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

Use. 1 Our neighbours fire, cannot but give warning of approaching flames. Remember his judgment, thine also may be likewise: ¹unto me yester-day, and unto thee to day. Whose turn is next God only knows, who knows all. Is not madness in the hearts of men whiles they live? ²In the least suspicion of loosing worldly riches, all watch and break their sleep; you shall see men work, and toil, and fear, and care, and all too little to prevent a loss; but for all these losses which are linked together, our riches, lands, houses, friends, time, and soul, and all we have, there is few or none regards them: O that men are so careful in trifles, and so negligent in matters of a great importance! It is storied of Archimedes, that when Syracuse was taken, he only ⟨p. 50⟩was sitting secure at home, and drawing circles with his compass in the dust. Thus some we have, that when the eternal salvation of their souls is in question, they are handling their dust, nothing but suites or money-matters are their daily objects: but (alas) what will your goods or grounds, or houses, or friends avail you, when death comes? Where did ever that man dwell, that was comforted by any of these, in that last and sorest conflict? Give me a man amongst you, that spends the span of his transitory life in grasping gold, gathering wealth, growing great, enriching his posterity, without any endeavour, or care to treasure up grace against that fatal hour; and I dare certainly tell him, whensoever he comes to his deaths bed, he shall find nothing but an horrible confusion, extremest horror and heaviness of heart; nay, his soul shall presently down into the kingdom of darkness, and there lye and fry in everlasting fires. Nor speak I only to the covetous (though my text seem more directly to point at them) but whosoever thou art that goest on daily in a course of sin, in the fear of God unbethink thee of mortality: some of you may think I speak not to you, and others, I speak not to you; the truth is I speak to you all, but to you more especially that to this day have sinned with delight, but never as yet felt the smart for sin upon your souls or consciences: O beloved! this is it I call for, and must call for till you feel a change, a thorough-change in you: