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,…

I come in a second place to make the point appear yet further by reasons. And first, such as are peculiar to the several sorts of greatness▪ all wch (once for all) I understand such secundum mundum, secundum bominem, secundum carnem, according to the world, according to man, according to the flesh.

I come in a second place to make the point appeare yet further by reasons. And first, such as are peculiar to the severall sorts of greatnesse▪ all wch (once for all) I understand such secundum mundum, secundum bominem, secundum carnem, according to the world, according to man, according to the flesh.

And first for excellency of learning understood still after the flesh, implied also by the Apostle in this place: as appears by the former words: Where is the Scribe? Where is the Disputer of this world? Where are the learned Rabbins of the Jews? Where are the profound Philosophers of the Gentiles? Let us take notice that learning of it self is a very lovely and illustrious thing, which made Aeneas Silvius in his Epistle to Sigismund Duke of Austria, say, If the face even of humane learning could be seen, it is fairer and more beautiful than the morning or the evening-star. But notwithstanding bent the wrong way, and spent upon private and pernicious ends, it becomes the fowlest fiend the Devil hath upon earth, and his¹ mightiest agent to do a world of mischief. No corruption is worse than of that which is best ⟨p. 180⟩mis-employed: it is of woeful consequence, proportionable to its native worth. And the longer and more prosperously it is employed as an instrument of all, and in the service of Satan ever the more pestilently, which is for my purpose, doth it harden and enrage the heart against all means of grace, the power of godliness, and possibility of conversion.