A25250:187
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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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.
Use. Reflect these thoughts on your own souls, and consider with your selves, what may be your cases; it may be as yet thou standest upright without any changes, hitherto thou hast seen no days of sorrow, but even washed thy steps with butter, and the ⟨p. 76⟩rock hath poured thee out rivers of oil. 1Alas! was not this the case of this wretched worldling? yet for all this, you see a night came that paid for all: and so may it be with thee; a day, an hour,2 a moment, is enough to overturn the things that seem to have been founded, and rooted in Adamant; who can tell whether this night, this storm may fall upon thee? art thou not strangely nailed and glued unto sense? art thou not stupidly senseless in spiritual things, that for pelf, vanity, dung, nothing, wilt run headlong and wilfully into easeless, endless, and remediless torments? Yet such is thy doing, (if thou beest a worldling) to get riches to thy body, and let death and devils have thy soul. O beloved, consider in time, and seeing you have such a terrible example set before you, let this worldling be your warning.
Ʋse. Reflect these thoughts on your own souls, and consider with your selves, what may be your cases; it may be as yet thou standest upright without any changes, hitherto thou hast seen no days of sorrow, but even washed thy steps with butter, and the ⟨p. 76⟩rock hath poured thee out rivers of oyle. 1Alas! was not this the case of this wretched worldling? yet for all this, you see a night came that paid for all: and so may it be with thee; a day, an hour,2 a moment, is enough to overturn the things that seem to have been founded, and rooted in Adamant; who can tell whether this night, this storm may fall upon thee? art thou not strangely nailed and glued unto sence? art thou not stupidly senceless in spirituall things, that for pelf, vanity, dung, nothing, wilt run headlong and willfully into easelesse, endlesse, and remediles torments? Yet such is thy doing, (if thou beest a worldling) to get riches to thy body, and let death and devils have thy soul. O beloved, consider in time, and seeing you have such a terrible example set before you, let this worldling be your warning.