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

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4t <strong>the</strong> FUfterafffi/M', Bolton,^pdcfrrc,that was codic; <strong>and</strong> a rcafen implied <strong>of</strong> his defire,for <strong>the</strong>n he fliould be with Christ: hearkenwith <strong>the</strong> like Chrfftian attention fo Sain: PauU judgementor cenfure<strong>of</strong> that cftate <strong>of</strong> being withCn r i stjthis is faith he far <strong>the</strong> better, or (as fome expound <strong>the</strong>words) which is beft <strong>of</strong> all : which occafions a Que- Ogf/f^ftion,Whe<strong>the</strong>risit better to be with Christ in his Hmulbefihumane nature, <strong>the</strong>n to be with God, wh<strong>of</strong>e beatifi- fo be vitb, 'call vifion is faid to be <strong>the</strong> chiefe objed <strong>of</strong>happi- ^^"^'ncffe 't To which I anfwer, that <strong>the</strong> Ap<strong>of</strong>tle doth not .com.pare <strong>the</strong>fe toge<strong>the</strong>r, I mcane <strong>the</strong> enjoying <strong>of</strong> ^ *God <strong>and</strong> Christ, as though his chiefe happinededid confift ra<strong>the</strong>r in beholding <strong>the</strong> body <strong>of</strong> Ch r i s t<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> God, but his being with Christ,<strong>and</strong> that eftarc in glory is compared to his being inthis prefent world, <strong>and</strong> he raentioneth Ch r i st becaufche in his humane nature had purchafed thisgreat happineflfc for him, which confifteth principallyin <strong>the</strong> vifion <strong>of</strong> divine excellency : our happineflcis chiefely in Go D,but by Ch r i s t his merit :do we ^quh.i^u^:inot thinke that many poorc exiles dripped out <strong>of</strong>

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