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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

sacred influence not onely to fill the body with marrow and fatnesse inspire the affections with a calme and composed sweetnesse but also begets in the spirit that strong and heavenly vigour which inkindles and keepes in life all such true courage and noble resolution There may be a brazen-face and much foole-hardinesse without grace but never a brave mind indeed and spirit of steele A wicked man advanced and hoisted into some high place may looke bigge domineere and give foule words Nay to be plausible and please he may doe many good things stand to it stoutly a good while but bring him once to a strong temptation or tryall put him upon the push of the Pikes and he will presently pull in the hornes and start a side like a broken bow He that is a slave to his lusts and slavishly serves the time will be sure to hide his head at the rising of every storme and ever turne true coward when his temporary happinesse is hazarded And cowards as a worthy Divine hath characterized them are slaves to their superiours fellow-fooles to their equals tyrants to their inferiours and wind-mills to popular breath not being able to any of these to say so much as No. Thirdly unrighteous Rulers are the onely men to ruine a Kingdome wicked Magistrates and Ministers are able in a short time to dissolve the sinewes of the strongest State in Christendome and to bring the most flourishing Church of the world into confusion Many wayes is the measure of a peoples rebellion made up and full ripe and ready for the Sicle of GODs vengeance and beesome of utter destruction by many abominations is the LORDS indignation set on fire against a Nation but I know not whether by any more set Idolatry aside then by perverting of Iustice when judgement is turned away backward and Iustice standeth a farre off when truth is fallen in the street Alas for pitty where so many passe by and not put to their helping-hand and equity cannot enter O the LORD the righteous Iudge of all the world is extremely angry when judgement goes not forth and Iustice is turned into gall when those that sit in his place either judge not at all or judge unjustly punishing the innocent which should be cleared and clearing the guilty who should be punished When private men do wrong the sinne is their owne it is their personall offence and they must answer it with their heads but if private mens enormities and abominations passe unpunished be borne with or boulstred out by authority if the wicked be justified and the just condemned if execution be not done upon Achans if he be saved whom GOD hath appointed to dye if publicke power be villanously abused to private revenge profit or pleasuring of great ones if good Lawes be not executed for the protection of the innocent and punishing of the wicked In a word if publicke Tribunals and seates of Iustice be any wayes corrupted if Iustice that glorious ciment of all societies be neglected or perverted if truth fall in the streete and equity grow lame I say then the offence growes publicke even the sinne of the whole Kingdome and causeth GOD to enter into judgement not with the Elders of his people and Princes alone but with the whole Land even with the State in generall Heare the Prophets of old expressing GODS mind herein Esayah 59.14 15 16 17. Let us take notice and tremble Iudgement is turned away backward and Iustice standeth a farre off for truth is fallen in the streete and equity cannot enter Nay truth faileth and be that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey and the LORD saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgement And he saw there was no man and wondered that there was no Intercessour Therefore his arme brought salvation unto him and righteousnesse it sustained him For hee put on righteousnesse as a brest-plate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and he put on the garment of vengeance for cloathing and was clad with zeale as a cloake Ier. 5.27 28 29 30 31. As a cage is full of birds so is their houses full of deceit He meanes wealth hoarded up by dishonest gaine therefore they are become great and waxen rich They are waxen fat they shine yea they overpasse the deeds of the wicked they judge not the cause of the fatherlesse yet they prosper and the right of the needy they doe not judge Shall I not visite these things saith the LORD Shall not my soule be avenged on such a nation as this as if he had said I will be most certainely and severely revenged of it A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the Land the Prophets prophecy falsely and the Priests beare rule by their meanes and my people love to have it so And what will you doe in the end thereof Mich. 3.9 10 11 12. Heare this I pray you ye heads of the house of Iacob and Princes of the house of Israel that abhorre judgement and pervert all equity They build up Ston with blood and Ierusalem with iniquity The heads thereof judge for reward and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they leave upon the LORD and say is not the LORD amongst us None evill can come upon us Therefore shall Sion for your sake be plowed up as a field and Ierusalem shall become heaps and the mountaines of the house as the high places of the forrest Unrighteous Ministers also as well as wicked Magistrates doe a great deale of mischiefe to a State and hasten captivity Their unjust dealings in their place are by so much the more pestilent by how much the condition of their calling is of its owne nature most excellent Degeneratio optimi pessima See the perniciousnesse of their unrighteous ruling in two or three passages First when they take temporary things from their people but make no conscience take no care to give them spirituall The blood of those soules which perish under the unconscionable and cruell negligence of an unfaithfull Pastour pierceth the heavens with a more horrible crye then the lowdest thunder able to pull downe plagues and dreadfull judgements upon a whole Land especially where such bloody sloath is pleaded for and not punished O but will some say when the Sermon is done these are great words indeed swelling phrases c. Projicit ampullas sesqui pedalia verba No no that is not it it is the true and piercing sense of these honest words meeting with your galled and guilty consciences which makes you rage and stampe and rayle I assure you if we were able to compose words of thunder and lightnings they would be too weake to awake a great number out of their cursed cruelty of horred blood-shed in this kind Secondly When Ministers like those dawbers with untempered mortar and pillow-sowers under mens elbowes Ezech. 13. make the heart of the righteous sad whom GOD hath not made sad

