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

ipn .ASERMON.firftjthey fo delight in domineering, and dote upontheir high roome as their deareft Idoll : Andwithall they know full well, that as in narurall privationthere is no returnc to habit, fo it is veryrarely feene in the privation politique,and point ofprefermentithat they would even rather die, thanDC dejeded.Lay now thefct\vo points together: and countall the fnavcs from which poorer and private menbyreafonoftheir meaner condition arc happilyexempted: And no marvell though not many migh.^jjcither in heapcs ofwealth, or height ofplacesbe converted jor goto heaven.wofUiy wife. In the fourth place: whataftrong hold for thedtmdangeroM powers ofhcll, and mighty barre to keepe outmay appeare by ta-grace, worldly wifedorae is ;king notice ofthe nature of it, and fo of its notoriouflypeftilent properties. This wifdome of theflcfbfpringing from the principles of carnall reafon,and precepts ofhumane policy, and receivingcontinuall influence and inftigation from thatold wily ferpent to go on ftill in his and the worldswayes,doth witha proud difdainfullnelTe and imperiouscontempt fcornc the great myfteries ofgodlincfTc, fooliflincffe of preaching, fimplicityofthe Saints, and fociety of the brother-hood:croffcth diredly and contradid:s the counfell andcommands ofG o d s spirit, in all motions togood, and matters offalvation: accounts in goodcarnefthoIineflTc hypocrifie,fan(5^ification fingularity,profcflion and praiftice of finccrity precifendTcjthegreat things of G o d s Law as a ftrangething: