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

A SERMON. 191thing In all Its confultations concludes everthingspleafingtoflefhandbloud, and ends atllaftwith extremcft folly and utter contufion. WitnefTet^chttophd jwho was wife enough to fet hishoufein order, and yet wanted wit to refcue his©wnc life out of his ownc hands: he was curious toprovide for his family after his death, and had nocare at all to preferve himfelfefrom erernall death:was not this a madneffe even to m:r^.cle,zs DivinesAmentia ufqjfpeake-f Hee got him home to his houfe, purhis ^^^ F°^'S "houflioldin order, and hanged himfelfej ^nd is tSamaz-^j.hanged up in chaines as a dreadful 1 fpeitacleto allpofterity,forallworldly-wifemento take wam^ingbytothe worlds end.^ ,The Spirit 01 G o d intimates unto iis the pe- ^ounielflilencie of its properties, lames ^. 15, It is,Firft, Earthly, Secondly, Senfuall. Thirdly, Dl-'uellifb,Dfveliijl) : for, it imitateth the Divell in plottingand contriving mifchicfeandruine againlttheglory of iG o D s Majefly, and Miniftry of hisWord. It tafts of his helhfli wilinelTe in clofeconveyances and fccret infidiations,for the undermining,ftipplanting, and confounding of the paffageoftheGofpell,andplantation of grace in thehearts ofmen. Satan (you know) is ever fierceand furious, when hefpiesbuttheleaftglimpfeofGods truth, or fparke ofgracetopeepe out andbreake forth at aoy time, or in any place. Whenthe glorious fun-ftiineofthe Gofpell did in thcfelatrer times of the world (according to thePro-TphcdcinthcMe^eUtms) arifcouc of thed^rkc-fomc-^IFcrWy w'tfei