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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.
I say such as these, and in a word, all who deal uprightly, and rule in the fear of GOD, have need of a Rock, against the rage of all ungodly oppositions. And such a Rock will the GOD of Israel be unto them all; that set against them, shall set their shoulders against a Rock; all their cunning and close projects, and open base practises of all profane opposites and underminers; the plausible, politic tyrannise of those that sit in the gate, all the scurrile, dunghill rimes and railings of deboist Belial drunken jesters. All that man or Devil can any ways do against them, shall all be but like so many proud and swelling waves, which dash themselves against a strong impregnable rock, which the more boisterously they beat against it, the more desperately are they dissolved, and broken into a vain sonne or froth.
I say such as these, and in a word, all who deale uprightly, and rule in the feare of GOD, have neede of a Rocke, against the rage of all ungodly oppositions. And such a Rocke will the GOD of Israel be unto them all; that set against them, shall set their shoulders against a Rocke; all their cunning and close projects, and open base practises of all prophane opposites and underminers; the plausible, politicke tyrannise of those that sit in the gate, all the scurrill, dunghill rimes and railings of deboist Bilial drunken jesters. All that man or Devill can any wayes doe against them, shall all be but like so many proud and swelling waves, which dash themselves against a strong impregnable rocke, which the more boisterously they beate against it, the more desperatly are they dissolved, and broken into a vaine sonne or froth.
The ever glorious Princess of sweetest, and ⟨p. 58⟩dearest memory, Queen Elizabeth, is a most memorable, and matchless instance of protection in this kind. The mighty arm of GOD was as a Rock of brass, to beat back from her sacred and Royal person,1 defending the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST, such variety of murderous complotments, as no age, or story can possibly parallel. Whereas on the other side, that knife, that could but strike out the teeth of Henry the fourth, while he stuck to the truth of GOD and true Religion; upon the pulling down the Pyramis for their gratification, and admitting again those bloody firebrands and cut-throats of Christendom, the Jesuits, had power to take away his life.