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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 who I pray you, was this Gregory the seventh? it was Hildebrand, the scourge of Emperors, the fire-brand of war, the scorn of his ⟨p. 24⟩age. So that a base Pope, being a party, and in his own cause, setting his foot upon the neck of Henry the fourth, must countervail and overweigh the authority of GODs Word, two of the worthiest Fathers, that ever former times enjoyed, Reason, Conscience, Nature, grounds of common sense, every thing, any thing; for he is a Pope forsooth, and therefore an infallible Vicar upon earth.
And who I pray you, was this Gregory the seventh? it was Hildebrand, the scourge of Emperours, the fire-brand of warre, the scorne of his ⟨p. 24⟩age. So that a base Pope, being a party, and in his owne cause, setting his foot upon the necke of Henry the fourth, must contervaile and overweigh the authority of GODs Word, two of the worthiest Fathers, that ever former times enjoyed, Reason, Conscience, Nature, grounds of common sence, every thing, any thing; for he is a Pope forsooth, and therefore an infallible Vicar upon earth.
Fourthly, At length, in the fourth place, they are arrived at the very height of that prodigious and transcendent rage, that makes it very probable, that the Pope is that purple whore arrayed in scarlet colour, Rev. 17.4. and drunken with blood, ver. 6. And it is more then a miracle, that Christian Kings suffer that bloody beast to sit so long upon the seven hills: they are now come, I say, first, to the killing of Kings, secondly, to teach the killing of Kings, thirdly, to defend the killing of Kings: For that last starting hole, and evasion of Cardinal Peronius, 1and other Jesuits is ridiculous. That they kill not Kings in Esse: but first they un-king a King, and then kill a King, when he is not a King but a private person; upon this very point King James breaks out most justly out of a Royal indignation of his noble spirit, O hell-hounds,