A25250:13
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When Pharaoh was Egypts King, Joseph Pharaohs Steward, and Jacob Josephs father, there was a great famine which Pharaoh had dreamed, Joseph fore-told, and Jacob suffered: God that sent Joseph to Pharaoh, brings Jacob to Joseph, the same providence so disposing of all, that yet some food must be in Egypt, when nothing was found in all the land of Canaan: Thither come, & welcome (as you may see in the story,) Pharaoh salutes Jacob with this question, What is thy age? How many are thy days? How many? alas, but few: what are they? alas, but evil: Thus we find Jacob at his Arithmetic, the bill is short, and the number but a cipher: Will you hear him cast his accounts? First, they are days, and without all rules of falsehood, by subtraction few, by addition full of evil; contract all and this is the sum of all, Few and evil have the days of my live been.
WHen Pharaoh was Egypts King, Joseph Pharaohs Steward, and Jacob Josephs father, there was a great famine which Pharaoh had dreamed, Joseph fore-told, and Iacob suffered: God that sent Ioseph to Pharaoh, brings Iacob to Ioseph, the same providence so disposing of all, that yet some food must be in Egypt, when nothing was found in all the land of Canaan: Thither come, & welcome (as you may see in the storie,) Pharaoh salutes Iacob with this question, What is thy age? How many are thy dayes? How many? alas, but few: what are they? alas, but evil: Thus we find Iacob at his Arithmetick, the bill is short, and the number but a cyphar: Will you hear him cast his accounts? First, they are dayes, and without all rules of falshood, by subtraction few, by addition full of evil; contract all and this is the sum of all, Few and evil have the dayes of my live been.