A25250:404
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The point is not full, but to make it up, the Text stands compassed with words of wonder, concerning the word, our Saviour; he that is the Son of God, heir of all things, creator of the world, the brightness of his glory, the image of his person, and upholder of all things by the word of his power, stands here as the subject of humility and glory: he purged our sins, and sits on the right hand of the majesty on high. He purged our sins, by his suffering on the cross, he sits on Gods right hand, by obtaining the crown: he purged our sins by dying for them, he sits on Gods right hand, by ruling with him; what need we more? here is his passion and session in the same order he performed them, for then he sate down on the right hand of his Father, when he had by himself purged our sins.
THe point is not full, but to make it up, the Text stands compast with words of wonder, concerning the word, our Saviour; he that is the Sonne of God, heir of all things, creatour of the world, the brightnesse of his glory, the image of his person, and upholder of all things by the word of his power, stands here as the subject of humilitie and glory: he purged our sins, and sits on the right hand of the majesty on high. He purged our sins, by his suffering on the crosse, he sits on Gods right hand, by obtaining the crown: he purged our sinnes by dying for them, he sits on Gods right hand, by ruling with him; what need we more? here is his passion and session in the same order he performed them, for then he sate down on the right hand of his Father, when he had by himself purged our sins.
But to come nearer the words, they are as the drugs of an Apothecary, and we will examine the ingredients. O I am sick of love, saith the Church in Canticles, Cant. 5.8.1 Sick indeed, not of love only, but of sin also; a disease that infatuates the mind, gripes the conscience, distempers the humours, disturbs the ⟨p. 156⟩