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

228 A SERMON.^tionpor,.^loomcs^ it begets ambition, which is an unfatiablethlrft after glory5and a gluttonous exceilive defircafter greatnefle.Qf ^jj other vicious paflions which doe pofTeffethe heart of man, it is the moft powerfull and un-^ conquerable. Asitisfuperlativeandtranfccndentin itobje(5land afpirationsjand feated in the highefhandhaughtieft fpiritSjfoisitrefolute and defperatein it undertakings, furious and head- flronginits purfuits and profecutions.Ambition ven- It IS ventrous to remoove any let, and hardnedtrous.£q J ^jj meanes 3 many times without remorfe orteares, it takes out ofthe way by fome cruell contrivance,their deareft friends,and tramples rheneereftblood,as we fee ordinarily in the TurkifliEmperors,to get up into an high place^and grafp anImperiallCrowne,Ambition ma' It is vi(5borious ovcr all other affedions^and^mm^" ^^^' mafters even the fenfuality of luftfull pleafures, aswee may fee in many great men of the Heathens,{Alexander, Scipo, Pom^ey^ and many otherswho being tempted with the exqi'jifitncfleand varietiesofchoifeft beauties^yct forbare that villany,not for confcience fake , or for feare of G o d,whom they knew not; but leaft thereby theyfliould flop the current of their vi(5lorious atchievements^andobfcure the glory oftheir remarkablevalour.>j«ji;.,"« n.»j.m upon life, temporall lircs yea, and eternall lire too. HowIt preferres a hi^h roome in the world before amany great mens hearts have burft, at the difpleafedand frowning countenance of a King ^ Howmany