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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,…

Name: Mr. Bolton's last and learned work of the four last things death, judgement, hell,…
Author: Robert Bolton

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.

Robert Bolton 1572–1631London: printed by George Miller, 1632

[56], 264, p. : port. · 73k words · STC 3242 · ESTC S106786

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Mr. BOLTONS FOUR LAST THINGS: DEATH, JUDGEMENT, HELL, HEAVEN. › ISA. XXVI. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah… › Concerning the joys of HEAVEN,Mr. BOLTONS FOVRE LAST THINGS: DEATH, IVDGEMENT, HELL, HEAVEN. › ISA. XXVI. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Iudah… › Concerning the joyes of HEAVEN,

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And that shall be extraordinarily and supernaturally enlarged and irradiated with the highest illuminations, largest comprehensions, and utmost extent of all possible comfortable knowledge, of which such a creature is capable.

And that shalbe extraordinarily and supernaturally enlarged and irradiated with the highest illuminations, largest comprehensions, and utmost extent of all possible comfortable knowledge, of which such a creature is capable.

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1. Humane knowledge of Arts, Nature, created things, is delicious and much desired: Witness,

1. Humane knowledge of Arts, Nature, created things, is delicious and much desired: Witnesse,

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1. The wisest Heathens, and best Philosophers, who were so ravished but even with a dim glimpse of this knowledge, that in comparison thereof they have contemned all the riches, pleasures, and preferments of the world. ⟨p. 142⟩2. That wise saying: A learned man doth as far excel an illiterate, as a reasonable creature a brute. 3. The extraordinarily exulting and triumphant cry of the famous Mathematician, hitting after long and laborious disquisition upon some abstruse excellency of his Art: ^*I have found it, I have found it. 4. That passage in an Epistle of Aeneas Silvius to Sigism. D. of Austria: ^*If the face of humane learning could be seen, it is fairer and more beautiful than the Morning and Evening Star. 5. For the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning (saith

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