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

BEFORE DEATH. 9fcribcsj /J4. 8 . 2 1 ,2 2 , He paUjret hjmfelfe, andcurfebisKmg andhis God, md looke upward,Jhail loch unto the earth :t^ndheand hchold trouble ofrdddrkmfiejdimnejfe ofAngmjhj and hejhalLbedrwen tedarknefc^..By comfortablcProvijion therefore, I mean treafurcsof a more high, lafting, and noble nature.* irhat ^rovifi-:.T;hc bleflings ofa better life, comforts of godli- Z.^jf'*"^'JQCjffe,. graces of falvation, favour ^nd acceptationwith the higheft Majefty,&c. They arc the richesof heaven onely which we fhould fo hoard up,md will ever hold out in the times oftrouble, andDay'bfthe L o r i) a wri&h.. Amongft which,afound faith, and aclcare confcience are thcmoftpecrclefic and unvaluable jewels 5able by theirnative puifTanec, «and infufed vigour, to pull thevery heart .( as it were ) cut of Hell, and withcormdencc and conqueil: to looke even Deathand the Divell in the face. T here is no darkeneflfcfo defolate, no croffe fo cutting, but the fplendorofthcfc is able to illighten, their fwcetncfTc tomollifie. " i Ml;So that thebleffed counfcll ofC h r 1 s t, iAUt. mu.6. 1 9,t«»^.ip,2o. doth concurre with, and confirmethis fxpounJed,Point: Lay not up firyourfelvestreafures upon earth,when nwth 4ndr»ftdi>th corruft 'jIfreaketherorv and fieaU,and where thecvesBui lay upfor yourfehesSreafures i» hennjen, v>here neither moth nor ruji dothcorrupt, and where theeves do nothreake thororv^ norBy moth and ruji thofc two greedy and greatdevourers ofgay clothes, and ghftering trcafures,two