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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.
If carnal wretches be so desperate, as wilfully to spill the blood of their own souls: let us set light by the life of our bodies, if the cruelty of the times call for it, for the honour of the Saviour of our souls.
If carnall wretches be so desperate, as wilfully to spill the bloud of their owne soules: let us set light by the life of our bodies, if the cruelty of the times call for it, for the honour of the Saviour of our soules.
Let me give one instance of dangerous snares, wherein such as these are ordinarily entangled and holden fast, from which inferiors are for the most part free. Let us come into a town or country▪village, and we shall find all the rest not so exorbitant but enter into the Nobleman's, Gentleman's, or Knights house, (if there be any there) there shall we find a nest of new-fangled fashionists; naked breasts, and naked arms, like bedlams, saith that excellent and learned Gentleman, in his Oil of Scorpions. Bushes of vanity in the one1 sex, which they will not part with (said Marbury) until the Devil put a candle into the bush: and cut hair in the other, stirs against the Ordinance of GOD, and nature in both: and many other such deformed loathsome, and prodigious fashions, censured by that stinging and flaming place against fashion-mongers, Zeph. 1. 8. And these are the more pernicious, because it were many times more easy for us of the Ministry. I speak out of some experience: to undertake by GODS blessing (caeteris paribus, as they say) the driving of an impure wretched drunkard, from his beastly and swinish sin, which would be a very hard task, ⟨p. 244⟩than to draw such as delight in, and dote upon these miserable fooleries, from the abhorred vanity of strange fashions: nay, and though sometimes they would be thought to look towards religion.