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Two sermons preached at Northampton at two several assizes there The one in the…Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the…
Two sermons preached at Northampton at two several assizes there The one in the time of the shrievalty of Sir Erasmus Dryden Baronet. Anno Domini, 1621. The other in the time of the shrievalty of Sir Henry Robinson Knight, anno Domini, 1629. By Robert Bolton ... Published by E.B.Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Erasmus Dryden Baronet. Anno Domini, 1621. The other in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Henry Robinson Knight, anno Domini, 1629. By Robert Bolton ... Published by E.B.
London: printed by George Miller, 1635
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, They daily do their utmost at ⟨p. 30⟩home, & a broad, to cross King James his princely Admonition unto them, in his first speech in the Parliament; wherein he admonished the Papists that, they would not so far presume upon his lenity, as thereupon to think it lawful for them, to increase their number & strength in his Kingdom, whereby if not in his time, yet at least in time of his Posterity, they might be in hope to erect their religion again.
Secondly, They daily doe their utmost at ⟨p. 30⟩home, & a broade, to crosse King Iames his princely Admonition unto them, in his first speech in the Parliament; wherein he admonished the Papists that, they would not so farre presume upon his lenity, as thereupon to thinke it lawfull for them, to increase their number & strength in his Kingdome, whereby if not in his time, yet at least in time of his Posterity, they might be in hope to erect their religion againe.
Thirdly, If the day should come they have so long looked for, (but I hope in the LORD, all their eyes shall drop out of their holes with confusion and rottenness, before they see that day.) They would questionless lay hold upon Veronensis wolvish and bloody *conclusion; especially being animated thereunto by the example of the Massacre: Resolution of Pope Urbane, Cau. 23.9. 5. Can. Excommunicatorum.] We esteem them, (saith he,) not to be murderers, who being possessed with zeal of their mother, the Catholic Church, against those that are excommunicated, shall happen to kill any of them: and by the edge of their own Popish blood thirstiness, really eneagerd, by feigned conceits of their pretended persecution. Decree of the Parliament of Paris: That it should be lawful to slay all the Huguenots; which by public order was read every Sunday in every Parish. And therefore to tell you in one word, the end why at this time I have stood so long upon this point. It is to ask you this question, at close, whether it be not now true and honourable mercy, (for GOD forbid, that I should persuade any