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

A fife Sermon,4^out this fight eoufncflTe, affuredly whatfocvcr fairepretexts and reprcfentations to the contrary,maydadeand deceive the worlds eye, yet all is rottenat the hcart-roote. And in the executions of theirthings fmoorhlyplaces, though they may carryand palliate with much art and policy, yet queftionkflc,in cafe of ft rong temptation, greatadvantage,rifing, and enriching themfclves, gratificationof fome great one,hazard oftemporal happines,(^cxhty will be exorbitant and yeelding,and at thebeft, but fofmall. The cry of that happy foule,which leanes, and hath taken up his tverlaftingrefting place,upon the rocke ofeternity ,is conftant,and ftill the fame in all cafes and caufes. Let right yt ^atjaftUia,bedone,and a good confcience difcharged, and ruote^iium.then come what come will. Let me not onelyloofe my place and the favour ofthe times, but leteven the heavens fall, and they will, all is one tome 5 by the mercy ofG o d 1 (hall ftand uprightunder the mines, and re|oyce in the teftimony of agood confciience, amidft the confufions both ofheaven and earth. But to fpeake in Scripture phrafc(for the other was the fpeech, even of an honeftHeathen.) Ever, when {landing on the better fide,and keeping a good confcience, threatneth dangerand difgrace^he growes into HeHers happy refolution:well, whatfocvcrcomesof me, I will takeGods part, and ifI perifh, I perifh.But not to pc-and foto perifh,isrifli fo,is to perifh everlaftingly :to be eternally faved.But now on the other fide, he which hath notmade his peace with Go D^nor hath any part uponGgood