A25250:376
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.
And yet more Bundles, where is Covetousness and her gripers? O the iron age we live in! was there ever less love? ever more dissembling? the covetous hoardeth, holdeth, oppresseth, or it may be puts out to usury, but never without sureties, pledges, mortgages, bills or bonds; Think of those bonds ye covetous, that must hind you in bundles; had you then ten thousand worlds, and were they all composed of purest gold, and brim-full with richest jewels, yet would you call them all at the foot of some Lazarus, for one drop of water, or one puff of wind, to cool any part or piece of your tormented members. See the cruel effect of sin, he that hath no pity, shall not be pitied, no, he shall have j•d•ement without mercy, that hath showed no mercy, James 2.13.1 Thus to pay the covetous in his own coin, coffers and chests shall be brought before him, there shall devils ring him a peal of this damned coin, of pounds, of shillings, of pence, these accounts shall sound through his ears; and to satisfy his heart, melted gold shall be poured down his throat, yea he shall be served too with his meat in pl••• and plate and meat all boil together to his loathed supper; thus hath God satisfied him that could never satisfy himself, his gold now wants no weight, his silver is not scarce, mountains and loads are prepared for him to his greater torments.
And yet more Bundles, where is Covetousnes and her gripers? O the iron age we live in! was there ever lesse love? ever more dissembling? the covetous hoardeth, holdeth, oppresseth, or it may be puts out to usury, but never without sureties, pledges, morgages, bills or bonds; Think of those bonds ye covetous, that must hind you in bundles; had you then ten thousand worlds, and were they all composed of purest gold, and brim-full with richest jewels, yet would you call them all at the foot of some Lazarus, for one drop of water, or one puff of wind, to cool any part or piece of your tormented members. See the cruell effect of sinne, he that hath no pity, shall not be pitied, no, he shall have j•d•ement without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy,