A25250:125
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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Doctrine. NO other but This? were it a fortnight, a seven-night, any but This] night, and his griefs were lessened; the news is more heartless in that it comes more sudden. You may observe, Then are the greatest losses when they come on us by heaps, and without fear or suspicion of any such matter. Here was a man swimming in his fullness, and a sudden death robs him of all his treasures. To give you a full view, see his possessions, and how great was the loss, because of the suddenness: This] night.
Doctrine. NO other but This? were it a fortnight, a seven-night, any but This] night, and his griefs were lessened; the news is more heartlesse in that it comes more sudden. You may observe, Then are the greatest losses when they come on us by heaps, and without fear or suspicion of any such matter. Here was a man swimming in his fulnesse, and a sudden death robs him of all his treasures. To give you a full view, see his possessions, and how great was the losse, because of the suddennesse: This] night.
First, those goods, whereof he boasted, are now confiscate; not a penny, not a dram, not a mite shall be left him, save only a token of remembrance (I mean his winding-sheet) which he carries along with him to his grave.
First, those goods, whereof he boasted, are now confiscate; not a peny, not a dram, not a mite shall be left him, save onely a token of remembrance (I mean his winding-sheet) which he carries along with him to his grave.
Secondly, his goods and grounds both were took from him at his death; he that commanded so much of earth must now have no more earth to pleasure him but a grave; what a change was this? his grounds were fertile,