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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.
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. 1That in all things we go about, GODs help by prayer is to be craved. In the administration and execution of Justice, ⟨p. 52⟩many of them, though led only and enlightened by the conduct of reason, were extraordinarily exact, and of admirable integrity.
In these dissolute and formall times, would it not be deemed to draw towards too much strictnesse, if a Minister should presse this duty upon Lawyers; that every time before they goe out of their doores to plead at the Barre, 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 speake nothing but advisedly, and to the purpose. And yet Pericles that famous Oratour of Greece, who for the excellency of his eloquency, and mightinesse of his speech, was said to thunder, and lighten at the Barre, out of the very principles of nature, and naturall sense of of a Deity, ever before he went to plead a cause, (as Plutarch tells us in his life) intreated his GODs, that not a word should fall from him besides his purpose; which he practised no doubt, out of conscience of Platoes principle in Tim. 1That in all things we goe about, GODs helpe by prayer is to be craved. In the administration and execution of Iustice, ⟨p. 52⟩many of them, though led onely and inlightned by the conduct of reason, were extraordinarily exact, and of admirable integrity.