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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.
The eternal City (saith *Austin) is incomparably bright and beautiful; where there is victory, verity, dignity, sanctity, life, eternity.
The eternall City (saith *Austin) is incomparably bright and beautifull; where there is victory, verity, dignity, sanctity, life, eternity.
- *Incomparabilitèr clara est civitas eterna: ubi victoria, ubi veritas, ubi dignitas, ubi sanctitas, ubi vita, ubi aeternitas. De vitâ aeternd. Oh how brave, how beautiful, how glorious, how glittering, how gorgeous, how admirable a City is this! For, if the gates be of pearl, and the streets of g•ld; then what are the inner rooms? What are the dining chambers? And what are the lodging rooms? O how unspeakable is the glory of this city; that Kings shall throw down their Crowns and Sceptres before it, counting all their pomp and glory but as dust in respect of it? And the magnificence and pomp of all the Potentates of the earth shall here be laid down. And albeit none of the Kings and Nobles of the Gentiles might be admitted into the old Jerusalem, yet all the Gentiles that believe shall be admitted into this new Jerusalem, and made free Denizens thereof for ever. Dent upon the Rev. I might tell you here of many other probable singularities about this celestial palace, and that from the hand of some godly and learned Divines: To wit, [That this third Heaven is not penetrable by any creature; whereas the other two are passable by the grossest Bodies; so that it is said to open to the very Angels. Joh. 1. 51. Who, though they be able to penetrate all things under it, yet are they no more able to enter that Body▪ than they are to pass into one anothers natures▪ Hence it comes to pass, that the third Heaven gives way to Angels, souls and bodies of men to enter in by miracle: GOD making way by His power, where nature yields no passage. For, it is without pores, and cannot possibly extend or contract it self into a large or straiter compass. That, Tertium hoc & summum coelum, in medio non est corpus solidum: sed inest aura aliquis coelestis quae supplet defectum aeris corporibus glorificatis: In qua etsi pori non sunt, in nobis tamen porierunt, in quibus erit haec natura coelestior; qu etiam aeris vicem supplebit ad sermonem. In coelo enim usuri sumus Hebrâ linguâ: 1. Nam natura ibi redibit, quae primitùs hanc linguam tenuit. 2. Confusio linguarum maledictior fuit. And this aura coelestis (say they) shall maintain life eternally; and be answerable to our constitution, even as this atre is, &c.] But as I would my self by no means confidently entertain, so will I never ebtrude upon others any thing in this or any other divine point; but that only which i grounded (either directly and immediately, or by good and sound consequence) upon GODs sure Word.