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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.
THE SECOND ASSIZE SERMON.
THE SECOND ASSISE SERMON.
PROV. 29.2. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
PROV. 29.2. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourne.
I Have heretofore upon the same solemn occasion, observed from the first point, this Doctrine, Government is a goodly thing, I proved it, and applied it. Only give me leave, before I fall upon the second point, to add a word or two to the first Use of the former Doctrine, which fell directly, and with full edge upon the Papists, the most pestilent opposites and cut-throats of Government, and Kingly Majesty, at this day in the whole Christian world. For they teach (as I then showed at large,) that the power of Kings, Princes & Magistrates, is not ordained by ⟨p. 40⟩the divine Law of GOD, but an humane ordinance; out of which fountain have issued all those Popish fulminations, and fire-works, which have most unworthily at one time or other, beaten upon, and blasted all the Imperial, and Regal Thrones of Christendom. Nay, a fellow in the Council of trent, did fiercely labour to confute that passage of de Ferrieres Oration: That Kings were given by GOD; as heretical, and condemned by the Extravagant of Boniface the eight; Unam sanctam] if he did not distinguish,1