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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dooms-day › According to his works.]Doomes-day › According to his works.]
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.
We have brought the prisoners to their trial, and now to go on, how should this trial be? I answer: not by faith, but works; by faith we are justified, by works we ⟨p. 109⟩are judged: faith only causeth, but works only manifest that we are just indeed. Here then is the trial, that every soul of man must undergo that day. Works are the matter that must be first enquired of: and is there any wicked man to receive his sentence? let him never hope to be saved by another's super-erogating, the matter of enquiring is not aliena, but sua, not another's, but his] works. Or is there any good man on whom the smiling Judge is ready to pronounce a blessed doom? Let him never boast of meriting heaven by his just deservings; see the reward given, not propter, but secundum, (as Gregory 1tells us) not for his works, as if they were the cause, but according to his works] as being the best witnesses of his inward righteousness.
VVEe have brought the prisoners to their triall, and now to go on, how should this triall be? I answer: not by faith, but works; by faith we are justified, by works we ⟨p. 109⟩are judged: faith onely causeth, but works onely manifest that we are just indeed. Here then is the triall, that every soul of man must undergo that day. Works are the matter that must be first enquired of: and is there any wicked man to receive his sentence? let him never hope to be saved by anothers super-erogating, the matter of enquiring is not aliena, but sua, not anothers, but his] works. Or is there any good man on whom the smiling Iudge is ready to pronounce a blessed doom? Let him never boast of meriting heaven by his just deservings; see the reward given, not propter, but secundum, (as Gregory 1tells us) not for his works, as if they were the cause, but according to his works] as being the best witnesses of his inward righteousness.
- 1Greg. 1. in illa verba 7. Psal. poenit. Auditam fac mihi mane misericordiam.