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

^\6 A SERMON.for godly and worthy Schoole-mafters, Tutors,Teachers, CGnforts,Miniftcrs,and reftraint fromthe coriuptions of the times ; and by reafon oftheir perverting and empoyfoning by the forenamedyouthfull aberrations, or rather exorbitancies.They pafle through thofe famous nurcericsof learning and law, without any materiall imprelHonsof Academicall worth, or wifedome ofState. At length returning many times unto richinheritances, and faire eftates, and then refledingwpon their loft time with late repentance, and findingin themfelves neither any^competent fuffici,cncies to ferve their Countrey, or to little pur*pofe, and very poorely ; nor any folid flock ofibund learning for their working fpirits to bee exercis'din,andfeed upon with contentment: theyrefolvedly languifh and diflblvc into idlenefTe andpleafures, as though they were put into theWorld, as Leviathan into the fea,to take theirpaftime therein. And foat laft in refped: eitherof perfonall worth, or the publike good, theybecome but unprofitable burdens of the earthand by their exemplary ill expence of time, ifnot farrc bafer trickes; the very banc of theCountreyes that bred them, and great dishonourtothefamiliesthatownethem. Tor affureyourfelves,to bee well borne, and live like an humanebeaft, is a notorious blemifli to a noble Houfe:and let never any bee fo vaine, as to brag of theirbirthjcxceptthcy be new-borne; this honour ofbirthCfaith Charron)mzy light upon a vicious man,&c.Neither