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

A SERMORvalue ofabove feven hundred pounds ycarcly. ButI muft tell you alfo^thcy areonely.fuch as you mif^call Puritan-gentlemen ( for I neither heare norknow of any other that ftirs this way)and how fewfuch are to be found in a Countrey, every ey e fpiriruallyillightened may clearely fee, and heartilybewail e. ForJ mcane none but fuch as are(in truefearch and cenfure)Kings beftfubjeds.Gods bed fcrvants^^nd theI come in a fecond place to make the Point appeareyet further by reafons. And firft,fuch as arepeculiar to the feverall forts ofgreatncfTeMlI which(once for all)I undeiftand Cuchfecuua'um mundum,fecundum hominemjecundum e^nsm,accorMng to thervorldj^ccordingtewaniaccordingtotheflefli.And firft for excellency oflearning underftoodftill afta* the flcfli, implied alfo by the Apoflle ini7s>i r rj^^^^ii^^^^^this place : as appeares by the former words :where is the S crikly? Where is the Di/puter ofthismrld? Where are the learned Rabbins of theJewe^^ Where are the profound Philofophersof the Gentiles 1 Let us takenoticc that learningof it felfe is ,a very lovely and illuftrious thing,which made Mnea4Silvim in his Epiftle to St^if7?iUfjdDvi\iCof^uBri4y(zy,lftheface even ofhttmanelearning couldbe feene^it isfairer and more heatttifuII then the UHorning or the Evening-fiarre.Butnotwithftanding bent the wrong way, and fpentupon private and pernicious ends, it becomes thefowleft fiend the DivcU hath upon earth, and hismightieftagcnt todoeaworldofmifchicfe. No Dcgencradocorruption is worfc tbafi of that which is beftN ^p^^^'fA'"**2mif-