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

K^n Apfe Sermon.^31the Religion tooke armes at any time againfitheir King,muchlejfe thcn^ offered they^to hfttcher or blew him upmth ^^m'pO)vJer.Ihavethusfarredifcovcred in the firftUfethemoft peftilent oppofites- and cut-throatcs of Governmentand Kingly Majcfty, at this day in Chriftendome.I ncTW come to a fecond Ufc.If Government be fuch agoodly thing, as hath f^fe 2,been proved before^then all that heare me this day,and every mothers child in this Land, I fay, we areall bound tobleffe God upon our knees, and to putit as afvvcet perfume into our daily facrifice ofthankfgiving, for being bred and brought up underfoblcfted & happy a Gov£rnment,in the Sun-fliineofthe Gofpell, and under the wings of J e h o v a h .What ftaid or reftraincdthe Omnipotent arme ofG o Djfrom creating any of us,and planting us uponearthjin the unhappy daies of Qaeene Mary, whenwe might either have beencdam.ned or burned, orin the bloody times o^Lancafier, and Tork-, or whenthe mills of Popery, and infolent domineering ofthat man offin, enthralled under the moft grievousyokeofmiferable bondage, both the Crowne andconfcienccs of this Kingdome.-or fomc Pagan5Turkifh,or Tyrannicall Government, or neighbouringPopifli Countreyj or (which alfo had not bccnefocomfortable,) in the perfccuted, or Schifmaticallparts ofthe Churchc'it was nothing but Go d s ownmecre mercy,rerpiting and remitting our being up*on earth,to better and more blcfled times & place;It was that and that alone, which ordered and appointedourlot ofliving herein that golden knot ofE stime.