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

at theFunerattof M.Bolton.our departure: but what can wc a Hedge for our felvcswhen we have had the experience ofall ages^ Go intoany part of the world, and aske them in the Prophetswoxds,yourfathers whtre are they ? and doe theylive fir ever ? Even this place and this meeting doepreach unto us our mortality.Where are thofe Epicuresin f/^jf, which promifc to themfelves continuancein their dcfperate wales. To morrow (hall Se as thifdaj andmuch more Aboundant^ nay and which is moreabominable, doetake occaiionby the iliortnefTeofiheii lives to eate and drinke^hecaufeto morrow they m»fi*^ ^•*'^'Efay ?$.ii.die : Come on therfire{hy they )/^/ mfll our[elves with Efay.««. i j.ce^Uwine^ andointmentSi andla no Rower ofthefbrin? „,.,-. ^tafe by U6ythey be withered,let m crowncourjelves with rofe-bms beforelet none ofusgo withoutfart ofour jollttyjetm leave to\ie,iS cfour joyfulInefe in every piace,forthis is our portion.Thefe finners are likely to fee thedaies when they fhall wifli themfelves toads, ferpentsorany loathfome creatures,rather f hen men andwomen,and yet as defirous as they fliall be of that exchangeoftheir eftate they fhall not have it, but fliallremaine wofull men and women for ever.This Do(5lrine ferveth likewife for the reproofe of 2thofe who negleding principally to depend on the '^vanUyttde,'"""'"''^immortall Go D,do fmfully relieon others which arc £;'^mortall like themfelves s thus the Subjed: relieth on.the Soveraigne, the fer vant on his Lord and Mafter,the wife relieth on her husband, and the children ontheir parents, and all this is done contrary to our duty^ Trufl not in Princes nor in thefons ofman, and why PfaLi 16.1.fo < There is no helpe in them : their breath goeth forthand they returne to their earth. Truly they arc like therunning waters, our dove, i. e. our faith can find noB 2reft