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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01573	The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March, being the fift Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1612 (1612)	STC 117; ESTC S100383	48,604	74

were folded in them but our maine worke lay dead for want of execution Prouide then for this Night ôh thou whose cheeke the Sunne of mercie and forbearance kisseth The sleepe of him that trauaileth is sweete whether he eate little or much but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe If the Day be well spent the wearied bones reioyce in their earned repose and the contented Conscience applaudes it selfe in the thought of her carefull obedience body and soule receiues rest Whiles the Day is slouthfully spent Night bringes no reioycefull ease to either spirits or corpes The Day of thy life worne out in the well disposed houres of a religious obedience thy body shall rest in a perfumed Graue and thy soule in the bosome of Abraham when Night comes but whiles pride surfets oppressions wantonnes haue shared the Day the Night comes with no lesse suddennesse then sorrow thy rest shal be vnrest neither easier then smoake and thornes and flames nor shorter then the eternitie of all these can make it Oh then what folly madnes selfe-enmitie is this to play out our short Day and howle vnder the pressure of working tormentes for an euerlasting Night Wee are come to the last fruite that I shall gather you from this Tree and it growes on three branches the whole body of it being applyed to the maner not the matter of the Question the matter is first satisfied The Morning comes the Night the maner is now touched If ye will aske enquire returne and come You aske in derision keepe the Cloth but reiect the Fashion Aske still but to repentance Let your demaundes manifest your desires of resolution If ye will aske and needes be acquainted with your sorrowes Enquire with humilitie reuerence fayth Returne from your sinnes by repentance and come home to God by obedience Triplex ex arbore fructus heere is a threefold fruite from this Tree whereon let your soules feede and then depart to refresh your bodyes Enquire Wee must not looke that God should seeke vs with his blessinges as Elias was charged to runne by the way of the Wildernesse in quest of Hazael to annoynt him No Seeke yee the Lord whiles he may be found the rule of the Prophet is iust the Rich man comes not to the Beggars dore with reliefe in his hand but the Beggar to his for it there is small reason to expect it from God that he should both giue and seeke I confesse he doth as Christ testifies of himselfe I came to seeke and to saue that which was lost but withall he conueyes into our heartes a preuenting Grace to seeke him Hence the Condition is annexed to the Graunt by the giuer himselfe Aske and you shall haue Enquire and you shall be satisfied But if any will be ignoraunt let them be ignoraunt still If you aske mee 1. Where you should Enquire Our Prophet directes you To the Law to the Testimonie Where should a people enquire 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 Verbe the Lord sayth Earely the Deuill sayth Tarry to whom you harken iudge your selues One thing onely take heed you stay not too long the Deuill is a false Sexton and settes the Clocke too slow that the Night comes ere we be aware tarry not then till your piles of Vsuries heapes of Deceites mountaines of Blasphemies haue caused God to hide himselfe and will not be found There is a Sera nimis hora time too late which Esau fell vnluckily into when hee sought the Blessing with teares and could not find it It may be the Statues or the Guides or thy owne Eies may be denied thee then too late thou Enquirest Whiles the Booke of God is not perused his Temples not freuented nor his Throne sollicited by Prayers hard heartednesse steales on vs and like Sampson bound by the Philistims wee would breake their Bondes and cast their Cordes from vs but our Dalilah our Folly hath beguiled vs. Is this all no there is second Fruite growing on this Tree of equall necessitie greater vse After Enquiring followes Returning you are gone wrong returne into the way of Peace Enquire it first and hauing found it Returne put your feete into it God warnes you by the reuelation of his word as the Wise-men by the vision of a Dreame to Returne into your Country whither you would arriue and where onely is your rest another way If euer this exhortation was necessarie for Edom let mee thinke it fitter for England as sin-full as wee are let mee yet say there is more hope of our repentance then of Edoms our Iniquities as great our Instructions greater then theirs what remaines but our Repentance neuer more need Our sinnes are not low slow few or sleightly done negligence sinnes security sinnes contempt sinnes presumption and hard-heartednes sins here is the Scorners Chaire the Drunkardes Bench the Idle-mans Cushion the Vsurers Studie Oh where is Repentance to rowse these God is angry we haue been smitten not in the Skirts and Suburbes of our Common-wealth onely our Citie Body and whole vnitie hath been pearced to the soule The whole Head hath been sicke and whole Heart heauy Where is the phisicke of Repentance I can shew you many Actors presenting themselues on the Theator of this World I see not Repentance play her part I can point you to Vsurie robbing grinding sucking blood cutting throates whiles he sittes in the Chimney corner heares of his Zani's whelpes vnderling Theeues ending their dayes at the Gallowes I can shew you Couetousnes sweating for gaine crowching ramping playing Ape Lion or Deuill for Money I can discouer to you Drunkennesse rising early to the Wine Malice making haste to the death of Ammon Ambition running after Honour faster then Peter to the Sepulchre Pride whirling in her Charriot Wantonnes shutting vp the windowes Bribery creeping in at the Key-hole euen when the doore of Iustice is locked vp against her Among all these I see not repentance Doth she stay till the last act I feare the tragedy of many Soules ruine will be done first This land is full of sinnes let me speake impartially this Citie as many Lines meete at the Center so all sinnes by a generall confluence to this place Glomerantur in vnum innumerae pestes Erebj The mischiefes of Hell are swarmed to one Crowde and we haue it I know there are some names in Sardj some that make Conscience of

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 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 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