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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.
Thirdly, for our purpose, let us ponder well those properties, which the Scriptures require in a man of place, Exod. 18.21. Deu. 1.13. They are seven in all, four in the first, three in the second place. I name them not in their order; you shall find them all in the Text, Magistrates should be,
Thirdly, for our purpose, let us ponder well those properties, which the Scriptures require in a man of place, Exod. 18.21. Deu. 1.13. They are seven in all, foure in the first, three in the second place. I name them not in their order; you shall finde them all in the Text, Magistrates should be,
First, Able men, apt to fill the place with some competency of parts and equality of worth, to answer and sustain, the heat and burden ⟨p. 60⟩of it, with a fit sufficiency of endowments, ability, activeness, and industry. There ever ought to be a convenient correspondency between the importance of the place, and the capacity of the party. It is a thousand pities to see in a Church, and Common-weal, many places full, and yet so few filled, when there is no proportion, nay a vast distance between the height, or rather the weight of the place, and the weakness, worthlessness, if not the notorious wickedness, of that unworthy person, who either by a golden violence, or temporising baseness, hath most impudently thrust himself into it.
First, Able men, apt to fill the place with some competency of parts and equallity of worth, to answer and sustaine, the heat and burthen ⟨p. 60⟩