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

252 A SERMON.He begins firft (if he be of power and place) togrind thefaces ofthe poorc;then to pluck off theirskins, then totcarc their flefh, then to breake theirbones,and chop them in peeces as flefti for the por,and at lafl: even to eac the flefli ofG o d s people.That is; firft to weary them out with peity wrongsand extraordinary occafions, to vexe them withnew conditions, and unconfcionable encroachments: and at Lift to wring their penfive foulesfrom their wafted and hunger-ftarv'd bodics^with• extremity of opprcflion, and cruelty of covetoufnefTe.covemfnejjfe»ever mtm. j^^p.And that which is a juft curfe upon the covetousj^^ jg ^y^^ infinitely more tormented with thewant ofthat which he doth immoderately and unnecefrarilyde{xre,thencontented and comfortedwiththeenjoymcntofthofe things he doth prefcntlypofTefTe.Ambition and The ambitious man,ifhe be difgrac'd and over-Z^J^arl^f^'top'd by any grand oppofite and counterfcjdioniff,or derided, and revil'd with bafcrand inferiourcontempt, or negleded by omifljon of fome dueobfcrvanceand ceremony of ftate: he (Ifay>)ismore grieWd,if he want grace/or fome fuch littledefault in the attributions ofhis place,and want ofcomplementall refpedt in that meafure,and offuchmenashedefires,thenhehath glory and pompe^in his higheft place.This is cleare inffama/f^thou^hhe was compafled and crown'd with fuch undefervedandextraordinary precedencyand pompe>yet this one Jitle thingihecstufcMor^ecai would notbow the knee and do reverenccto him at theKingsgate.