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

^o4ASERMON.things ofthis life, as though both body and fouleat their difTolution,fliould bee holy and everlaftinglyrcfolved, and turned into earth,duft, or nothing.To give you a taftc of this earthlinefle ofworldly wifcdome, give mee a worldly-wife manand,if^atuungtpro' I . Put him into difcourfe ofthe affaires of the"^^^^^^ andthebufmeffcof his calling, andi^iyuTjhJi youUofinbun^n^ fhall finde him profound and deepe in this argument,abletofpeakewellandtotheporpofe; ificwere a whole day, and that with dexterity andchecrflilnefle :But divert his difcourfe a littlcjandturne him intotalke of matters of Heaven, of thegreat myftcry ofgodlinefle, the fccrecs offandification.cafesof confcience,and fuch like holy conference,and you (hall finde him to bee a very infant,an ideot : it may bee, hee may fay fomcthingofthe generall points of Religion, of matters inconrroverfie, ofthe meaning of fome places inScripture: but cometoconferre of pradical I dWinity,experimentallknowledge, palTages of Chriftianity,and pr3