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

255 A SERMON^^worlds ccnfure,that you may be wife in the myfte^ry ofC H R I s T ,be little & vile in your own eftcem,that you may bee great and gracious in the eyesof Go D. In a wordjfubmit yourfoulesto thefwordofthe Spiiic,and fooliflinelTe of preaching, (as theApoftlecalsit)that you may be wrought upon faviugly^andbrought into the gocdrvay, and that byfuch works and waies as thefe.tltifhZl ]t7oUpon which before I enter, give me leave togood tiu Gods give you an account, why at this time I labour raivordhjndeiytherto worke upony our confciences for your perworiisontem.(-qq^ij converfion,tnan as heretofore to tender untoyou counfcis and confiderations for a moreconfcionablc deportment in your feverall publikeplaces.When I well weighed with my feife,thetruth ofthat principle and pofition in Hooker, Thatit is mfecttliar conceip, but a matter offound ccnfc'qnence^ that all duties are by fo much the better pr formedyby how much the men are more religion, fromAnd finding by ex-rvhofe abilities thefameproceed:perienceof all ages, and moft ofall in thefe worftand woefull times, that men of publike imploymentand in high places,untill there be infufed intotheir foules by the Spirit of grace an internall fupcrnaturallprinciple and divine habit to work by,untill aliquidCvi r i s t ithem by the power ofthe Miniftery,(as they fay) be planted inthey cannotpoflibly bee univerfally thorow, and unfhaken.Some flrong affedion, feare, favour, or fomething, will make them flie out and failc in fomeparticular very fowly. Upon exrraordinarietemptation ihey will fervc the times, and theirm, own