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

222 ASERMON.,The hard hear-burden of finne, which preft downc a gloriousAngell of light and all his followers from the topof Heaven into that loweft pit, with the fullweight ofthe unquenchable and everlafting wrathofG o D 3 with all the heavy chaines ofthat infernaillake 5 and with that which ( meethinkes ) isfarrc worfe and more cutting than many hels, thanten thoufand damnations, even with defpaire ofeverhaving eafe, end or remedy ofchofe moft bitter,everlafting, intoUerable hellifh torments : Ifay,though a damned foulebe thus laden,and thusheavily preft downe with all this curfed weight,and hainoufnefTe ofHell ;yet he is ftill as hard as aftone.So certain it is,that no curfe,or created pow- .cr,nor the fofteft eloquence or fevereft courfe,not the weight ofthe whole world or the heavinesof hell; if all were preft and laid upon the heart ofa man; could poflibly breake that ftubbornefTe, ortame that rebellion. This is onely the workeofthebleffed Spirit with the hammer of theWord.Thls hardncfTe of heart had attained a ftrangctedaejfe of man height evcn in the worlds infancydnto what a prof-mhujaU,Jigious rocke is that growne now then by lengthby invention ofnew finnes,of time,info many ages,fith every generation finceand addition of hainoufnefTeunto the old, have every one addedthereunto a feverall iron finew, and a further degreeofflintincflfe.iT^t. What a heart was got into Cdins brcaft,whowasfirftcut out of the ftony rocke of corrupcman-kind 5 remorfcof itcdding the guiltile/Tc