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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	old_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	31	3	8.3415	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16333	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.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1632 (1632)	STC 3242; ESTC S106786	206,639	329

countenance so finely tempered with gravitie and austerity that hee in a manner commanded respect from others insomuch that many forbare to speake or act unseemely things in his presence that would not have beene so modest in other company Such a Majestie doth grace imprint upon the countenances of holy men that they draw respect from the greatest this made those persecuting Emperours to feare the verie faces of those poore Christians that appeared before them And this caused Constantine the Great so to honour the countenance of Old Paphnutius though disfigur'd by the losse of his eye that he did often for his delight kisse the hollow of that eye which was lost for the cause of CHRIST So true is that of Salomon wisedome causeth the face to shine and the rigour of the countenance to bee changed 3. He was very Zealous for GOD not onely by the power of his Ministery in converting many wherein GOD had wonderfully blessed him but in any publike or private good that tended to the honour of GOD to whose glory he wholly sacrificed himselfe and all his studies which I can the more safely affirme in that I know he hath divers times refused preferment from some of the Nobility and Prelates of this Kingdome and for no other cause in the world but that hee might not be divorced from that countrey where his Ministery was so much embraced and wrought so good effects 4. But zeale is oft of such violent motion that as the antient Philosophers supposed of the primum mobile that if the motion thereof were not finely cooled and allayed by the coelum Christallinum next to it it would set all the Orbes on fire and therefore the zeale of this Reverend man was alwayes tempered with singular Wisedome and discretion for though in all his Sermons he prest mightily upon the conscience of his hearers who many times like babes childishly wrangled at the breasts which should nourish them yet were they never able to resist the authority by which he spake so that for the space of 22 yeares being the whole time that his Lamp of light shined in Northampton Shire his doctrine was never drawne into question either for error or schisme so studious was hee ever of the unity and peace of the Church of ENGLAND which hee dearely loved that none could justly quarrell with him but Papists and other Sectaries as also others that were corrupted with error or evill life 5. Lastly for his Charity hee was ever universally bountifull but especially he exceeded in those publike distresses of Germany France Bohemia c. and to those that stood in true neede for the enabling of himselfe hereunto I have heard him often say he made it evident to me that ever since he was Minister of Broughton he spent every yeare all the revenewes of his Parsonage which was of good valew in the maintenance of his family and acts of hospitality and charity And that the estate wherewith GOD hath blessed him otherwise was meerely raised by that temporall estate hee had at first Let them therefore of his owne coate from henceforth cease to traduce him whom they never did nor dare to imitate I am sure the Towne of Broughton will ever blesse GOD for his charity for when that lamentable fire was among them September 21 Anno Dom. 1626. besides the many pounds he spent out of his owne purse he was a chiefe meanes that by the only supply of the country without any Letters Patents from above their houses which were burnt down unto the ground were all new built and their outward estates liberally sustained and upheld Nay such was his charity that though some of his owne towne had not onely slandered his Ministry but wronged him in his tithes yet he put it up and never called them to question as he might nor ever had any suite with them So that I may for conclusion summe up this in that wittie commendation of Nazianzen on Basill the Great He thundered in his Doctrine and lightned in his conversation This inestimable treasure it pleased GOD to put in an earthen vessell and about the beginning of September last began to breake it by visiting him with a Quartan ague a disease which brought Calvin to his end and by the judgement of the best Physitians by reason of the long grievous paroxysmes whereby it afflicts is ever deemed mortall vnto old men and so it appeared to him for perceiving after two or three sits that it mastered his strength he patiently submitted to indure what by strugling hee could not overcome And called for his Will which he had made long before and perfecting some things in it he caused it to be laid up and afterwards wholly retired into himselfe quitting the world and solacing his soule with the meditation of the joyes of heaven which he had provided to preach to his people for having compiled an elaborate discourse de quatuor Novissimis of the foure last things DEATH IVDGEMENT HELL and HEAVEN an argument that some Iesuites and Friars have bungled in and having finished the three former told them that the next day he would treat of Heaven But the day before being Saturday he was visited with sickenesse and never preached after GOD then preparing him for the fruition of those inexplicable joyes which hee had provided for his people in contemplation His sickenesse though it was long and sharpe yet he bare it with admirable patience for he saw Him that was invisible and his whole delight was to bee with Him often breathing out such speeches as these whiles the violence and frequencie of his fits gave him any intermission Oh when will this good hou●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall I bee dissolved when shall I bee with CHRIST Being told that it was indeed better for him to be dissolved but the Church of GOD could not misse him nor the benefit of his Ministery To which he thus sweetely replyed with David If I shall finde favour in the eyes of the LORD hee will bring mee againe and shew me both it and his habitation but if otherwise loe heere I am let him doe what seemeth good in his eyes Being asked by another whether hee could not bee content to live if GOD would grant him life he thus answered I grant that life is a great blessing of GOD neither will I neglect any meanes that may preserve it and doe heartily desire to submit to GODS will But of the two I infinitely desire to be dissolved and to bee with CHRIST In the time of his sickenesse there came many to visit him but hee admitted none but his intimate friends using a speech of Saint Augustine who desired ten daies before he died none might come to him that he in that time might the better fit himselfe for GOD. But to those that came to him he gave very godly and wise exhortations suting to their callings and conditions for although his