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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.
Secondly, Wise, sapient men, Such as are skill-full in the Theory, nature, mystery and meaning of the place, and Office into which they are to be preferred. A man can never happily execute, and successfully, any function, office, or Art, which is not learned in the speculative part, before he descend unto the practic. Is it fit think you, for a man to plead at the Bar, before he hath well studied, and profitably passed through the course of the Common-law? If a Physician should fall to practise, before he be skilled in Hippocrates & Galen, in the natures, causes, signs, symptoms, prognostics, and remedies of diseases, he is like enough to kill all before him. Proportionable miseries and mischief, may be expected, and ensue, when important places are pressed into, and undertaken without habitual understanding, and speculative skill what belongs unto them. It is a pitiful thing, when a man will ⟨p. 61⟩needs thrust into public employments, only for the gain and honour, and depend upon others for the discharge of them, or else do them beastlily.
Secondly, Wise, sapient men, Such as are skil-full in the Theory, nature, mystery and meaning of the place, and Office into which they are to be preferred. A man can never happily execute, and successefully, any function, office, or Art, which is not learned in the speculative part, before he descend unto the practicke. Is it fit thinke you, for a man to plead at the Barre, before he hath well studyed, and profitably passed thorow the course of the Common-law? If a Physician should fall to practise, before he be skilled in Hypocrates & Galen, in the natures, causes, signes, symptoms, prognosticks, and remedies of diseases, he is like enough to kill all before him. Proportionable miseries and mischiefe, may be expected, and ensue, when important places are prest into, and undertaken without habituall understanding, and speculative skill what belongs unto them. It is a pittifull thing, when a man will ⟨p. 61⟩needes thrust into publicke imployments, onely for the gaine and honour, and depend upon others for the discharge of them, or else doe them beastlily.