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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.
Use. 2 As you mean the good of your souls amend your lives, call ⟨p. 113⟩your selves to account while it is called to day, search and examine all your thoughts, words, and deeds, and prostrating your selves before God, with broken and bleeding affections, pray and sue that your names may be writ in heaven, in that Book of life.] This will be the joy of your hearts, the peace of your souls, the rest of your minds: yea how glad will you then be to have* all these books laid open? by this means (I speak it to the comfort of all true hearted Christians) shall your obedience, and repentance, and faith, and love, and zeal, and patience, &c. come to light and be known. God is not unrighteous to forget your works of labour and love. No, all must out, especially at that day when the books shall be open, our works manifested, and as we have done, so must we be rewarded, for then he shall reward every man according to his works.]
Ʋse. 2 As you mean the good of your souls amend your lives, call ⟨p. 113⟩your selves to account while it is called to day, search and examine all your thoughts, words, and deeds, and prostrating your selves before God, with broken and bleeding affections, pray and sue that your names may be writ in heaven, in that Book of life.] This will be the joy of your hearts, the peace of your souls, the rest of your minds: yea how glad will you then be to have* all these books laid open? by this means (I speak it to the comfort of all true hearted Christians) shall your obedience, and repentance, and faith, and love, and zeal, and patience, &c. come to light and be known. God is not unrighteous to forget your works of labour and love. No, all must out, especially at that day when the books shall be open, our works manifested, and as we have done, so must we be rewarded, for then he shall reward every man according to his works.]
- *It is a question, whether the sins of Gods people shall be manifested at that day? some say, they shall be manifested, not for their ignominy or confusion, but only that the goodness and grace of God may be made the more illustrious; and for this they urge,