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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.
3. A great and happy memory.
4. Singular sagacity in searching and diving into the secretest and utmost circumstances (so far as was possible) of the causes that came before him, that he might give the more righteous judgement.
4. Singular sagacity in searching and diving into the secretest and utmost circumstances (so farre as was possible) of the causes that came before him, that he might give the more righteous judgement.
5. A marvellous tenderness, and pitiful exactness in his inquisitions after blood. Holding, on the one side, the life of a man very precious: and yet, on the other side, persuaded of the truth and terror of that place, Numb. 35. 33. For blood, that defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. But yet all these, whatsoever you apprehend, in my conceit had not been much worth, though good in their own nature; neither (to tell you true) should I have so much as named them, had they not been aided, (as it were) and managed with three other most noble and necessary virtues, especially in these times, which actuated them (as it were) and gave them their life and lustre.
5. A marvellous tendernesse, and pitifull exacttnesse in his inquisitions after bloud. Holding, on the one side, the life of a man very precious: and yet, on the other side, perswaded of the truth and terrour of that place, Numb. 35. 33. For bloud, that defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the bloud that is shed therein, but by the bloud of him that shed it. But yet all these, whatsoever you apprehend, in my conceipt had not beene much worth, though good in their owne nature; neither (to tell you true) should I have so much as nam'd them, had they not been aided, (as it were) and managed with three other most noble and necessary vertues, especially in these times, which actuated them (as it were) and gave them their life and lustre.