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

2g^n, Apft Sermon*thcinnocency ofChriftian Religion, fiich furiousAfTafinsand Incendiaries/or murdering ofPrinces,butcheries of peo;:)le, and fisring of States ; fo inraged,evenlikeWoolves in the evening tofwallowus up quick ifthe rime did ferve^ T fay^th^tfuch, info Orthodox a Church and noble a Scatc,(hoiild byallowance, toleration, connivence, or remiffcnelTe,befuffered to receive increafernent and mulciplication,bothin number &infolency,to the great dirhonourof Go D Almighty^The continual! ve^cation ofGods Children and good fubje^s, andthemoftCertaine hazard of the whole Eftate, and thepeaceable fuccelTion of the Kings pofterity.And the moreftrange it is forthefe three reafons.Firft, What conceit do you think out of the congruityofPopifh principles, is it likely they hold ofthis forbearance,and what thankes do they returneto the States undoubtedIy,to think chat it is infatuatedfor their fakes, and that the hands of Juftice aremanacled by G o d s over- ruling providence, thatit cannot be executed fo fully and freely upon fuchalovingjholyjand unbloody generation.Secondly, They daily do their utmoft at home,and abroad ,to crofle King/4;w^/ his Princely Admonitionunto them,in his firft fpeechinthe Parlianient;wherein he admoniflied the Papifts^that theywould not (o farre prcfume upon his lenity,as thereuponto think it lawfuU for them to increafe theirnumber and ftrength in his Kingdome, whereby ifnot in hia time, yet at leaft in time of his Pofterity,they might be in hope to eredtheir religion againe.Thirdly, If the day Hiould come they have folong