Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things, death ...

'all motions,OF HELL. 99_enticements, and temptations there- •stfimultigeunto: Let us hold with holy Chryfepmc,'^ That n isnXum'" n.-worfeand a, more wofall thing to offend Christ, than premnm atquc"l^i'^up"^^'"-*to k vexed with the miferies of hell. Let us profefTewith Anfelme: ^ That ifwejhouldfeethe hatefallrjes of ccnfeo,'(ic aflLfm on the onefidejandthe horror ofhell on the other, and'^"^ p^^dicabo,muft necejfardj fall into the one, we would rather choofe dTc^^ cbTftumhe IIthan fin. « It is reported alfo o^Edmundhis fuc- offedcic, quamccfTor 5 that he was wont to fay : J willrather leapeS^i^^"^^ ^^'^^t r t 1 t 1 t z'' vexari, 2dan ininto the per Jlakej than knowingly commit anjftnne a- Mat. tim zj.gain(I G o D c Let us refolve with another ofthe An- ^^ h- . . .tieiits; Rather to be tome in peeces with wild horfes^ "S' '""^>»"i"'cthan Wittingly and wilitngly commit ayiyjm. Sec for clorem,& illmcthis purpofe twenty curbing Ccnfiderations to keep "I'^^eminferfroniCin.Inftr.fir comf.afflttf. Confcpag, i o 8-nectS'^lfiillorum habcremimmGrgi,priu» me in infernum mcrgcrcm,quim peccatiiai in mc immittcrem.Malicmeniai piirus'a pjccato & innocons gchcnnam intrare, quamfcccati fordc pollatuscoel mum legna tenerc. Anfelm.ilefinHituJ.cap. i j>,* Potuis,ajcba4:, in aidentcm rogam inIilu;rOj(juan ulluai peccatuin in Dcutn com*mifcro.Jn marg,2. ThePaineoffenfe. The exri'emity, exquisite- ^f^etommstHneffe and eternity whereof, no tongue can pofliblycxprcfre,or heart conceive. Confider before-hand,what an unfpeakeable raifery it would be (and yetit would not be fo much as a flea-biting to this)to lye everlaftingly in a red hot fcorching fire, deprivedof all poflibility of dying, or being everconfum'd 1 I have fomewhere read of the korridexecution ofaTraitour in this manner: being nakedjhewas chained faft to a chaire ofbrafTe or fomother fuch mettall,that would burne moft furiouflly, being fil'd with fiery heat ; about which wasmadeH 2