath of God fall vpon the naked Conscience Sinne lyes at the doore and Cain neuer cryes It is greater then I am able to beare Iudas had Burden enough of treason hypocrisie malice couetousnesse to sinke him downe it was no Burden till the finger of Gods wrath touched the tender heart-stringes and then it pressed him downe to his owne place How many haue in curuate and oppressed soules bowed downe with the spirit of infirmitie nay of ranke iniquitie more then 18. yeares that are not yet sensible of their owne crookednes nor the cause thereof for it can not be but the deâ—owred Patrimonies of many Orphans the ruines and depopulations of Townes the deuastation of Holy thinges should be Burdâ—ns too heauie for a poore crasie Soule to stand vnder Piles of Vâ—urie heauier then Aeâ—na Burdens of Bribes out ballancing the Axeltree are more then the Gyants Geonaxo Monsters of Men and Prodegies of Nature were able to beare We could not see a corrupted Lawyer Citizen Cormorant goe so nimbly and so bolt vpright vnder such a masse of sinne if they had not some helpe Heere it is the strong man Sathan so it pleaseth Christ to tearme him puts vnder his shoulder and makes the Vessell goe tight and easie with an equall Ballance which could not else swimme vpon the Waters without sinking Pride could not else carry a whole Towneship on his backe which his father Couetousnesse had but newly deuastate clambring vp to Honour as Ionathan to the Garrison of the Phiâ—istens by the raggednesse of these two Rockes Bozez and Seneh so these by the desolation of our two maine Rockes the Church and Common-wealth The vnmercifull Monopolies of Courtiers the vnreasonable Prices of Marchantes the hoordes if not transportation of Graine with Cormorantes the aduantages made of the poores necessities vnconscionable sinnes and Rentes wringing the last Penny from their Purses and drop of Blood from their Heartes Oh durum et importabile pondus an intollerable weight These wretches were neuer able to beare it without the ayde of the Deuill who whiles they draw with him in the same yoake is content to beare all the Burden At last when Presumption hath left the Stage and Desperation begins to knit vp all with a direfull catastrophe the Pulses beating slowly the Head akeing vehemently Body and Soule refusing all proffered comfort then the Deuill castes the whole Load on them that at once they may despaire and die then that which was lighter then Corke and Feathers becomes heauier then Lead Earth God hath often stroue with them by his Word they would neuer yeeld Avinces Thou shalt ouercome Oh Lord Now perhaps with Iulian too late they pant out 〈◊〉 Thou hast ouercome Our cryings in the day could not wake them that cry at midnight shall fetch them vp With the Burden of Enuie Couetousnesse Drunkennesse c. And as it was doomed to Babilon Looke how much her glory and pleasure hath been giue beâ— so much torment and sorrow Nay then the Deâ—ill gettes vp too like a mercilesse lay our with the addition of his owne weight to aggrauate their woes Striue then euerie one to abate the Burden