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Mr. Bolton's last and learned work of the four last things death, judgement, hell,…Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things death, iudgement, hell,…
Mr. Bolton's last and learned work of the four last things death, judgement, hell, and heaven. With an assizes-sermon, and notes on Justice Nicolls his funeral. Together with the life and death of the author. Published by E.B.Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things death, iudgement, hell, and heauen. With an assises-sermon, and notes on Iustice Nicolls his funerall. Together with the life and death of the authour. Published by E.B.
London: printed by George Miller, 1632
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Our gracious GOD in his holy unsearchable wisdom doth reserve and detain from the eye of our understandings a full comprehension of that most glorious state above; to exercise in the mean time our faith, love, obedience, patience, &c. As a father shows sometimes, and represents to the eye of his child, a glimpse and sparkle (as it were) of some rich orient jewel, to make him love, long, pray and cry for a full sight of it, and grasping of it in his own hand: So our heavenly Father in this case. If celestial excellencies, and those surpassing joys, arising principally from the visible apprehension of the purity, glory and ⟨p. 114⟩beauty of GOD, were clearly seen and fully known, even by speculation, it would be no strange thing, or thanksworthy for the most horrible Belial, *to become presently the holiest Saint, the worlds greatest minion, the most mortified man. But in this vale of tears we must live by Faith.
2. Our gracious GOD in his holy unsearchable wisdome doth reserve and detaine from the eye of our understandings a full comprehension of that most glorious state above; to exercise in the meane time our faith, love, obedience, patience, &c. As a father shewes sometimes, and represents to the eye of his child, a glimpse and sparkle (as it were) of some rich orient jewell, to make him love, long, pray and cry for a full sight of it, and grasping of it in his owne hand: So our heavenly Father in this case. If celestiall excellencies, and those surpassing joyes, arising principally from the visible apprehension of the purity, glory and ⟨p. 114⟩beauty of GOD, were clearely seene and fully knowne, even by speculation, it would be no strange thing, or thanksworthy for the most horrible Beliall, *to become presently the holiest Saint, the worlds greatest minion, the most mortified man. But in this vale of teares we must live by Faith.
- *Tan•a est autem pulchtitudo justitie, tanta jucunditas lucis aeter nae, hoc est, incommutabilis veritatis, atque sapientiae, ut etiamsi non liceet ampliùs in ea manere, quàm unius diei moa propter ho solum innumerabiles any hujus vitae pleni deliciss & circumsluntiâ temporalium bonoum rectò, meritóque conteneretur. August. de Lib. Arb. Lib. 3. Cap. ul.