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,…

But all this while though he was ^*very² learned, yet he was not good, he was a very mean scholar in the school of CHRIST, he drew no religious breath from the soil he came, and his master like an ill seedsman sowed the tares of Popery in most of his scholars: this manner of education made him more apt to tread in any path than that ⟨image 14⟩which was holy; he loved Stage-plays, cards and dice, he was a horrible swearer and sabbath-breaker, and boon-companion, and was ever glad (as I have heard him say) of Christmas-holy days, and marvellous melancholy when they were ended, he loved not goodness nor good men, and of all sorts of people could not abide their company that were of a strict and holy conversation, such he would fetch within the compass of Puritans, thinking that by that lawless name he had deprived them ipso facto both of learning and good religion. Such a general scorn hath this degenerate age put upon the ways of GOD, that the name of Puritan which is truly and properly the name of the ³proud heresy of Novatus, or else of the ^bvile sect of the Anabaptists, is for want of seeking redress by our Ecclesiastical Laws▪ become the honourable nickname of the best and holiest men This wretched humour Mr. Bolton further discovered at Cambridge, for being there at a Commencement, and merely carried with the fame of Mr. Perkins, went to hear him preach, whose ⟨image 14⟩plain but very sound and substantial preaching meeting at once in him with a curious palate and unsanctified heart; quite turned his stomach against that good man that he thought him (to speak in his own phrase) a barren empty fellow, and a passing mean scholar. I have heard many of late (much of Mr. Bolton's temper in goodness at that time, but inferior in learning) speak the like of Mr. Perkins; but the eminent learning of that man (famous ^c