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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

other virtue desireable in a Magistrate the people in accepting him for their Captaine require of him no other condition but this Onely be strong and of a good courage And the Law of this Land which in this as in most other things is parallell with the Law of God as I could shew would onely haue those Iustices of Peace which are the most valiant men of the County I speake not this to exclude all those requisites of wisdome that ought to be in the holiest and most valiant men I may say in these times as the Apostle said of another virtue There is great need of wisdome The children of God ever haue beene still are and ever may be the wisest men upon earth Let an unwise world think what it list I meane not that wisdome falsly so called whereby a generation of men to save their skinnes handle a good cause like a Venice-glasse loath they are to do any thing that may offend great persons with whom they would comply or expose themselves to any danger or losse The very wisdome which caused Francis Spira to despaire This is rather cunning or craft or to linke them together in the language of the Apostle A cunning craftinesse it is not wisdome True wisdome in the morall Schooles of Philosophy and in the purer Schooles of Divinity is that Queene of virtues which like the soule in the body giveth life and information to all the rest commands all the affections regulates all the actions of mans life and adds an active quickning power to every virtue to every faculty in man directing them to a blessed issue So that a wise man is a valiant man a just man a temperate man an humble man c. But he that is addicted to any vice a servant to any lust proud angry ambitious fearefull covetous c. is in all sound Morality and Divinity a very foole Solus vir bonus saith that great Philosopher revera est prudens Onely a good man is a wise man And King Salomon makes this Philosophy good Divinity Pro. 24. Vers. 4. Wisdome is too high for a foole by whom throughout the Proverbes he meanes a wicked man There is a connexion in the virtues the way to be wise is to be good and the way to be couragious is to be wise A wise man is strong and a man of knowledge saith Salomon increaseth strength From all which it is easie to conclude and hard to be gain-said that a cowardly person let him swell never so bigge let him carie his crest never so high is neither wise nor good The wicked flee when no man pursiseth but the righteous are bold as a Lyon The kindly venting of those two affections of Anger and Love hath made me long in this argument and must now be my excuse That of anger at the present degeneration of mens minds from that noblenesse of spirit that was wont to be in the servants of GOD the other of love to you in encouraging you to as high resolutions as ever though he be taken away that was to you as Moses to Ioshuah your tutor in your youth your singular instructor by his powerfull Ministry in your after-yeares and ever your friend till he went hence and was seen●… no more Amongst those many speeches of his which in his ordinary conference passed from him by weight and not by number I will resume one in your hearing most fitting my purpose Innocency and independency said he make the bravest spirits And it cannot be otherwise for that mans heart which is upright with GOD and depends upon him alone is of invincible courage and becomes like the spirit of Martin Luther who when newes was brought to him that both the Emperour and the Pope threatned his ruine answered thus in short but very stoutly Contemptus est à me Romanus furor servor I scorne the worst the Pope can doe like that of David The LORD is on my side I will not feare what man can doe unto me What you heard him speake you saw him practice For I may say of him as was said of Gideon such as the man is so is his strength he was one of a thousand for piety and courage which were so excellently mixed with wisdome that they who imagined mischiefe against his Ministry for no other occasion could they ever find against him then touching the law of his GOD were never able by all their plotting to doe him any more hurt than onely to shew their teeth And although he be now gathered to his Fathers yet he still speakes to you in this excellent Treatise of which he died in travell encouraging you thereby still to do worthily in Ephratah and to hold on in those good wayes of piety which you have ever loved The very Heathens could ●…ay that a good man was a publike good but a good Magistrate is much more for he hath a price in his hand to do good and is armed with power and authority to bring it to passe These times have need of such up therefore and be doing put on righteousnesse and let it cloath you and let Iustice be to you as a robe and a diademe to breake the jawes of the wicked and to plucke the prey out of their teeth And although these kind of men will for this very thing pursue you with envy hatred reproaches c. You need not care for their teeth are broken and they cannot hurt you Envy doth ever attend goodnesse though not as a companion yet as a thing which doggs it at the heeles I considered saith Salomon every right worke that for this a man is envyed of his neighbour This is your comfort and it is a great one GOD and the King shall honour you for well-doing He that loveth purenesse of heart though for this he be scoffed and jeer'd at in the world yet saith Salomon for the grace of his lips the King shall be his friend I will hinder you no longer from reading this excellent Treatise which properly belongs to you being the grand-worke of two Sermons preached before you the one at the Funeralls of that worthy Iudge your unkle my most deare father in law whom I honour in the dust The other in the time of your Shireevalty I will therefore end all in the prayer of this Authour and the last words that ever he spake to you in this world the blessings of Abraham Isaac and Iacob be upon the heads of you your wife and children for ever Your loving brother and very friend EDVVARD BAGSHAVVE TO THE READER BEhold here a Post-humus a Child brought into the world after the Own-Father was taken out of the world A Foster-Father is thereupon required for it but certenly more for custome than need Such was the Own Father as it is commendation enough for the Child to say This is the Child of such a Father