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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.
From Lincoln College he removed to1 Brazen-nose: For, by the Founders of that2 House most of the Fellowships therein were ordained for Lancashire and Cheshire men, but coming to that College, having but few friends, he stayed long without a Fellow-ship▪ about which time (that I may not bury in silence the charitable acts of such men ⟨image 13⟩whom their learning and piety have made eminent) it pleased Mr. Dr. Bret, knowing3 his deserts, and perceiving him to languish for want of means, most bountifully to contribute for his relief, and by his and others bounty, with some small stipends he had for his Lectures in that House, he was upheld until he had got a Fellowship, which fell out about the thirtieth year of his age, at which time he commenced Master of Arts; and then by the Exercises he performed in the House and abroad, being Regent-Master he grew into fame, and was still successively chosen to be Reader of the Lectures of Logic, and Moral, and Natural Philosophy, (as by the Statutes of the House they were appointed to be read) which he performed so strictly, and with such exactness, as that he got credit and applause with the best, but some envy with his successors, that by his example were now provoked to a more frequent and painful reading of them, which were seldom and slightly performed before. And such was his esteem in the University for his public disputations, ⟨image 13⟩which he ever performed with such readiness and acuteness of speech and wit, and such profoundness of learning, that when he was a Master of Arts but of small standing, he was chosen by the now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Vice-Chancellor at King JAMES His first coming to that University, to be one of the disputants before the King, and to read in Natural Philosophy in the public Schools. Besides his knowledge in Logic and Philosophy, wherein he excelled, he was also well studied in the Metaphysics and Mathematics, and in all School-Divinity, especially in Thomas Aquinas, which he had read over once or twice, and had exactly noted him throughout, as may appear in his notes.