A25250:353
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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the Angels see our doings, the Judge now expects our returning, the Tares grow till the harvest, and if still they offend, death apprehends them, God will judge them, the Jailer take them, Hell imprison them, there are they bound: You hear the Evidence brought in, and the sentence gone out, Take them, Bind them. bind them in bundles to burn them.
the Angels see our doings, the Judge now exspects our returning, the Tares grow till the harvest, and if still they offend, death apprehends them, God will judge them, the Iayler take them, Hell imprison them, there are they bound: You hear the Evidence brought in, and the sentence gone out, Take them, Binde them. binde them in bundles to burn them.
And if this be the Jailers Goal, what then be the Bonds or Chains?
And if this be the Iaylers Goal, what then be the Bonds or Chains?
The Angles which kept not their first estate (saith Jude) God hath reserved in everlasting Chains, 1and God spared not the Angels that sinned (saith Peter) but cast them down to hell, 2and delivered them into Chains of darkness. Thus Christ doomed him that had not on his wedding garment, Bind him hand and foot: ⟨p. 136⟩3and what may these Chains and Bonds insinuate, but that the Tares are tied to their torments? might they but remove from place to place, this would afford some ease; might they but stir a foot, or but turn about, or have any little motion to refresh their tormented parts, this would yield some comfort; but here is an universal binding, hand and foot body and soul, all must be bound with everlasting Chains. The Reprobates are packed and crowded together, like Bricks in a fiery furnace, having not so much as a Chink where any wind may enter in to cool them. O ye that live in the sinful wealth of this world, consider but this one punishment of hell, and be afraid! if a man enjoying quietment of mind, and health of body, should lie chained on a soft Down-bed for a month, or a year, how would he abide it? but this is nothing: If a man should lye sick of a Fever, swoln in a Dropsy, pained with the Gout, and (though it were for the recovery of his health) without any turning, tossing, stirring, this were a great torture sure, and a question it were, whether the disease or the physic were more intolerable?