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

I7SA SERMON.penny for any fuch holy purpofe.Such great menasthcfe will by no meanes put their ncckes, theirpower, and their purfcs to any fuch blefTed workeofthe Lord: though it be for the ere(5^ing oftheKingdomeofJ esvsChrist amongftthem;for the illumination and refrefliing of a darke andbarren place with the light ofthe GofpelI,and watersof life, where both their ownc foules, andmany more about them are ftarving and bleedingto cternall death for want of heavenly Food andminifteri.all helpe. Nay, too many ofthem detainingthe Churches Patrimony, will neither re-/lore it to the proper native ufe and end : nor(which is very lamentable) parr with a little portionofa large revencw in that kinde towards a competency.Before you receive encouragement togo on in this courfe with comfort, I pray you procureus (from your partakers,ifthere be any fuch)Anfwcrs Co thofe many learned Treatifes extantupon this argument, and(for any thing I know) utterlyunanfwered : cfpecially, M^ BepyiardsyD. Sclatersy and D* Fields. I know well fomcexcellent fpirits of late meerely out of the graciousfreenelTef oftheir truely noble difpofidons, totheir great honour, and adorning profcflfion, havegiven backeto the Church for ever ( I meane nothingabout buying in Impropriations, oneof themoft glorious workesin that kinde(for any thing Iknow ) that ever was undertaken in this Kingdome)divcrfc Church-livings, fomean hundredpound fer amnm, fome fix or fevcn fcore, fomethrecfcore,fomc morcj fomany as anaounc to thevalue