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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.
And now I come to tender my counsel to men in Authority, and all those who are, or may be hereafter put into any place, preferment, or public employment over their brethren, that they may govern righteously, and make the people rejoice.
And now I come to tender my counsell to men in Authority, and all those who are, or may be hereafter put into any place, preferment, or publicke employment over their brethren, that they may governe righteously, and make the people rejoyce.
In the first place, let them be sure to get possession of JESUS CHRIST, and assurance upon good ground, that the all-sufficient GOD is their own. Else say, or do what ye will, men will be ambitious, covetous, sensual, they will hunt after preferments, profits, honours, precedency, or whatsoever will add to their outward happiness. ⟨p. 89⟩But plant once the eye of faith in the face of the soul, which will utterly darken with its heavenly brightness, the eyes of sense, and carnal reason, as the presence of the Sun obscures the stars, and then, and then alone, and never before, we shall be able to look upon the world, set out in the gaudiest manner, with all her baits, and babbles of riches, honours, favours, greatness, pleasures, &c. as upon an unsavoury rotten carrion. For all true Converts desire, and endeavour, and have in some good measure the world crucified to them, as they are to the world, JESUS CHRIST embraced in the arms of their faith, so fills, and satisfies the soul, that so they may please him, they are at a point for any worldly preferment, except it comes fairly by good means, and his allowance.
In the first place, let them be sure to get possession of IESUS CHRIST, and assurance upon good ground, that the all-sufficient GOD is their owne. Else say, or doe what ye will, men will be ambitious, covetous, sensuall, they will hunt after preferments, profits, honours, precedency, or whatsoever will adde to their outward happinesse. ⟨p. 89⟩