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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.
Their reasons for this point are as weak as water, and fly but with one wing.
Their reasons for this point are as weake as water, and flie but with one wing.
Those of best show are these, which I refute in a word.
Those of best shew are these, which I refute in a word.
First, He that was first King in the world, to wit Nimrod, made himself King by force, not by the ordinance of GOD. Ergo, &c.
First, He that was first King in the world, to wit Nimrod, made himselfe King by force, not by the ordinance of GOD. Ergo, &c.
So. The Antecedent is false; before Nimrod, fathers and heads of families were Kings, Priests, and sovereign Princes of their families. For after the flood men lived five or six hundred years. Then it was an easy matter for a man to see fifty, yea a hundred thousand persons of his posterity, over whom he exercised paternal power, and by consequence, sovereign power; then when there was no other form of a Realm upon the earth; to which children, their servants being added, one family alone made a great Common-wealth. Likewise in Abraham's time, when mans life was much shortened: he was called by the Hittites, a mighty Prince,