A25250:109
Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things
Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things: or certain meditations on life, death, judgement, hell, right purgatory, and heaven: delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire.
London: printed for J.A., 1650
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Sweet rose, cropped in its blossom, no sooner budded, but blasted; how shall we remember his days, to forget our sorrows? no sooner had he learnt to speak, but (contrary to our custom) he betook him to his prayers; so soon had grace quelled the corruption of his nature, that being yet an infant, you might see his proneness to learn, nay, sometimes to teach them this duty, who waited on to teach him his devotion: not long after he was set to school, where he learned by book, what before he had learned by heart: the sweet care, good disposition, sincere religion, which were in this child, all may remember which cast but their eyes upon him. O God, how hast thou ⟨p. 38⟩bereaved us of this Gem? Sure it is (as it was said of another) for this cause only, that it might shine in heaven. But this was but the beginning of his days, now they are past, they have been.]
Sweet rose, cropt in its blossome, no sooner budded, but blasted; how shall we remember his daies, to forget our sorrows? no sooner had he learnt to speak, but (contrary to our custome) he betook him to his prayers; so soon had grace quelled the corruption of his nature, that being yet an infant, you might see his proneness to learn, nay, sometimes to teach them this dutie, who waited on to teach him his devotion: not long after he was set to school, where he learned by book, what before he had learned by heart: the sweet care, good disposition, sincere religion, which were in this child, all may remember which cast but their eyes upon him. O God, hovv hast thou ⟨p. 38⟩bereaved us of this Gem? Sure it is (as it was said of another) for this cause onely, that it might shine in heaven. But this was but the beginning of his dayes, now they are past, they have been.]
Go a little further, we left him at school, but how learned he Christ, 1and him crucified? this was the knowledge taught him by the Spirit of God in a wonderful manner. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou, O God, ordained strength. To consider again his religious words, his upright actions, his hearty devotions, his fear of God, all then concluded, as they did of John,