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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.
What staid or restrained the Omnipotent arm of GOD, from creating any of us, and planting us upon earth, in the unhappy days of Queen Mary, when we might either have been damned or burned, or in the bloody times of Lancaster, ⟨p. 33⟩and York; or when the mists of Popery, and insolent domineering of that man of sin, enthralled under the most grievous yoke of miserable bondage, both the Crown and consciences of this Kingdom: or under some Pagan, Turkish, or Tyrannical Government, or neighbouring Popish Country; or (which also had not been so comfortable,) in the persecuted, or Schismatical parts of the Church? it was nothing but GODs own mere mercy, respiting and remitting our being upon earth, to better and more blessed times and place: It was that and that alone, which ordered and appointed our lot of living here, in that golden knot of time, as it were, and the very Diamond of the ring, of that happier revolution, since CHRISTS days, I mean in the most orient and comfortable breaking out of GODs holy truth, from under the clouds of Antichristian darkness: and in this little nook of the world, where the Gospel shines with such glory, truth and peace, and under the kindly warmth and influence of two the most glorious1 Stars that ever moved, or gave light in Englands Hemisphere.
What staid or restrained the Omnipotent arme of GOD, from creating any of us, and planting us upon earth, in the unhappy dayes of Queene Mary, when we might either have beene damned or burned, or in the bloody times of Lancaster, ⟨p. 33⟩and Yorke; or when the mists of Popery, and insolent domineering of that man of sinne, enthrald under the most grievous yoke of miserable bondage, both the Crowne and consciences of this Kingdome: or under some Pagan, Turkish, or Tyrannicall Government, or neighbouring Popish Country; or (which also had not beene so comfortable,) in the persecuted, or Schismaticall parts of the Church? it was nothing but GODs owne meere mercy, respiting and remitting our being upon earth, to better and more blessed times and place: It was that and that alone, which ordered and appointed our lot of living here, in that golden knot of time, as it were, and the very Diamond of the ring, of that happier revolution, since CHRISTS dayes, I meane in the most orient and comfortable breaking out of GODs holy truth, from under the cloudes of Antichristian darkenesse: and in this little nooke of the world, where the Gospell shines with such glory, truth and peace, and under the kindly warmth and influence of two the most glorious