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

A SERMON 209temporary fatisfaifiion of its carnall, covetous, ocambitious humour, with filthy vexing, tranfitorypclfe,withvaniry5dung, nothing, run wilfully andheadlong uponeafelelle, endlefTe, and remedilefletormenrs in the world to come ^ And that which 4isthe juft curfc and plague of worldly wifedome,(thisfpirituallmadnelTe commonly called) it isconfident that it doth wifely, and takes the beftway, and thereupon becomes incorrigible andobftinate : For there is more hope ofafoole^ then ofhimthatisrvifeinhis o^vne conceift, Prov* 26. 22.hndijTh&ttghthou jhoitldefl ifray afookin a mi>rter,yetwill not hisfooliflmejfe departfrom him\ Prov, 27.22*How fearefullthen is his cafe, that to his worldlywifdomejoynes confidence in his waies ^ But theday will come that hee'l fee and bewailerhe vanityof his wifdome, and the truth of his folly, and thatwith bitter gticfe and horrible anguiflieven in hellfire,asit is notably fee downe in the book of f^rifSenTmUdome Cap. $.VmlZth,But the Word which heere in Iam;s is rendred ^"x'^'^/l «>Senfihill, isthcfame which is ufed, 1 Corinthians S^l^'vil^^^-nt2. 14, The nattitiill man receiveth mt the things^ o^-fjrn«V/,itthatSo that worldly wifedome is In that fenfe natu-w^'^^U^v'^-^rail: that it can neither rcliili nor receive the ^XiTy%lmthings ofthe Spirit: itc^nno: poflibly conceive reujiwb notand comprehend the immediate meanes and my-fteries of falvation : let a man otherwife be neverCo faire and comely in body, never fo proportionable^perfonable,or goodly tS looke upon, and inthe eye ofothers, yetifhimfelfe wantcyes (thePinftru-^^ritu^ tbiags