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A16342	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.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1635 (1635)	STC 3256; ESTC S106258	56,433	110

holes with confusion and rottennesse before they see that day They would questionlesse lay hold upon Veronensis woolvish and bloody * If publicke meanes be wāting of making away hereticks by the ordinary Magistrate he gives allowance leave to every private man to murder the hereticke as he meetes him Franciscas de Verone Constantinus in Apology for Iohn Chastell History of the Counsell of Trent p. ●48 conclusion especially being animated thereunto by the example of the Massacre Resolution of Pope Vrbane Cau. 23.9 5. Can. Excommunicatorum We esteeme them saith he not to be murtherers who being possessed with zeale of their mother the Catholique Church against those that are excommunicated shall happen to kill any of them and by the edge of their owne Popish blood thirstinesse really eneagerd by fained conceits of their pretended persecution Decree of the Parliament of Paris That it should be lawfull to slay all the Hugonots which by publicke order was read every Sunday in every Parish And therefore to tell you in one word the end why at this time I have stood so long upon this point It is to aske you this question at close whether it be not now true and honourable mercy for GOD forbid that I should perswade any cruell thing nay and the contrary extreme cruelty to the State to execute exactly just and holy lawes upon such a generation and let every one be judge that heares me this day if he be not a party in that bloody faction or hanker that way And yet one word more and I have done I know Parsons in his miserable shifting booke about Equivocation against Doctour Morton Cardinall Perronius Beltarmine in his Apology against the Kings Monitory Preface See the Kings Answer p. 273. See Eliensis his answer to it pag. 299. and others upon whose foreheads the whore of Rome hath stamped her marke of Popish impudency charge the Protestants and Reformed Churches with these bloody passages but in so doing they deale with us as an impudent strumpet with an honest woman See how we are cleared Anticoton pa 63. Answer to certaine scandalous papers pault and as Verres dealt with Tully Verres himselfe was a very notorious theese and knew that Tully had much against him in that kind and therefore he very knavishly and impudently calls Tully a true man and that noble Oratour theese first Eliensis in his answer to Bell. Apolog. p. 299. Answer to Perron pag. 279. It is just so in this case But above all heare King Iames in the point we glory and well we may that our Religion affords no rules of rebellion nor allowes and grants any dipensation to subjects for the oath of their Alleageance and that none of our Churches give entertainement unto such monstrous and abominable principles of disloyalty And as concerning Iunius Brutus Ibid. pa. 277. whom they object his Majesty answers That he is an Author unknowne and perhaps of purpose patched up by some Romanist with a tricke of wily deceit to draw the reformed Religion into hatred with Christian Princes If we were in the same predicament with the Papists this way how comes it to passe that our English Popelings have made so many bloody assaults against the sacred persons of Queene Elizabeth and King Iames and the Protestants of France having farre better opportunity and more power have never stird rebelliously against their Kings Kings Answer to Perron pag. ●73 of whom King Iames thus speakes I could never yet learne by any good and true intelligence that in France those of the Religion tooke armes at any time against their King much lesse then offered they to butcher or blow him up with gun-powder I have thus farre discovered in the first Use the most pestilent opposites and cut-throates of Government and Kingly Majesty at this day in Christendome I now come to a second Use. Vse 2. If Government be such a goodly thing as hath beene proved before then all that heare me this day and every mothers child in this Land I say we are all bound to blesse GOD upon our knees and to put it as a sweet perfume into our daily sacrifice of thankesgiving for being bred brought up under so blessed and happy a Government in the Sun-shine of the Gospell and under the wings of IEHOVAH What staid or restrained the Omnipotent arme of GOD from creating any of us and planting us upon earth in the unhappy dayes of Queene Mary when we might either have beene damned or burned or in the bloody times of Lancaster and Yorke or when the mists of Popery and insolent domineering of that man of sinne enthrald under the most grievous yoke of miserable bondage both the Crowne and consciences of this Kingdome or under some Pagan Turkish or Tyrannicall Government or neighbouring Popish Country or which also had not beene so comfortable in the persecuted or Schismaticall parts of the Church it was nothing but GODs owne meere