A25250:207
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.
Cannot this serve? let death yet stay his hand, there stands a servant waiting at this rich mans beck, as if he would spend his own life to save his Masters; he can make a Pageant of Cringes, act a whole speech of flatteries, every part owes him service, feet to run, hands to work, head to crouch, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of a Mistress, so the eyes of his servants look unto the hands of their Master: but where be these attendants when death comes? was ever any Master better then Christ? were ever any servants truer then his Apostles? yet see their fidelity, must their Saviour die? one betrays him another forswears him all run from him, and leave him alone in midst of all his enemies: what then is the trust of servants? the rich man may command and go without, if death should require them, they would not, or if they should desire death, he will not; his arrest concerns not the servants, it is for the Master himself he that command others, now death commands him: Of thee] it is required.
Cannot this serve? let death yet stay his hand, there stands a servant waiting at this rich mans beck, as if he would spend his own life to save his Masters; he can make a Pageant of Cringes, act a whole speech of flatteries, every part owes him service, feet to run, hands to work, head to crouch, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of a Mistris, so the eyes of his servants look unto the hands of their Master: but where be these attendants when death comes? was ever any Master better then Christ? were ever any servants truer then his Apostles? yet see their fidelitie, must their Saviour die? one betrayes him another forswears him all run from him, and leave him alone in midst of all his enemies: what then is the trust of servants? the rich man may command and go without, if death should require them, they would not, or if they should desire death, hee will not; his arrest concerns not the servants, it is for the Master himself he that command others, now death commands him: Of thee] it is required.