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

at the Funerall (ffM\Bokon, 35thcefe 5 abeggar may fafely pafTe by him^his aimc isto rob the wealthy pafTcngcr: rub thine eyes oitco,frequently ranfacke thy heart,kcep Gods fcarc fi'dhinthy foulc.laco'ifcodd not {]cej>e when he heard of£faft hiscommingngaihfl hiri],zndSamf^finh2Ld littlelirtto deepcm Dalilaes hp when he heard the Phili- G^n 1%delightin the fociety iud^i6.i^,iofiins wcrecommingonhim^of the Saints, good company keepes us waking ;thefc are foveraigne helps to keepe us fpirituaHywatching.Fourthly,often meditate on death, die as it were 4*daily in the difpoficion of thy foule, and preparationalltatiTnoldeath'todeaih; forge: fullnclTe of dcarh makes lifecobe finfull,and death to be terrible as adeftroying Lyon, ^^^^^ ^whereas the fight of favage beafts is not terrible to Mat.z4.48!thofe that converfe with them 5 looke on death as onthe Sun inan opticke glaife, though it be faroflr,yct itfeemes neere at hind, and fo in truth it may be neerrus, being as a pit covered with fnow into which weemay fuddenly fill;that which many carrle in theirrings, carrie thou in thy heart, memento meri'^be liketo thofe that in their life time had their lepulchers intheir gardens, and places of pleafure, and that theymight be mindful! hereof,fome had dead mensskulsbefore their eyes in their mofl delicious banquets 5by fo doing, we fiiould prevent a great deale offin,&it would bcas abicter pill to purge out many noifomehumours, and prove that wt are truly wife, ahvaies ^"^"«P'«5'ready fordeath: itsan excellent thing when deathapproachet'hjtohave nothing elfc to xlo but to die.Fifthly,it is a comfortable figne, ifthou doft-hsar-cmtimautily pray:to Go b for this very end as the Saints of fraya,E 3God•