mercy respiting and remitting our being upon earth to better and more blessed times and place It was that and that alone which ordered and appointed our lot of living here in that golden knot of time as it were and the very Diamond of the ring of that happier revolution since CHRISTS dayes I meane in the most orient and comfortable breaking out of GODs holy truth from under the cloudes of Antichristian darkenesse and in this little nooke of the world where the Gospell shines with such glory truth and peace and under the kindly warmth and influence of two the most glorious Queene Elizabeth King Iames. Starres that ever moved or gaue light in Englands Hemisphere What beasts are they then that daily doe their utmost to bereave and rob us both of GODs blessing and this warme Sunne and hale downe all they can with strong cart-ropes of iniquity the vengeance of GOD upon the face of this noble and famous Kingdome and such are all the wicked amongst us and those that hate to be reformed Ale-house-hunters pot-companions good-fellowes drunkards are the most pestilent and cursed canker-wormes that gnaw at the very-heart and sinew of the glory and strength of the State And like audacious and outragious Giants even wrastle with heaven and by powring in of strong drinke labour might and maine to pull downe the full viols of GODs fiercest wrath See Isa. 28.1 2 3. upon our heads And therefore if there be any Iustice of Peace which is a secret supporter of any rotten Ale-house he is a great plague to the place where he dwells whether it be Towne or City The cruell Usurer is the cut-throate of the Country where he kennels See what a deale of compassionlesse miseries and confusion a company of such caterpillers brought upon the infant Replantation of the new returned Iewes Neh. 5. 2 7. The swearer and tearer of GODs glorious Name by his blasphemous breath gives wings to the flying booke of GODs curse Zach. 5.2 3. and is able to

to civill honesty and conscionable dealing with our Brethren none shall ever see the LORD Thirdly I meane not the superstitious Puritane who out of a furious selfe-love to his owne will-worship and sencelesse doting upon old Popish customes thinkes himselfe to be the onely holy devoid man and all forward professours prophane You shall heare a knot of such fellowes speake Esa. 65.5 Come not neere to me for I am holyer then thou Fourthly I meane not the Pharisaicall Puritane characterized to the life Luke 18.11 12. Who being passingly proud of the godly flourish of out-side Christianity thinkes himselfe to be in the onely true spirituall temper and whatsoever is short of him to be prophanenesse and whatsoever to be above him to be precisenesse Now these kinds are true Puritanes indeed for they thinke themselves to be the onely men and all others hypocrites whereas poore soules they were yet never acquainted with the great mystery of grace but are meere strangers to that glorious worke of conversion pangs of the new birth wrastling with inward corruptions breaking their hearts and powring out their soules every day before GOD in secret open heartednesse and bountifull doles to distressed Christians and the poore members of CHRIST selfe denyall heavenly mindednesse walking with GOD c. Fiftly I meane not the true Catharists pestilent heretikes about the yeare of our LORD 253. See Hos●cent 3. lib. 3. cap 8. pag. 163. c. See Epiphapa pag. 222. See Euseb. Hist. Eccles lib. 6. cap. 42. pag 79. See Hos. Cent. 4. lib. 2. ca. 25. pag. 173. c. See Hos. Cent. 4. ibid. pag. 17. They were also called Novatians of Novatus their Authour but Cathari from their opinions and profession who wickedly denyed to the relapsed reception into the Church upon repentance c. and called themselves pure Sixtly I meane not the African Donatists about the yeare of our LORD 331. who were also called Circumcelliones Circuitores Paermeniani Montanistae Montenses Seventhly Not the furious Anabaptists of our times who are as like the ancient Donatists as if they had spit them out of their mouth Eightly Not the giddy Separist Ninthly Nor the unwarrantable Opinionist quâ talis as ungroundedly disopinionated I speake thus because I am perswaded good men may differ in things indifferent without prejudice of salvation or just cause of breach of charity or Disunion of affections If I see the power of grace soundly appeare in a mans whole carriage and a constant partaking with GOD good causes and good men he shall for my part be ever right deare unto my heart though he differ from me in some indifferent things By Puritanes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then I meane onely such as IESVS CHRIST his owne mouth stileth so Iohn 13.10 and 15.3 The same word is used here but in a more blessed sence that Eusebius hath to describe equivocally the cursed Sect of the Novatians You are all pure or cleane saith CHRIST by the word which I have spoken unto you I meane then onely CHRIST 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom the powerfull worke of the Word hath regenerated and possessed with purity of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. holinesse of affections and unspottednesse of life to whom he promiseth blessednesse Matth. 