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

At theFunerAliof M.Bolton.buds in the ayrc,thc (hips on the rea,& the fwift pofton the land, all thefe doproclaime and preach a Sermonto us ofour mortality, and that this lamp manywaiesmaybe extinguifhcd 5 experience fhewcth, usthat death puts no difFerence,the young do die as welas the old, the ftrong as well as the weakc,the Kingsand Counfclloursofthe earth as well as beggars, the J**''^'H>'^Phyfiriansthemfelvesaswell as their patients, anddeath is haftned by infinite difeafcs, whereunto allthe living arc fubjcd, and thefe are within us, and athoufandaccidcntstofurtherdeath without us, andwhich is the foundation ofall our evils,by our ownfins, whereby we do provoke the Lor d of our livesto anger, and do walk every day over a mine (as itwere ) ofgun-powder, fubjed every moment Co beblowne up by the Lords difpleafure : and S*Cyfrian cyprianjeexcellently flieweth the declining ftate ofthe world,how the ftrengthofthe husband-man in the field, ofthe marriner on the fca,and the fouldier in the camp isweakenedjf4»^j videmusmpueris: and it is well for usthat our lives are fliortned, and that our daies do not '^/i?«ordinarily attaine to the tenth part ofthofe thatlivedbefore the floud, and th.at both in regard ofthe wickcd,vandthe godly. Firft touching the wicked^ to reprefletheir outrage and impudcncie in finning 5 thisVery thought that they may die cre-long, and cannotlive very long^in rcafon fhould abate their violent andexorbitant courfes, ifthey aretranfcendently wickednow when death is at,hand,what l^imrdds would theybe ifthey had inthe ordinary courfe erf" nature, eightor nine hundred yeares before them to live in i Iftheir damipipn^npwjball be mpft fjrqajd&lU howBmuch'"*"'*^Eenepsofjhort