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

A SERMON. 223lefTe blood of his murthcrcd brother, which wasable to have n^elted an adamant into bloodyteares, mooved hi«i never a whit. Nay,the prcfenceofAlmighty Go d, at which the earth pral.114.7.trembles J the hiUs melt like wax,wh:chturneththc^rockeintowater-pcleSi an^theflintintoafeuntahieofJv^^^(asI>4^'/i^pcakes)yet made his ftony heartNay, yet further, Godsrelent never a whir.mighty voyce immediately from his own mouth,which hreakes the Cedarsiandjhakes the wilderHejfe^ywhich was able with one word even in a momenttoturnethc whole World into nothing, and thefonnes ofmen as though they had never beene;'yet (I fay) this power full and mighty voyce didnotatallamazeor moUifie the unrelenting ftubborneneffeofthis bloudy wretch : but in a ftrangcdogged fa(hion he anfwers God Almighty even^1"^'*%"^'^ 'to His face. For, when Go d mildly and fairelyasked him what was become of his brother ^be\he anfwered, / cannot tell : Nay, further, asthough hee had bid God goe looke, hec faith,K^m Imj brothers keener ? Where take this noteby the way 5 Let not Chriftians think much to re- Gen.4.^.•ceive dogged anfwers and difdainfull fpeechcsfrom prophane men : you fee how doggedly thisfellow anfwers even God Almighty: TheDjfcipleis not above his Majter,nffr thefervant above his Lord:It is enoughfor the Bifcifle to be as the Majter and thefirvant as hisLor d:if they have called the M afterof thehoufe BeelzebubJjow much more them ofhis houfijold j*"iU^r^Mo. 24,25. »t L I JWhataftrangcftonyhcartlodged in the brcaft f/^**^'^^*of