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

Apfe Sermon, 41Befides,thcRomi(h Locufts falling foule uponGovernment, upon all Impcriall, Royall, andPrincely power; bydebafing the originall of it,by difrobing it of that native reverence, due attributionsand obligations of State, which divineordination,and pureft times appropriated unto it; byteaching,aaing,and approving the bloody killingofcrowned Potentates, as appeares before. Thereis another monftrous engine of Popifli impofture,hammerdinthc headsof thofe hellifli firebrands,which if it were generally entertained, were ablein (hoTt time, to cut in pieces and dififolve thefinewes,and cement ofall humane fociety,! meaneEquivocation, and mentall refervation. Manycunning ihifts and cvafions have dicy coined fromtime to time, to ccufen the State, and delude theMagiftrate, in their oaths and anfwers before ourjuft Tribunals. They have vainely laboured todawbe over and ftill their confciences againft theirlies and perjuries,fometimes, firft, by the fuppofedbenefit ofpopifli difpcnfation. 1, Sometimes by awicked conceit of our Magiftrates incompetency,3 .Or pretended unauthenticallnclTe ofour Bibles inEnglifli, upon which they fwcare. Fourthly,butatthis day, they reft moftupon this laft Jefuiticallftratagem, which was wont to be confined toCouns of Juftice and more publikc cafes; butnow the Popifli Cafuifts,by their Conclufions, beo\nto convey this damnable Dodrine, and accurftdpoyfonof mentall refervation, into the com-and con-mon paflages of ordinary negotiations,vcrfation *mongft men.Now