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,…

Since that time what furious martyring of the Saints, what horrible murdering of Kings, what bloody massacres, what invincible Armadoes, what hellish powder-plots, what devouring of Martyrs, by that blood-thirsty monster the Spanish Inquisition, what hateful imprisonings, what desperate conspiracies, what a deal of hell hath vexed and rent the face of Europe, and shaken the pillars of this part of the world: as though all the fiends in hell, and whole armies of those damned spirits were broke loose, to cast the Christian world into a new Chaos of darkness, combustion and confusion. And all this hath been the Devils doings of pure spite and malice against the light of the Gospel, and power of the Word. The Pope, Jesuits, and their wicked adherents have been indeed the instruments and executioners of all these bloody miseries, but Satan himself was the principal agent. The cursed influence of all this wrath and rage was inspired from him, and every particular and circumstance of all these mischiefs was first plotted in hell, before they were acted upon earth.

Since that time what furious martyring of the Saints, what horrible murthering of Kings, what bloudy massacres, what invincible Armadoes, what hellish powder-plots, what devouring of Martyrs, by that bloud-thirsty monster the Spanish Inquisition, what hatefull imprisonings, what desperate conspiracies, what a deale of hell hath vext and rent the face of Europe, and shaken the pillars of this part of the world: as though all the fiends in hell, and whole armies of those damned spirits were broke loose, to cast the Christian world into a new Chaos of darknesse, combustion and confusion. And all this hath beene the Devils doings of pure spite and malice against the light of the Gospell, and power of the Word. The Pope, Iesuites, and their wicked adherents have beene indeed the instruments and executioners of all these bloudy miseries, but Satan himselfe was the principall agent. The cursed influence of all this wrath and rage was inspir'd from him, and every particular and circumstance of all these mischiefes was first plotted in hell, before they were acted upon earth.

2. In our own kingdom also his spite and malice against the light of the Gospel hath been notorious and transcendent since the Word of