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…

Now to nullify the nothingness of the frantic bedlam Anabaptists Arguments, (they are fitter to be out of the number of men, and driven out of the border of humane nature, then to be disputed with) for abolishing Magistracy, under, I know not, what Christian perfection, as a transient Mosaical ceremony, would not be worth the while▪ I rather choose at this time to deal with the Papist, a more subtle and plausible adversary in the point, and in that regard more pestilent.

Now to nullifie the nothingnesse of the phranticke bedlam Anabaptists Arguments, (they are fitter to be out of the number of men, and driven out of the border of humane nature, then to be disputed with) for abolishing Magistracy, under, I know not, what Christian perfection, as a transient Mosaicall ceremony, would not be worth the while▪ I rather choose at this time to deale with the Papist, a more subtile and plausible adversary in the point, and in that regard more pestilent.

And here in the first place, let me point you to the fountain of those Popish fulminations and fire works,¹ which have most unworthily beaten upon, and blasted the Imperial and Regal Throne of Christendom: and the first mover, as it were, of that bloody Sphere,² which the man of sin hath turned upon the face of Europe, and torn and rent it in a rueful manner. It is this.

And here in the first place, let me point you to the fountaine of those Popish fulminations and fire workes,¹ which have most unworthily beaten upon, and blasted the Imperiall and Regall Throne of Christendome: and the first mover, as it were, of that bloody Sphere,