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

'220 A SERMON.place is meant, not ( as fome take it )but oFtheir forrowes.of their fins,But all the blowes and preffureswere fo farre from fofcning their hearts, thatthey hardened and emmarbled them more andmore.whenforeiMihihc Pvophei)J])OuUje hefinitetenanj moye^feryefallawaj more and morz^?chnfissermont What Created power can poffibly have morelittle toTou^htpower upon the foules ofmen, than the facred Scr-«,i the imes,^^^^ ofthe Son ofG o D , whojpake as never mmJpake And yet .?i hefe deare intreatics and meltinginvitations which fvvcerly & tenderly flow'd fromthat heart,which was refolved to fpil that warmcft& inmoft bloud for their fakcs,moved thofefliffenecked]ewes ncvct ^jov.lerufalemjlentfdlew, faithhcjtvhkl kiHesftk Prophets,^c.Mat,2^,'^'j, Ifaiahthat noble Prophet, whofe matchleffe eloquencefurpaflfeththe capacity ofthe largeft created underflanding;and to which the powcrfull eleganciesofprophane writers is pure barbarifme,fhed manyana many a gracious and golden fhower of fofteftand fweeteft eloquence upon a finfull nation andrebellious people,which was fruitlefly and vainlyfpilt as water upon the ground, or loft upon thehardeft flint : many a piercing and powerfull Sermonhad heefpentamongfl: them to the waftingof his ftrength and fpirits 3 which yet was to themas an idle and empty breath,thing,and fcatter'd in the ayre. The Lord (as Hefayes Himfelfe)madc his mouth as a (harpe fword,and Himfelfeasa chofcn fhaft 5 and yet that two-vanifliing into no-Cap.40.4.edged fword was full often blunted upon theirhardeft hearts, and his kccnc arrowcs difchargedby