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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.
1Those that rule should be righteous: or thus; men in Authority should be righteous men.
- 1Doct.
That you may understand a right, what I mean by righteous, take notice of a double righteousness, first, imputed; second, inherent. Inherent two-fold, first, moral; second, religious.
That you may understand a right, what I meane by righteous, take notice of a double righteousnesse, first, imputed; second, inherent. Inherent two-fold, first, morall; second, religious.
By imputed, I mean the glorious justice of JESUS CHRIST, purchased by his blood, and obedience, and imputed as his own, most sure for ever to a truly humbled sinner, wherewith being richly and completely arrayed from top to toe, as with a Royal and everlasting Robe, he stands thereby acquit, justified and accepted at the strictest Tribunal of the ever-living GOD world without end, and so ipso facto, (as they say) becomes ever after favourite to the mighty LORD of heaven and earth; one of his jewels, as the apple of his own eye, the dearly beloved of his ⟨p. 45⟩soul, a Royal Diadem in his hand, (for so are GODs Children, though vilified by the world, yet styled in the World.)
By imputed, I meane the glorious justice of IESUS CHRIST, purchased by his blood, and obedience, and imputed as his owne, most sure for ever to a truly humbled sinner, wherewith being richly and compleatly arrayed from top to toe, as with a Royall and everlasting Robe, he stands thereby acquit, justified and accepted at the strictest Tribunall of the ever-living GOD world without end, and so ipso facto, (as they say) becomes ever after favourite to the mighty LORD of heaven and earth; one of his jewels, as the apple of his owne eye, the dearely beloved of his