and strengthen the hands of the wicked that he should not turne from his wicked way by promising him life As it is in the last verse but one of that Chapter Thirdly By tampering with our Articles of Religion as sound and orthodoxe for any thing I know as any since the Apostles times which make our Church as happy at this day as any under the cope of heaven If we be so happy as to hold them in that purity and true sence as we received them of our predecessours and as they came streaming downe to us in the blood of our glorious Martyrs by labouring to put false glosses upon them talking of some reconcilement of our Church to the Romish Synagogue which is as impossible as to reconcile CHRIST unto Antichrist Besides the concurrent judgement of those uncomparable and renowned Divines in Queene Elizabeths time our present orthodoxe Divines and Doctours apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy and utter impossibility speaking thus Roma is irreconciliabilis saith the Bishop of Exceter Light and darknesse may meete saith another in the twilight but mid-day and mid-night can never possibly come together and such is Popery and Protestancy The truth is saith Doctour Worship such is the antipathy betweene a Protestant and a Papist as there is betweene the two birds in Plutarch the Siskin and the Muskin which will fight eagerly alive and being dead if you mixe their blood it will runne apart and dissociate They are like the two poles of heaven saith another which stand for ever directly and diametrically opposite If any by the way marvell why I meete with Ministers let them know First That many of my Breethren are in mine eye and a worthy part of this great Auditory Secondly That the Civill Magistrate may see whereas we preach impartiallity to them we are not partiall towards our owne Tribe As we desire to deale faithfully with them so we spare not our owne Coat And that all the world may know that we approve no Ministery in this Church but that which is honest orthodoxe and painefull Thirdly Ministers lye directly within the verge of my Text. For we are called Rectours Rulers and our Personages Rectories See Case lib. 3. ●ap 3. pag. 215. Even honest Politicians require righteousnesse in Rulers for many reasons 1. Because they are as it were earthly Gods and represent the person of GOD himselfe in their places of Authority and upon their just Tribunals 2. For the eminency of their honour which is due not to the man but to his vertue 3. For imitation to those who shall succeede them in their places who will looke backe upon them as paternes and presidents for themselves to follow 4. For feare of scandall and giving offence which inferiours will be very apt and eager to take 5. For the universall good of those they governe which is the end of all Authority over others This point thus proved by Scriptures and Reasons I come to the Use of it which may be three-fold 1. For Reprofe 2. Instruction 3. Exhortation The time runnes away so fast that I can but onely name the two first because I desire to insist the longer enlarge my selfe the more upon the last First Reprofe to all unrighteous Rulers Ministers Magistrates or whatsoever they be Many now a dayes runne a madding after promotions and serve themselves Vijs modis into Offices Benefices preferments high roomes and being most unworthily advanced they hold in a speciall happinesse to have an hand over men farre worthyer then themselves Let them alone this is their day a day of domineering and of their fooles Paradise and serving themselves sensually but assuredly without speedy repentance turning on the better side taking GODS Childrens part There is a day a comming upon them it is neere Zeph. 1.14.15 it is neere it hasteneth greatly saith the Prophet when the mighty man shall cry bitterly That day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distresse a day of wastnesse and desolation a day of darknesse and gloominesse a day of clouds and thicke darkenes they are the words of the holy Ghost which no earthly glory no glittering of outward pompe no shining heapes of gold and silver not the Prince of all the lights in heaven nor the whole starry Firmament shall ever be able to enlighten or refresh though they swell never so bigge with pride and disdaine looke they never so high should they exalt themselves as the Eagle and set their nest among the starres they shall certainely downe with a vengeance GOD shall suddenly shoote at them with a swift arrow it is already in the Bow even a Bow of steele shall send forth an arrow that shall strike them thorow shive off their gall as Iob speaketh throw them downe into the dust Their pride and their power shall be overthrowne in the turning of an hand then must they lay downe their cold carkases among the stones of the pit at the rootes of the rocke and their poore sinfull soules must presently be presented at that last and stricktest Tribunall where never bribe or bigge looke gold or greatnesse beares any sway O then they will gnash the teeth and roare and wish that they had lyen in the dust all the dayes of their life and never knowne what preferment had meant when they shall finde by wofull experience but too late that to mighty men there are mighty torments prepared and that they shall be horribly plagued proportionably to the pestilent abuse of their high places and those publicke employments into which they have corruptly thrust themselves without cleare entrance and due calling Then will they tremble Isa. 51.20 Isa. 33.14 take on as wild Bulls in a net as Isaiah speakes full of the fury of the LORD and cry out with those sinners in Zion Who amongst us shall dwell in everlasting fire who amongst us shall dwell in everlasting burnings The day of recompence is now come upon them They have had their heaven in this world and therefore they must now have their hell in another They have domineered for a while upon earth done what they list and had what they would yet now must they downe into a land of darknesse of horrour and confusion whence they shall never rise up againe Onely repent and you may prevent all this but doe it to day we little know what sad newes the evening may bring If thou die in an impenitent estate thou art damned everlastingly and in this passage I value all men alike of what cloath soever his coate be made He that layes his foundation with fire-worke must looke to be blowne up at last he that doth not confesse his sinnes forsake them enter into the narrow way lead a new life stand on CHRISTS side love the Brother-hood he can never be saved I know not how my words be taken or mistaken yet sure I am before any man can deny this to be true or say any thing