5.8 Blessed are the pure in heart And to whom alone his beloved Apostle promiseth the blessed vision of GOD in glory 1 Iohn 3.3 Now that the name of Puritanes which is as you may conceive by that which hath beene said a very equivocall terme is put upon such as these in contempt See Disc. of True Happines pag. 193. and reproach is more then manifest by a thousand experiences and by the testimony of a great Doctour at Saint Pauls Crosse. And yet I date say the greatest opposites to these derided wayes of purity if he dye not like drunken Nabal would upon his bed of death give ten thousand worlds And I prove it out of Bish. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Abrahams Tryall pag. 72. to have lived as one of them And through the name of Puritane by a malicious equivocation they strike at the very heart of grace and the power of godlinesse Puritanos Puritanos inclamant vociserätur at per puritanorum latera orthodoxam vu●nerant veritatem Secondly I adde thorow the sides of this Nickname they have laboured to wound and lay wast the truth of our blessed Religion as pure as any since the Apostles time c. Heare what I heard Doctor Abbots Professour there complaine of at Oxford Act. What Doctor Hackwell saith of Carrier Thus those whom we call Papists he calls temperate Protestants and those whom we call Protestants he calls State Puritanes Epist. Dedicator He concludes it by good consequent that by Carriers assertion Harlwell against Carrier pag. 104. our greatest Bishops our wisest Counsellours our gravest Iudges and our Soveraigne himselfe must be accounted the great masters of Schismes 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 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 But plant once the eye of faith in the face of the soule which will utterly darken with its heavenly brightnesse the eyes of sence and carnall reason as the presence of the Sunne obscures the starres and then and then alone and never before we shall be able to looke upon the world set out in the gandiest manner with all her baites and bables of riches honours favours greatnesse 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 IESVS CHRIST embraced in the armes of their faith so fills and satisfies the soule that so they may please him they are at a point for any worldly preferment except it comes fairely by good meanes and his allowance Here then it will be very seasonable to give some light for tryall whether you have IESUS CHRIST already or no if not how to get him for both which purposes know that that blessed LORD of life is brought into the soule by such saving workes of the Spirit such degrees and acts as those described in my booke of Comforting afflicted consciences Secondly Let them enter into their Offices Benefices preferments high roomes in GODs name I meane not by money or any wicked meanes not by Symony bribery flattery temporising not by any trickes over-reaching undermining supplanting competitours imployment in any vile service not by any basenesse or iniquity at

before him to the bottome and that with gravity and in earnest out of a spirituall prudence to take all advantages and fit opportunities to suppresse the flouds of Belial to disgrace a gracelesse and honour an honest man otherwise he will be so farre from being a good Patriot that he may prove a very plague to the Country There is not a more notorious villany there can be no greater wrong and greater indignity offered to an ingenious and free people then to have a Magistrate set over them which adding craft to his power and skill welds them all three to worke his owne ends and practise his private revenge from time to time upon his supposed opposites Fourthly Men of of truth Let them be true-hearted Nathaniels in their private and personall conversation let them prize and preferre the truth in all causes that are brought unto them and all matters they medle with before gold or friend favourite or richest fauour There is a truth in things when they are conformable to the divine Idea There is a truth in the mind when there is an adequation betweene the conceit and the thing apprehended out of the understanding There is a truth in the tongue when there is an agreement betweene the speech and the thought There is a truth in the action when there is a correspondency betweene a mans word and deed let me adde a fist fittest for the present to make you compleatly true There is also a truth let them consider of it seriously whom it neerely concernes when the verdict answers exactly and punctually to the evidence and the Sentence to the true meaning of the Law Fifthly Haters of covetousnesse For assuredly if these Kite-footed corruptions domineere in the Magistrate all is mard then must his high place honour friends favourites servants dependants officers