A25250:307
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.
But whence? there is the loss, from me,] and if from me, then from all that is mine, my mercy, my glory, my salvation. Here is an universal spoil of all things, of God in whom is all goodness, of the Saints in whom is all solace, of the Angels in whom is all happiness, of heaven, wherein all pleasures live ever and ever. Whither O Lord shall the cursed go that depart from thee? into what haven shall they arrive? what Master shall they serve? is it thought so great a punishment to be banished from our native soils? what then is this to be banished from Almighty God? and whither, but into a place of horror; to whom? but to a cursed crew of howling reprobates. Depart from me.
But whence? there is the losse, from me,] and if from me, then from all that is mine, my mercy, my glory, my salvation. Here is an universall spoil of all things, of God in whom is all goodnesse, of the Saints in whom is all solace, of the Angels in whom is all happinesse, of heaven, wherein all pleasures live ever and ever. Whither O Lord shall the cursed go that depart from thee? into what haven shall they arrive? what Master shall they serve? is it thought so great a punishment to be banished from our native soils? what then is this to be banished from Almighty God? and whither, but into a place of horrour; to whom? but to a cursed crew of howling reprobates. Depart from me.
Who are they? Ye cursed] Christ hath before invited you with blessings, but these refused, now take you the curse to your despite:1 the wicked man (saith the Prophet) as he hath loved cursing so let it come unto him: hath he loved it? let him take ⟨p. 119⟩his love: as he hath clothed himself with cursing, as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels, like water, and like oil into his bones, Psal. 109.18.2