A25250:242
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.
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.
Use. 1 Who can read or hear this Prognostication of Dooms-day, and not wonder at the signs which shall hang over our heads? we see by experience when any out-ragious storm happens on Sea or Land, how wonderfully men are dismayed, how strangely astonished: now then, when the Heavens, the Earth, the Sea, the Air shall be wholly distempered and disordered; when the Sun shall threaten with mourning, the Moon with blood, the Stars with their falling: yea when all the heavens shall shrink and pass away as a paper scroll, who then dares eat or drink, or sleep, or take a minutes rest? Be sure these days shall come, and the signs shall pass:1 Awake ye Drunkards, and weep all ye drinkers of Wine, because of the new wine; for it shall be pulled from your mouths. Gird your selves, and lament ye Priests, howl ye Ministers of the Altar: alas! for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. What are ye insensible of these signs? the imprisoned thief fears at the news of the assize: and is the sinner so impudent that he fears nothing? The day shall come when the men of earth shall fear, and be full of fear; every sign shall breed a wonder, and ever sight shall breed a wondrous terror, men shall hide themselves in the caves of beasts, and the beasts seek shall to save themselves in the houses of men: where then shall the wicked stand, when all the world shall be thus in uproar.
Ʋse. 1 Who can read or hear this Prognostication of Dooms-day, and not wonder at the signes which shall hang over our heads? we see by experience when any out-ragious storm happens on Sea or Land, how wonderfully men are dismayed, how strangely astonished: now then, when the Heavens, the Earth, the Sea, the Ayr shall be wholly distempered and disordered; when the Sun shall threaten with mourning, the Moon with blood, the Stars with their falling: yea when all the heavens shall shrink and pass away as a paper scroule, who then dares eat or drink, or sleep, or take a minutes rest? Be sure these dayes shall come, and the signes shall pass: