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

honour jwhatfeircfufllApoftafie from^ orthodoxencfTe,and zeale, it may being upon a Cominonwealeinfewyeares./S'lhoJ.If theworld once takein6tice, that money doth Reafon i,the deed; men to make way for preferment, will'feeke more to get money then merit.-Thofe who (hould rife into high roomes in theCommon-wealth, will labour rather to furnilhthemfelves with heavy purfes,then noble parts.Minifterswill ftudy more to become pragmatical!Traders about Benefices, and other Ecclefiafticallpromotions, then compleat Divines, and powerfiiMPreachers sand having learned the Trade, theywould heape living upon living, cry downe preaching,plunge into the world, andfecularcrnpJoyments,gathera hoard,hoping thereby at length tobehoified intofome higher placejef'f. which youknow were a very horrible thing, would marre all-,and undoe us quite.Againe,icis a common faying in this cafe : what ^afmi^we buy by grofTe, we muft fell by retaile. He thatbuyeth,faith Mornaj, is (hrowdly provoked, nay isaftera fort openly difpenfed withall,to fell againc.And what wofull workc and intollerable mifcry,that brings upon a people,you may eafily guefle*^Thefetworeafons I have infinuated unto mee, inthe French Story, where the Author gives this ex- p^^^ ^^^celknt eulogy oiLewis the ninth.The Realmewas corrupted with theunjuftice,and extortion of farmer raignes,by the falc ofOffices,beingmoftcertaine that what we buy ingrofle,wc muft fell by rctaile.He did therefore expreflyM 3pro*