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

Stay, what would death have? the soul cannot die, and for the body, no matter who receives it. O yes! there is a death of the soul, as well as of the body: I mean not such a death whereby ⟨p. 74⟩it may be annihilated, but a second death that shall ever accompany it: this is a death of the soul, that will always keep it in deaths pangs. But not to speak of this death, there is another death temporal, that shall sever the soul and body each from other: these two twins that have lived together since their first espousal, these two lovely ones that were made, and met, and married by the hands of God these two made one, till death them depart, and make them two again, now is their rueful time of divorce: when death comes he gives over the body to the grave, and arrests the soul, to appear in presence before Gods high Tribunal. Such a Bailiff hath now laid hands on this rich mans soul, when he least thought on't, death comes on a sudden, and arrests his person. O wretched worldling! who is this behind thee? call we this Gods Sergeant? What grim, ugly, monstrous visage is this we see? have ever any of you seen the grisly picture of death before you? how was it but with hollow eyes, open skull, grinning teeth, naked ribs, a few bones knit together with dry strings, as presenting to your eyes the most deformed image of a man in moulds? But what's that in his hands? an hour-glass, and a dart: the one expressing the decreasings of our life, and the other deaths stroke, that he gives us in our death. Such emblems are most fit to express mortality: and imagine such a thing to arrest this rich man, would it not terrify him, whilst looking back, death suddenly claps him on his shoulder, away he must with this messenger, all the gold and pearl of East and West cannot stay him one hour: now rich man, what avails all thy worldly pleasure? Hadst thou in thy hands the reigns of all earthly kingdoms, wert thou exalted as the Eagle, ¹and thy nest set among the stars, yet all this, and whatsoever else thou canst imagine, is not worth a button: where did that man dwell, or of what cloth was his garment, that was ever comforted by his goods, or greatness, in this last and sorest conflict? See worldling, death requires thy soul, no bribe will be taken, no entreaty will prevail, no riches rescue, nothing at all redeem, death, death is impartial.

Stay, what would death have? the soul cannot die, and for the body, no matter who receives it. O yes! there is a death of the soul, as well as of the body: I mean not such a death whereby