A25250:328
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.
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.
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WE will begin first with the subject, that you may know of whom it is spoken, Bind them] Them? whom? If you will view the precedent words, the text tells you they are Tares, Gather ye first the Tares, and bind them. In Gods ⟨p. 128⟩field there is Corn and Cockle, and as for the one there is provided a barn, so for the other there is nothing better then binding and burning.
VVE will begin first with the subject, that you may know of whom it is spoken, Bind them] Them? whom? If you will view the precedent words, the text tels you they are Tares, Gather ye first the Tares, and bind them. In Gods ⟨p. 128⟩field there is Corn and Cockle, and as for the one there is provided a barn, so for the other there is nothing better then binding and burning.
The Greek word calls them [Greek or Hebrew], tares; the Hebrews call them Hadul, thistles, or thorns; and both are apt expressions of the matter in hand: what are tares for? but to be gathered, bound, and burned, saith our Saviour: and what are thorns for? but to be rejected, cursed, and burned, saith the Apostle, Heb. 6.8.1 Such is the penalty of this weed of the earth (for they are neither better) that as men deal with thorns, who first cut them up with bills, then lay them up to wither, and lastly, burn them in the furnace; so God deals with Tares, he weeds them, binds them, burns them; not a Tare escapes the fire, but all come to combustion.