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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, When Ministers like those daubers with untempered mortar, and pillow-sowers under mens elbows. Ezech. 13. make the heart of the righteous sad, whom GOD hath not made sad, and strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life. As it is in the last verse but one of that Chapter.
Secondly, When Ministers like those dawbers with untempered mortar, and pillow-sowers under mens elbowes. Ezech. 13. make the heart of the righteous sad, whom GOD hath not made sad, and strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not turne from his wicked way, by promising him life. As it is in the last verse but one of that Chapter.
Thirdly, By tampering with our Articles of Religion, (as sound and orthodox, for any thing I know, as any, since the Apostles times, which make our Church as happy at this day, as any under the cope of heaven. If we be so happy as to hold them in that purity, and true sense, as we received them of our predecessors, and as they came streaming down to us in the blood of our glorious Martyrs) by labouring to put false glosses upon them, & talking of some reconcilement of our Church to the Romish Synagogue, which is as impossible, as to reconcile CHRIST unto Antichrist. Besides the concurrent judgement of ⟨p. 77⟩those uncomparable, and renowned Divines in Queen Elizabeths time, our present orthodox Divines, and Doctors, apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy and utter impossibility, speaking thus; Roma is irreconciliabilis, saith the Bishop of Exeter: Light and darkness may meet, saith another, in the twilight, but mid-day and mid-night can never possibly come together; and such is Popery, and Protestancy. The truth is, saith Doctor Worship, such is the antipathy between a Protestant and a Papist, as there is between the two birds in Plutarch, the Siskin, and the Muskin, which will fight eagerly alive, and being dead, if you mix their blood it will run apart, and dissociate. They are like the two poles of heaven, saith another, which stand for ever directly, and diametrically opposite.