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

Apfe Sermon.reward ofiniquity < Take this away,and welcome,which I have already. To that I may keepe a goodconfcicncc: and thereupon threw at her fecce hisgirdle,the enfigneofhis honour.Thus undoubtedlywill a good confcience trample under foot thehigheft preferment, to preferve its owne integrity.Secondly, the righteous man onely will be thorowly,anduniverfally refolute, for hcknowcsfullwell,and feelcs, that he cannot poflTibly have anyhigher preferment then Jesvs Christ, whomhe already happily polTeflfeth in the armes of hisfaith, nor any greater crolTe then a wounded confcience,and therfore he dares by no meanes eitherhurt the one, or hazard the other. Hence it was thatMofes cafting the eye of his faith upon the recompenfeofreward,refufcd to be a favourite inPharohsCourt, and that lofeph did To invincibly withftandthe impure, and impudent follicitatfons of hiswicked5and wanton Miftreflfe 5 hcclearely forclawwhat horrour was like to feaze upon his heart,by fofinning againft his God. Nowthereafon that therighteous man is fo refolute ; is the fenfe of his reconcilement>o God, and the clearenelle ofhisconfcience : and the caufe that every wicked manis .a coward, and will fo conformeto the current ofthe time, is his ill confcience. The wicked flee, faithSalomon , tvhen nomanfurfueth ^ hut the righteous arehid as a Lyon jPr0,2^, I, The wordinthe originallfignifies a young Lyon, which as a Lyon fearesneither man nor beaft, great nor fmall, he turnethnot away for any ,Fr