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

at the Funerdll ^^r.Bolton, 21vell.-butthatthcfouleis immortall myTexcprovcth,bowclfecould it part from the body and be withCh r I s T^unlcffe it was a feperablcfubftance^fith thebody tsnotwith Christ till after the general! rcfurredion^whence is there in natural! confcience thataccLifing power for fin, that feare of wraths but fromthis principle that the foule is immorralknever makeany queftion ofthis^when thou dieft ,thy foule whichis thy better part dicth not, but is taken out ofthy body,as a candleout ofa lanthorneiandimmediatly placedeither in blifle or in torment.Hence may we in the fecond place conclude againftthe i^mihAftills and SocinUnst which though theywent not fo far as the Sadduces ro deny the refurre(5tion,yetdidthefe fantaftiques dreamc that the foulefleepcthtill Doomesday,and i$in a ftateofincenfibilitylike fomc creatures in Winter,/»/e(^4.ti!l they bequickned and revived by the heat of the Sun,fotheyof fou!es,till they be raifcd by the power oftheLo r dat the laft day^but ho^ then could Saint P/tulhe withChrist ^but to fay no more againft thefe filly dreamers,I proceed.In thethird place, that conceit alfo falls to thegroundjwhich prevailed with many oftheantient Fathersand with fomc later writers, that the foules ofthe righteous fee not God till thelaft day,but are keptin ceitaine receptacles in expcdation therof. I feeno profit to the Auditory by naming them 5 the learnedifthey pleafc m ay read many of their names inSixtffs Senenfis, But how then (fay I)could Saint Paxtlbe with Ch R I s T^this opinion is an unworthy conceitcondemned by the Church, as robbing heavenfor2.tit fculej!eepsnot as the bedy,BuUingtr ciiraAnaha I.4 e.io'3.Soules departediMtiediatety fteG9J,SixfM SenenhhibLSM. lib.b.Annot