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

Secondly, as hell fire differs from ours in heat, so in light. Cast that unprofitable servant (saith our Saviour) into utter darkness, Mat. 25.30.¹ Utter] to perplex the mind, Darkness] to confound the eye. Consider but the terror of this circumstance, if a man alone in darkness, should suddenly hear a noise of ghosts, and spirits coming towards him, how would his hair bristle, his tongue falter, his blood run to the heart? yea, (I dare say) although he felt never a lash from them on his body, yet the only holing of devils, would make his very inmost heart to shake and shudder? O then, what horror is that when darkness must surround thee, and devils hollow to thee, and reprobates shriek at the lashing of their bodies, and all hell be filled with the cries and echoes of Woe. woe. wo• for their torments, and the darkness? May be you will object, if there be fire, there is assuredly light: nay, (without question) this fire hath heat, no light; it is a dark smoky flame, that burns dimm to the eye, yet sharp to the f•nce; o• it may be• (as some do imagine) this fire affords a […] p••i•eous o• obscure light, but how? not for comforts, but confusion. Conceive it thus, he that in twilight sees deformed Images, or in the night beholds shapes of Ghosts, and spirits, by a dimm dark light, why better he saw nothing, then suck t••••le visions▪ such fears, nay a thousand times worse are preserved to the […] of Reprobates, they may discern through darkness, the ugly face• of fiend •f the foul visages of Reprobates, the furious torments of their friends, or parents, while all lye together in the same condemnation. What comfort affords this light, where nothing is seen but the Judges wrath, and the prisoners punishment? O (will they cry) that our eyes were out, or the flames were quenched, or ⟨p. 149⟩