A25250:169
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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As there is one God and three persons, so there is one soul and three faculties: the Father, Son, and holy Ghost are but one God; the Understanding, Will, and Memory are but one soul: the Father is not the Son, nor the Son the holy Ghost; so the Understanding is not the Will, nor the Will the Memory: and yet the Father is God, the Son is God, and the holy Ghost ⟨p. 68⟩is God; so the Understanding is the soul, the VVill is the soul, and the Memory is the soul. I dare not say, but there is some difference.1 This trinity in us we rather see it then believe it; but that Trinity of Persons, we more believe it then see it: Howsoever then our soul is no proof of the Godhead, yet is it a true sign of that image of God in the soul. Nay, yet (as if this stamp were of a deeper impression) see the dowry of Gods Spouse, and who wonders not at the qualities & conditions with which the soul is arrayed? The Kings daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of broidered gold. What say you to that heavenly knowledge inspired into us? God that created man, filled him with knowledge of understanding, and showed them good and evil, Ecclus 17.6. What say you to those heavenly impressions that are stamped upon us?2 such are the new mans marks, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Ephes. 4.24. These make the soul like God, and God loving to the soul; is it not clad with righteousness, as with a garment? witness the integrity of Adam, in that sweet subjection, his soul to the Lord, his affections to the soul, his body to the affections, the whole man to God, as to the chiefest good: and as truth and mercy meet together, so righteousness and holiness kiss each other: this righteousness to God is it that makes us righteous afore God, and this is that holiness wherein we are created. O blessed image! how nearly dost thou resemble thy Creator? he is the pattern of perfection, and we bear the image of that pattern. Be ye holy, for I am holy, 1. Pet. 1.15.3