A25250:215
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.
Certainly, certainly, if thou goest on in sin, thus would be thy departure, thy carcass lying cold among the stones of the pit, and thy soul, by the weight of sin, irrecoverably sinking into the bottom of that bottomless burning lake.
Certainly, certainly, if thou goest on in sinne, thus would be thy departure, thy carkass lying cold among the stones of the pit, and thy soul, by the weight of sinne, irrecoverably sinking into the bottome of that bottomless burning lake.
Use 2 But to prevent this evil, take this use of advice for thy farewell: whilst yet thy life lasteth, whilst yet the Lord gives thee a gracious day of visitation, ply, ply all those blessed means of salvation, as prayer, and conference, and meditation, and Sermons, and Sacraments, and fastings, and watchings, and patience, and faith, and a good conscience; in a word, so live, that when this day or night of death comes, thou mayest then stand firm and sure: as yet thou art in the way of a transitory life, as yet thou art not entered into the confines of Eternity: if now therefore thou wilt walk in the holy path, if now thou wilt stand out against any sin whatsoever, if now thou wilt take on thee the yoke of our Saviour Christ, if now thou wilt associate thy self to that sect and brotherhood, that is every where spoken against; if now thou wilt direct thy words to the glorifying of God, and to give grace unto the hearers; if now thou wilt delight in the word, the ways, the Saints, the services of God; if now thou wilt never turn again unto folly, or to thy trade of sin, though Satan set upon thee with his baits and allurements, to detain thee in his bondage, but by one darling delight,1 one minion-sin, then I dare assure thee, dear, right dear would be thy death in the sight of the Lord: with joy and triumph wouldst thou pass through all the terrors of death, with singing and rejoicing would thy soul be received into those sacred mansions above. O happy soul, if this be thy case! O happy night or day, whensoever the news comes, that then must thy soul be taken from thee!