Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things

But as heretics, so all reprobates whatsoever are the Tares here spoken of, they are offenders on all hands, both in doctrine and conversation: and thus our Saviour interprets, The good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the Tares are the children of the wicked one, ver. 38.¹

But as hereticks, so all reprobates whatsoever are the Tares here spoken of, they are offenders on all hands, both in doctrine and conversation: and thus our Saviour interprets, The good seed are the children of the kingdome, but the Tares are the children of the wicked one, ver. 38.¹

1. 1Vers. 38.

And most fitly are the reprobates called Tares, in respect of their Intrusion here. Separation hereafter.

First, as the Tares grow amongst corn, so the wicked all their life associate themselves with the godly; the Church (saith Austin) is full both of wheat and chaff.¹ I avoid the chaff lest I become chaff, but I keep the floor lest I become nothing. What else? in this life the best company is not free from the intrusion of Tares, therefore cries David, Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar, Psal. 120.4.² No greater discomfort then to cohabit with the wicked: are they not pricks in our eyes, and thorns in our sides? yea they are thorns indeed, saith the Lord to Ezekiel,