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

26oon whom thepmrfur"'A SERMON.lihood^or good name upon their own confciences^citherby acquitting the guiky, or hurraying the innocent.H§re(had I tiine)I would intimate unto you amyfticall, but tnifchievo'is packing fonecimes inchoice ofjury-men. I have kcn{ I fpeak ofthat whichwas long{ince,and at a Seflfio is)romc ofthe choiceftdrunkards in aCountrie chofen for thac fervice.Nowis it not a pirifall thing that Country bufineffes fhouldbe put into the hands of fuch as labour induftrioufly,and with equall cunning,to plague an honeft man^anddeliver a drunkard.("^y ^q^^ ^i\ ^his while, we thus difcourfe untoJyoUjcarneftly endeavouringjand with a thirfty dcfireto doc you good, and dire(^ you aright, and by a divinerule in the feverall duties proper to your places,we do but plow in the rea,and fovv in the ayreCas theyfay)excepttheimmortalireedoftheWord hath firftmoulded you anew,and ye be brought hj tkfooUfj)-nes cfpreaching out ofthe waxm SunintoGoDs bleffing,andfrom the fools paradifc ofworldly wifdomeinto the holy path offincere profeilours, and thereuponprize and preferre the peace of a good confcicncebefore all the gold in theWeft,and prefermentsinthe world 5 which bleflfcd change from nature tograce, is wrought by fuch ftirrings ofthe foule, andfoot-ftepsofthefpiritasthefe; lend me, I befeechyou, (while J parfe along them)fomthing more thanordinary attention.-for J know they wil fceme ftrangethings to all fuch great ones as are intendedin rnyText, and thofe who live at reft in their pofTeflfions,and have nothing to vex them. The naturall ftoutnesoftheir fpirits will difdaine and fcorne to ftoope tofuch uncouth humiliauons, and this mighty change.