A25250:302
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.
Is this your inheritance? but upon what right? it is prepared for you from the beginning of the world.] Had the Lord such care to provide for his children before they were? how may his sons triumph born to such dignity? God will so certain their salvation, that he hath prepared it for them from before the foundation of the world. O blessed souls, if you be Gods servants! though a while you suffer sorrow and tribulation, yet here is the hope of Saints,1 it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Heaven is prepared of old, there is the place of Gods majesty, and there the Saints of God shall receive the crown, the reward of victory.
Is this your inheritance? but upon what right? it is prepared for you from the beginning of the world.] Had the Lord such care to provide for his children before they were? how may his sonnes triumph born to such dignitie? God will so certain their salvation, that he hath prepared it for them from before the foundation of the world. O blessed souls, if you be Gods servants! though a while you suffer sorrow and tribulation, yet here is the hope of Saints,1 it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdome. Heaven is prepared of old, there is the place of Gods majestie, and there the Saints of God shall receive the crown, the reward of victory.
Use. I cannot express what this joy affords to the one half of it. Come blessed souls, bathed in repenting tears, here is a sentence able to revive the dead much more the afflicted. Are you now sorrowing for your sins? leave it a while, and meditate with me on this ensuing melody. Hear yonder a quire of Angels, a song of Zion, an heavenly consort, sounding to the Judge whilst he is pronouncing of thy sentence. Blessed souls! how pant you dances at the uttering of each syllable? Come] saith our Saviour, and if he but say Come, joy, happiness, glory, felicity, all come on heaps into the endeared soul. Ye blessed] saith our Saviour, and if he but say Blessed, the Angels, Archangels, Cherubims, Seraphims, all joy at the enjoying of this blessed company. Inherit the kingdom] saith our Saviour, and if he but say inherit, crowns, sceptres, garlands, diadems, all these are the inheritance of Gods adopted children. Prepared for you] saith our Saviour, and if he but say Prepared, the love, mercy, election, compassion of our Lord will shine forth to the soul to her everlasting comfort. O ravishing voice!