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

2. But to answer positively, this Then is no other then Dooms-day, and when that shall be, will be known best by Conjectures, Signs.

2. But to answer positively, this Then is no other then Doomes-day, and when that shall be, will be known best by Conjectures, Signes.

We will begin with the former.

Some would have it in the year 6000. from the beginning of the world: this was the sentence of Elijah (say the Jews) whose prophecy thus runs, two thousand years before the Law, two thousand under the Law, and two thousand under the Gospel: how untrue this sounds, any one may guess that considers: in the first number he fails because it was too little; in the second number he errs, because it was too much: and if Elijah say amiss for the time now past, how should we believe him for that yet to come? Others, besides testimony produce reason, that as God was creating the world six days, so he must be a governing it six thousand years, here's a seeming proportion, but upon what reason? Every day, (say they) must be a thousand years with man, because a thousand years, are but as one day with God. ¹It were too frivolous a pains to repeat any more, or to answer these: Is not this sacrilege, ²to break into Gods place and pry into his Sanctuary? Why should we presume to know more then God would have us? Look at the Apostles, were they not Gods Secretaries? Look at the Angels, are they not Gods Heralds? Look at Christ himself, is he not the Son of God? and yet as he is the Son of man, he speaks of all, Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no Angel, neither the Son, but the Father only: