A25250:241
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.
Then] shall Plants cease their growth, Beasts want their sense, men loose their reason: were this but little? you may wonder more. The Sibyls could affirm, that Nature should both cease, and change her being, the Trees in stead of growth should sweat out blood, the Beasts should bellow up & down the fields, then want their sense. Men should have disfigured faces, astonished hearts, affrighted looks, then lose their reason: nay, what marvel then, if at the worlds end, they be at their wits end? O fearful signs, enough to move flinty stones! if this be the Term, what is the Suit, the Bill, the Doom, the Execution? a Trump shall summon, Death will arrest, God must have ⟨p. 96⟩appearance, and Then] is the day: Then] he shall reward every man according to his works.
Then] shall Plants cease their growth, Beasts want their sence, men loose their reason: were this but little? you may wonder more. The Sibylls could affirm, that Nature should both cease, and change her being, the Trees in stead of growth should sweat out blood, the Beasts should bellow up & down the fields, then want their sence. Men should have disfigured faces, astonished hearts, affrighted looks, then lose their reason: nay, what marvail then, if at the worlds end, they be at their wits end? O fearful signes, enough to move flintie stones! if this be the Term, what is the Suit, the Bill, the Doom, the Execution? a Trump shall summon, Death will arrest, God must have ⟨p. 96⟩appearance, and Then] is the day: Then] he shall reward every man according to his works.
What a Chaos is here, when the world must be thus turned topsy torvie? the Sun the Moon, the Stars; come yet lower, the Fire, the Air, the Sea, the Earth; nay Trees, and Beasts, and Men, all must be out of order in the whole course of Nature.
What a Chaos is here, when the world must be thus turned topsie torvie? the Sun the Moon, the Starrs; come yet lower, the Fire, the Air, the Sea, the Earth; nay Trees, and Beasts, and Men, all must be out of order in the whole course of Nature.