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

compared wiih the fttong corruptions ofthe rimes*yet notwithftanding it is a true principle in godlypolicy 5 that he which ambitioufly feckes a place,even info doing, makes himfelfe moft unworthyof it.An excellent Interpretour ofujhuah, intimatingthatG o J) s extraordinary eameftnefTe^and iterationof encouragements to lojhuah^ implyed his lothne(re,andbackwardnefcto be advanced into Mefesroome,though he was a man ofinvincible fpiritjandSincomparable wifdome,lets fall upon confideration^-ailmr thereof this conclufion ; That mm are lejfe mrthy ofeorum fmt in- advancement, then thefe tvhc hunt mofi eagerly after n^dignijfmt,^fj^^ ^fj^j^^ ^y aifibittoujlyfeeke an office ^or honpttr, doeipfofadbo,^^ that very AEidtfcover their extreme unwcrthineffe^and that of all other men^ they defcrve itmt. Nay, the very light offounder rcafonled Tamerlanelo a right conceit herein, as I told you before.And Momay tells Henery i he fourth of France^that (uch have laid their plot already,and moft certainelyfeekethe place, for their owne profir,not forthepublick good. Excellently then doth our Law,exclude fuch fellowes, not onely from that office,they fo greedily gape after, but alfo from all other.It is great pitcy, fo goodly a body fhould want afoule.And it muft needs be io, by that obfervationfrom men of beft confcience, greateft worth, anddeepeft underflanding, and noblcft -parts, if trulyfandified unto them are moft unambitious, lothto rife, and fcarefull ever to enter upon, and undertakeany publickc charge. A piodeft undervaluing