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

?4o A SERMON.tffi^'^otleslJInbe^ Nay, afTuredly fuch bloodyftubbornnes and felfe-murthering cruelty will bepaid homeatlaft, by the fevere revenger of fuchcurled defperatneflfe. He will judge fuch' a manafcer the manner of them that flied their ownebloudjand give him the bloud of wrath and ofjealoufie.Lorditisprodigiouflyftrange and lamentablyfearefull, that fo noble and excellent a creature asman, prince ofall other earthly creatures, by thepriviledgeofreafonandenlightned with the gloriousbeame ofunderftanding, nature fhould be fofurioufly madded with its owne malice, and bewitchedlyblindfolded by the Prince which rulesin the Aire ; as, for the momentany enjoyment offome few glorious mifcries^bitter-fweet pleafures,heart-vexing riches, or fome other worldly vanityat the beft,dcfperatly and wilfully to abandon andcaft himfelfe from the unconceivable pleafures ofits joy full place where Go D dwels^inro an infiniteworld of everlaflingwofulncfTe. For let a carnallman confider in a word his prodigious madneffeinthis point.fThata dejpe-He might not onely in this vale of teares bee'^ileshhnfei/effoffcd with a peacefuU hearr,which is an incomparableprecioufneffefurpalling all created underftandings:For I dare fay this, I know it to be true:One little glimpfeofHeaven {bed fometimes intothe heart of a fandificd man, by the faving illuminationofthe comforting Spirit, whereby he feesandfeelcs, thatindefpightoftherage ofDivels,and malice ofmen $ lecfinnc and death, the graveand