A25250:315
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.
neither shall any tears, or prayers, or promises, or suits, or cries, or yellings, or calling upon Rocks and Mountains, or wishes never to have been, or now to be made nothing, be then heard, or prevail in their behalf: nay, (yet more to increase their torments) there is not one in Earth or Heaven that will speak one word in their behalf: but without mercy, without stay, without any farewell at all, they shall be immediately and irrecoverably cast down into the bottomless pit of easeless, endless, and remediless torments. Oh! what then will be the gnawings of the never-dying worm? what rage of guilty consciences? what furious despair? what horror of mind? what distractions and fears? what tearing their hair, and gnashing of teeth? In a word, what wailing, weeping, roaring, yelling, filling heaven, and earth, and hell? O miserable Caitiffs, catched and wrapped in the snares of Satan! What need we more? this is the Judges charge, the Sheriffs Commission,1 the sinners execution, Take them away, cast them into utter darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. A darkness indeed, that must ever be debarred from the sight of heaven: no sun-shine ever peeps within those Walls, no light, no fire, no candle, alas! nothing is there but Clouds and darkness, thick smoke, and fiery sulphur: and such is the portion of sinners, the Reward of the wicked.
neither shall any tears, or prayers, or promises, or suits, or cryes, or yellings, or calling upon Rocks and Mountains, or wishes never to have been, or now to be made nothing, be then heard, or prevail in their behalf: nay, (yet more to encrease their torments) there is not one in Earth or Heaven that will speak one word in their behalf: but without mercy, without stay, without any farewell at all, they shall be immediately and irrecoverably cast down into the bottomless pit of easeless, endless, and remediless torments. Oh! what then will be the gnawings of the never-dying worm? what rage of guilty consciences? what furious despair? what horrour of mind? what distractions and fears? what tearing their hair, and gnashing of teeth? In a word, what wailing, weeping, roaring, yelling, filling heaven, and earth, and hell? O miserable Caitiffs, catcht and wrapt in the snares of Sathan! What need we more? this is the Judges charge, the Sheriffs Commission,1 the sinners execution, Take them away, cast them into utter darknesse, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. A darknesse indeed, that must ever be debarred from the sight of heaven: no sunne-shine ever peeps within those Walls, no light, no fire, no candle, alas! nothing is there but Clouds and darknesse, thick smoak, and fierie sulphure: and such is the portion of sinners, the Reward of the wicked.