A25250:270
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.
Two travellers go together, feed together, lye together, sleep together, but in the morn their ways part asunder: thus the sheep and goats eat together, drink together, sleep together, rot together but at this day there shall be a separation, let them grow together, corn and tares until the harvest: this world is the floor,1 fan while you will, there will be some chaff; love peace like lambs their will be some goats to trouble; the sheep and goats live both together in one fold, the world; lye both together in one cote, the grave: the world is a common Inn, which entertains all manner of passengers: the rode-way to death, is the Kings high-way free for all travellers: after the passage of this weary day, death hath provided a large bed to lay all in, the grave: all live together, and all lye together, all rest together, and all rot together: but when this night is past, and the last day is sprung, then is the woeful separation; some turn on the right, and those are the blessed; others on the left hand, and those are the cursed. Here is the beginning of woes, when the wicked shall curse, and howl, like the fiends of hell. O Lord, punish me here (saith one devoutly) rack me in pieces, ⟨p. 107⟩cut me in shreds, burn me in fire, so that I may be there placed at thy right hand: 2Blessed are they that have a place amongst those elect sheep; what now remains but their doom, which is a lot that must befall every man? for he shall reward (not one, or some, but every one) every man according to his works.
Two travellers go together, feed together, lye together, sleep together, but in the morn their wayes part asunder: thus the sheep and goates eat together, drink together, sleep together, rot together but at this day there shall be a separation, let them grow together, corn and tares untill the harvest: this world is the flloor,1 fan while you will, there will be some chaff; love peace like lambs their will be some goats to trouble; the sheep and goats live both together in one fold, the world; lye both together in one cote, the grave: the world is a common Inne, which entertains all manner of passengers: the rode-way to death, is the Kings high-way free for all travellers: after the passage of this weary day, death hath provided a large bed to lay all in, the grave: all live together, and all lye together, all rest together, and all rot together: but when this night is past, and the last day is sprung, then is the wofull separation; some turn on the right, and those are the blessed; others on the left hand, and those are the cursed. Here is the beginning of woes, when the wicked shall curse, and houl, like the fiendes of hell. O Lord, punish me here (saith one devoutly) rack me in pieces,