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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.
That right noble carriage of mighty Tamerlane, a Scythian, and commander of the Tartars, who is reported in the Turkish Story, never to have bestowed his preferments upon such as ambitiously sought them, (as deeming them in so doing, unworthy thereof,) but upon such as whose modesty or desert, he thought worthy of those his great favours.
That right noble carriage of mighty Tamerlane, a Scythian, and commander of the Tarrars, who is reported in the Turkish Story, never to have bestowed his preferments upon such as ambitiously sought them, (as deeming them in so doing, unworthy thereof,) but upon such as whose modesty or desert, he thought worthy of those his great favours.
We are come unto a strange pass, that it should be holden a Puritanical point, to condemn all corrupt coming into places of preferment, and public charge, sith even politic Pagans, and barbarous Nations, out of light of reason, and ordinary notions of nature, did abhor it. And no marvel, for besides motives of piety, and the fear of GOD, which they wanted, even grounds ⟨p. 91⟩of policy, give us to understand, that this base, and accursed course, was able to become the bane, and break-neck of the strongest States upon earth in short time. I leave it to your wisdoms to weigh well in your own bosoms, what strange degenerations from worth, and honour; what fearful Apostasy from orthodoxenesse, and zeal, it may bring upon a Commonweal in few years.
We are come unto a strange passe, that it should be holden a Puritanicall point, to condemne all corrupt comming into places of preferment, and publicke charge, sith even politicke Pagans, and barbarous Nations, out of light of reason, and ordinary notions of nature, did abhorre it. And no marvell, for besides motives of piety, and the feare of GOD, which they wanted, even grounds ⟨p. 91⟩of policy, give us to understand, that this base, and accursed course, was able to become the bane, and breake-necke of the strongest States upon earth in short time. I leave it to your wisdomes to weigh well in your owne bosomes, what strange degenerations from worth, and honour; what fearefull Apostasie from orthodoxenesse, and zeale, it may bring upon a Commonweale in few yeares.