A25250:348
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 secondly, good and bad Angles both join in this office to bind the Tares: if there be any difference, it is in this, the good Angles begin, and the bad continue, to make the binding everlasting. Here is a jailer indeed, and if you would see him in his form, you may take the description from that great Leviathan, Job 41.18. By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye lids of the morning, out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out; out of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a seething pot or cauldron; his breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth, Job 41.18, 19, 20, 21.1 What an ugly devil is this, whom God only mystically describes with such terrible shapes? his neesing flames, his eyes stare, his mouth shoots fire, his nostrils smoke, his very breath sets all a burning round about him. Such a jailer hath God prepared for hell-prisoners. As God hath fettered him, so he lays fetters on them, revenging his own malice on his fellow-sufferers. The devil first tempts, and then he fetters Tares: whiles men live on earth, he lays snares for souls: thus he prepared flatterers for Rehoboam, liars for Ahab, concubines for Solomon, sorcerers for Pharaoh, witches for Saul, wine for Benhadad, gold for Achan, a ship for Jonah, and a rope for Haman: but he that makes gins, and nets, and snares on earth, makes bolts, and hammers, and whips in hell; thus he hath prepared darkness for Herod, a fire for Dives, plagues for Pilate, brimstone for Judas, snares for ⟨p. 134⟩Demas, and fiery fetters for all Reprobate Tares: what need poor souls any further fetters, whom the Devil once shuts within his Den? Dare you live in such a nest amongst speckled poisons? there Serpents girdle the loins, and Cockatrices kill with their eyes, and Dragons spit fire from their mouths, and Wolves all devour mens souls, and Lions roar for the prey, and Vipers sting and strike with their Tails: O fearful Jailers! what strange kind of furies live in hell.
But secondly, good and bad Angles both joyn in this office to binde the Tares: if there be any difference, it is in this, the good Angles begin, and the bad continue, to make the binding everlasting. Here is a jaylor indeed, and if you would see him in his form, you may take the description from that great Leviathan,