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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

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 neere● 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 misericordi●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 E●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