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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.
Cambyses King of Persia, having detected the corruption of a Judge in his Kingdom, commands him to be put to death, his skin to be plucked off, and spread upon the Judgement Seat as a Carpet, his son to sit in the fathers throne so adorned, that he and all posterity might fear for ever to pervert Justice, and to deal untruly in judgement.
Cambyses King of Persia, having detected the corruption of a Iudge in his Kingdome, commands him to be put to death, his skin to be plucked off, and spread upon the Iudgement Seate as a Carpet, his sonne to sit in the fathers throne so adorned, that he and all posterity might feare for ever to pervert Iustice, and to deale untruly in judgement.
1The Egyptian Kings solemnly and usually presented this oath to their Judges: Not to swerve from their consciences, what command soever they should receive from themselves to the contrary.
1The Egyptian Kings solemnely and usually presented this oath to their Iudges: Not to swarve from their consciences, what cōmand soever they should receive from themselves to the contrary.
- 1Mount. Esa. pag. 479.Mount. Essa. pag. 479.
The Roman laws, called the laws of the twelve Tables,1 so often magnified by Tully, appoints, That if a Judge, or any other in Authority, for that purpose, should take money in the point of administering Justice, he should die for it. If any should bear false witness, he should be thrown down from the Tarpeian rock.