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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
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Fabricius, that famous Roman, was so precise, that (as it is reported of him) it was easier to turn ⟨p. 51⟩the Sun from his course, then to draw Fabricius from just and honest dealing. King Pyrrhus could with no gold or gifts, no not with promise of the fourth part of his Kingdom, possibly corrupt this man; And yet how many miserable men in this very mid-day of the Gospel will be easily drawn by a secret bribe, office, honour, preferment, some earthly favour, to do villainously, to betray a good cause, a good man, and a good conscience to shame himself for ever, grow odious to GOD and man, and go to hell.
Fabricius, that famous Roman, was so precise, that (as it is reported of him) it was easier to turn ⟨p. 51⟩the Sunne from his course, then to draw Fabricius from just and honest dealing. King Pyrrhus could with no gold or gifts, no not with promise of the fourth part of his Kingdome, possibly corrupt this man; And yet how many miserable men in this very mid-day of the Gospell will be easily drawn by a secret bribe, office, honour, preferment, some earthly favour, to doe villanously, to betray a good cause, a good man, and a good conscience to shame himselfe for ever, grow odious to GOD and man, and goe to hell.
In these dissolute and formal times, would it not be deemed to draw towards too much strictness, if a Minister should press this duty upon Lawyers; that every time before they go out of their doors to plead at the Bar, they should prostrate themselves in private, and besides other passages, pray unto GOD, that he would so guide their tongues that day, that they may speak nothing but advisedly, and to the purpose. And yet Pericles that famous Orator of Greece, who for the excellency of his eloquency, and mightiness of his speech, was said to thunder, and lighten at the Bar, out of the very principles of nature, and natural sense of of a Deity, ever before he went to plead a cause, (as Plutarch tells us in his life) entreated his GODs, that not a word should fall from him besides his purpose; which he practised no doubt, out of conscience of Plato's principle in Tim.