Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things

LUKE 12.20. This night thy soul shall be required of thee.

Mans Body (we say) is closed up within the Elements, his Blood in his Body, his Spirits in his Blood, his Soul in his Spirits and God or Satan in his Soul. Who holds the possession we may guess in life, but then is it most apparent when we come to death: The tree may bend East, or West, or North, or South; but as it falleth so it lieth: Our affections may look up or down, towards heaven or hell; but as we die we receive our doom, and then whose we are shall be fully made manifest to all the world. There is a parable of poor Lazarus, ¹whose life was nothing but a catalogue of miseries, his body full of sores, his mind full of sorrows; what spectacle could we think more pitiful, whose best dainties were but broken crumbs, and his warmest lodging but the rich mans gates? Here is a parable of a certain rich man, who enjoys (or at least purposeth) a delicious fare, he hath lands vers. 16.² fruits, vers. 17.³ buildings, vers. 18.⁴ and if this be the Inventory, what is the sum? see it collected in the verse succeeding, Soul, ⁵thou hast much goods laid up for many years; now live at ease, Eat, drink, and take thy pastime. These two estates thus different, how should ⟨p. 44⟩they be but of divers tenures?⁶ No man can serve God and Mammon. See Lazarus dying, and the Angels carry him in-Abraham's bosom. See this rich man dying, and they (that is, devils) require his soul. God receives one, and his soul is in heaven; Satan takes the other, and drags down his soul to hell; he is comforted that received pains, and thou art tormented that wast full of ease: this is the doom, and that he may undergo this, death now gives the summons, This night thy soul shall be required of thee.