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

22 .PREPARATIONThe termsprepare7}er'^^hunted, all their life long after thcfe mortallthings of this life, as if their foules had beenctherein immortall; and utterly neglected thofc»f things which areimmoitall, asiftheir felves afterthe wotld had becnsbut nfiorcall c What doc youDeu,i8. d7.thar account, think will betheir thoughts upoi th* very firft approachof the Pore of death , to which in themeane time all winds drive thefiif Fall fad, andheavie thoughts (Lor d thou knowcft) then atleifurg enough to reflect feverely upon their formerfolly, though formerly beaten from them bytheir health and outward happineffe, and will paythemtotheutcermoftforall the pleafing pafTagesoftheir life part. Othentheyfliill lie upon theirlafl: beds like WtId Bids in a net^ full ofthe furjoftheAnd in the morning thej jhJi fay^woMI^ o R D ;God itwere even , and at even thejjl)a.llfaji wouldGod it were mornings for the feare oftheir heartnvherewith thej jhall feare, and for thefight oftheirejesy which theyfjdllfee. Then ( though too late )will they lamentably cry out and complaine:What hath frideprofitedm ? Or what good hath r:chesrvith our vaunting brotight us ? t^Uthof things arefaffed arvay like afiadowj andas a Fofle that hafiethby . ^nd as a [hip thatpafth over the waves ofthewater, andwhen it is gone by , the trace thereofcannotht found : neither the ^a^h-way ofthe keele irt the^fpdves . Or as when a birdhathflowne thorow the air e,there is no token ofher way to befo^md, but the lightAire being beaten with the froke ofher wings andpar^ted with the violent nelfe, and motion ofthem, ispajfedthorow, and therein afterwards noftgnt wherefhc wentis