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…

Besides, the Romish Locusts falling foul upon Government, upon all Imperial, Royal, and Princely power; by debasing the original of it, by disrobing it of that native reverence, due attributions, and obligations of State, which divine ordination, and purest times appropriated unto it; by teaching, acting, and approving the bloody killing of crowned Potentates, as appears before. There is another monstrous engine of Popish imposture, hammered in the heads of those hellish firebrands, which if it were generally entertained, were able in short time, to cut in pieces and dissolve the sinews, and cement of all humane society, I mean Equivocation, and mental reservation. Many cunning shifts and evasions have they coined from time to time, to cousin the State, and delude the Magistrate, in their oaths and answers before our just Tribunals. They have vainly laboured to daub over, and still their consciences against their lies and perjuries, sometimes, first, by the supposed benefit of popish dispensation. 2. Sometimes by a wicked conceit of our Magistrates incompetency. 3. Or ⟨p. 44⟩pretended unauthenticalnesse of our Bibles in English, upon which they swear. Fourthly, but at this day, they rest most upon this last Jesuitical stratagem, which was wont to be confined to Courts of Justice and more public cases; but now the Popish Casuists, by their Conclusions, begin to convey this damnable Doctrine, and accursed poison of mental reservation, into the common passages of ordinary negotiations, and conversation amongst men.

Besides, the Romish Locusts falling foule upon Government, upon all Imperiall, Royall, and Princely power; by debasing the originall of it, by disroabing it of that native reverence, due attributions, and obligations of State, which divine ordination, and purest times appropriated unto it; by teaching, acting, and approving the bloody killing of crowned Potentates, as appears before. There is another monstrous engine of Popish imposture, hammerd in the heads of those hellish firebrands, which if it were generally entertained, were able in short time, to cut in pieces and dissolve the sinewes, and ciment of all humane society, I meane Equivocation, and mentall reservation. Many cunning shifts and evasions have they coined from time to time, to cousen the State, and delude the Magistrate, in their oaths and answers before our just Tribunals. They have vainely laboured to dawbe over, and still their consciences against their lyes and perjuries, sometimes, first, by the supposed benefit of popish dispensation. 2. Somtimes by a wicked conceit of our Magistrates incompetency. 3. Or