all occasions circumstances advantages wit pollicy nay religion conscience and all be made to serve and feede this unsatiable daughter of the horse-leach Sacriledge that monstrous incongruity of Laymens taking Titnes and not preaching to the people Isa. 59.14 Symony bribery turning of judgement away backeward temporising betraying the truth and good causes selling of offices benefices Iustice silence sharking of under officers c. are the filthy vermine that breed onely in this Burrow Excellent then was the counsell of * Praees ut de subditis crescas nequaquamsed ut ipsi de te Bernard to Eugenius So rule that the people may prosper and grow rich under thee and not thou wealthy by them Sixtly Such as feare GOD Here is the life and crowne which gives a spirituall being and gracious beauty to all the rest which were it possible a man could possesse in perfection yet without this they would be but as matter without forme a body without a soule a soule without IESVS CHRIST Nay in this case the greater sufficiency would prove but as a sharper sword in a madder hand ever the greater man without grace the greater beast as a good Divine concludes from that Psal. 49.20 Man that is in honour and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish If the feare of GOD be not planted in the heart to season and sanctifie the other severall endowments They will all degenerate wisdome into craft power into private revenge valour into violence prudence into plotting for his owne ends courage into foole hardinesse to uphold a faction pollicy into putting faire pretences upon soule businesses all his abilities and sufficiencies into setting foreward and securing his owne temporall happinesse If this holds him not in and serves him as a load-starre to steere still aright we cannot looke for an universall uprightnesse and constancy of just dealing in any man of place but sometimes at least especially in time of some great tryall and when he is put to it indeede he will slinke and fall off A great man his friend his enemy his feare cowardlinesse affection faction covetousnesse malice or something will ever and anon transport inordinately and sway him away So that he will be in great danger of turning judgement into gall and righteousnesse into hemlocke Seventhly Men well knowne And that two wayes principally for the present purpose 1. To be honest in their personall conversation if there be but any one sinne that corrupts their conscience staines their life or disgraces their calling to which they give allowance in themselves it will not onely hinder and discourage them from drawing the sword against that but also the sence of its guiltinesse will put such an universall faintnesse in the arme of Iustice that they will be much disabled from a resolute execution of their place and cordiall punishment of sinne 2. To rule well their owne house 1 Tim. 3.5 If a man saith the Apostle knoweth not how to rule his owne house how shall hee take care of the Church of GOD or indeed any publicke charge at all Is it fit thinke you for one to be a Iustice of Peace who is a swearer himselfe c. and harbours under his roofe drunkards swearers scorners of Religion Papists c. Is such a man fit or like to execute with any heart or resolution those excellent acts against swearing drunkennesse Recusancy c. upon offenders abroad Is it fit for a man to undertake any Ministeriall charge who is an haunter of Ale-houses a fashion-monger an idle fellow himselfe and a patrone of good-fellowes and if he hath a family had never any care to pray evening and morning sing Psalmes c Is such a companion like to lift up his voyce like a Trumpet against the sinnes of the time and stand at swords point against the severall corruptions all the sinfull prophanations of his Parish himselfe being a notorious delinquent A Magistrate thus endowed as the Scripture appoints is a man after GODs owne heart and a starre in his right hand he that wants any of these is but a blazing Comet how high soever he seemes to soare 2. By Reasons The first may be taken from the maine and principall end of all government Regall or subordinate To wit the advancement of the Kingdome of IESUS CHRIST and the cherishing of his Children For let men of the world which have their portion onely in this life thinke and say what they list it is for the sakes and safety of the Saints alone whom they looke upon so disdainefully themselves being extremely contemptible and would if they might have leave trample them into the dust with the feet of pride malice who ordinarily become the drunkards song a by-word to men viler then the earth and Musicke at the tables of gracelesse great ones I say it is onely for them that the mighty LORD of heaven not onely supports and preserves all the States and Monarchies all the Common-weales and Kingdoms of the earth but even the world it selfe Assuredly when the last of these Elected ones whom GOD hath everlastingly loved from before all worlds shall be called converted and fitted