A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...

63. Mr. Bolton falling sick of a Quartan-Ague, and finding his Distemper get strength, revised his Will; and having preached upon Death, Judgment, and Hell, he promised next to preach upon Heaven, the only fourth and last Thing that remained; but never preached more. He often breathed forth these Speeches, O when will this good Hour come? When shall I be dissolved? When shall I be with Christ?— Tho' Life be a great Blessing, yet I infinitely more desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. He thanked God for his wonderful Mercy, in pulling him out of Hell, in sealing his Ministry by the Conversion of Souls, which he wholly ascribed to his Glory: He cal∣led for his Wife, and desired her to bear his Dissolution with a Christian Fortitude; and turning to his Children, told them, they should not now expect from him, in his Weakness, to say any thing to them; he had told them enough formerly, and hoped they would remember it, and verily believed, that none of them durst think to meet him at the great Tribunal in an unrege∣nerate State. Some of his Neighbours moved to him, that he would tell them what he felt in his Soul: Alas! said he, do ye look for that now from me, who want Breath and Power to speak? I have told ye enough in my Ministry: Yet to satisfie you, I am, by the wonderful Mercies of God, as full of Comfort as my Heart can hold, and feel nothing in my Soul but Christ, with whom I heartily desire to be. And seeing some weeping, he said, Oh, what a deal of Doe there is before one can die! The very Pags of Death being upon him, after a few gapings for Breath, he said, I am now drawing on apace to my Dissolution: Hold out Faith and Patience, your Work will quickly be at an end. Then shaking them by the Hand, he desired them to make sure of Heaven, and re∣member what he had formerly taught them, protesting, that it was the Truth of God, as he should answer it at the Tribunal of Christ, before whom he should shortly appear. And a dear Friend taking him by the Hand, ask'd him, if he did not feel much pain? Truly no, said he, the greatest that I feel is your cold Hand. And then being laid down again, not long after he yielded up his Spirit unto God, Anno 1631. Aged 60. Ibid. p. 591.