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

Apfe Sermon^6iwit, poUicy, nay religion, confciencc and all, bemade to fcrve and feedc this unfatiable daughter ofthe horfe- leach. Sacriledgc^thatmonftrous incongruityof Lay-mens taking Tithes, andnotprea- ira.59,14..ching to the people, Symony,Bribery, turning ofjudgement away backv/ard,temporifing,betrayingthe truth and good caures,felling of offices, benefices.]uftice,iilence, (harking of under officers^^f.are the filthy vermine, xh?x breed onely in thisBurrow. Excellent then was the counfell of "*"Ber-•,cnard to Bugemw-^ bo rule that the people may prof-*f|f" "f f,1 1 1 1 n(uoditii cre\c(K'.per and grow rich under thee,and not thou wealthyby them.Sm\y, Such as feare God , Here is the life andcrowne5which givcsafpirituall being and graciousbeauty to all the red:, which were it poflible, a mancould pofTefTe in pcrfe(5lion, yet without this, theywould be but as matter without forme,a body withouta foulc,a foule without ] e s v s Ch r i s t .Nay inthis cafe the greater fufficiency would prove, but asa fliarper fword in a madder hand, ever the greaterman without grace the greater beaft, as a good Divineconcludes from that P/49.20. Matt that is inhonour iand underfiandeth not^is like the beafis thdt-pe^riji).heart,If the feareof G o d be not planted in theto feafon and (atidifie the other fcverail endowments,they will all degenerate 5 wifedomeinto craft; power into private revenge; valour intoviolence ;prudence into plotting for his owneends ; courage into foole-hardineffe to uphold afadion; poll icy into putting faire pretences uponfoulc bufincffes ;all his abilities and fufficicncics,I 2 intone