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

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,¹ and they brought forth plenteously, but a blast of death hath struck both the fruit and ground; and nothing is now left him but a barren Tomb.

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,¹ and they brought forth plenteously, but a blast of death hath struck both the fruit and ground; and nothing is now left him but a barren Tombe.

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Thirdly, his lands and houses both went together. You may guess that great demeans must have stately Halls: we read of his building, and especially of his Barns; when these were too little for his store, he tells us, he will pull them down, and he will build greater. He never thinks of any little room in the bowels of the poor. Was his harvest so great that his barns would not hold it? Whence came the blessing but from God? How is it then he forgets God that bestowed this blessing? It is written, When ye reap the harvest of the Land, ye shall not reap every corn of your field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of the harvest. How? not reap it? not gather it? what then? why, Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God, Levit. 19.9.¹ When Ruth came to glean in the fields of Boaz, that good Master commands his servants,