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

1^6A SERMON.Mat.2i. 31.owne formes and falfe gloflfes, and fo poffeft withprejudice againft the fpiricuall and heavenly Dod^rineofC H r i s T.'tiiatthe very PuUicavs and Har-lotsgoeimo the Kingdomz efGon before them: Thatiswhentliey goe not.jie ivord And thus it is in all ages of the Church : Thereis a Lea-jre I will fuppofe. Tomi'^'''which many ofthe meaner fort efpecialiy, refort for fpirituallfood, as to the Market for corporal!. Some ofwhich happily wrought upon by the faving influenceof that Miniftery, begins to blefTe Godfor the benefit, and magnifie his mercy for fuchmeanes: but fome By-ftanders, like peftilent oppofitesinterpofe;yea but which of the great menofthe Countrey come to it, when do you fee anyof the Nobles, Knights, or Gentlemen there iNo, alas ! They are afraid of hearing of theirfinncs, being made Melancholicke, and to be tormentedbefore their time:and therefore they moftwretchedly ntglecifo great fdvatiort, forfake theirowne mercies, and judge themfclves unworthyofeverlaftinglife. Bosvling-greenes^ gaming-houfes,horfe-races, hunting-matches : Their curs,and their Kites : their cock pits, and their covetoufncfTe,01' fomething doe too often eat up andlate.devoure that blefTedfat, and marrow oftime, thofcgolden, and goodly opportunities, which Godin great mercy affords them in the Miniftery, tomake thcii pe> ce with him before they goe intoRepmanc, ^^? too P^^' /"^ ^'^ ^^^^"^ '^^ O"^. ^ourcJ^^'-^'wncrcot-, to ncarc l^'but one Sermon after the irrecovcrublcday of vifitation is pail and expired, theywould