A25250:411
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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First then he had his [Greek or Hebrew], his beginning, and that was the first time of his purging, even at his birth; then took he our infirmities upon him, and in some measure evacuated the brightness of his glory, to become for us a poor, a weak, a silly babe on earth. Mark (I pray) how this purge works with him at his first entrance into the world, it brings him into so poor and low estate that heaven and earth stand amazed at so great a change: where was he born, but at Bethlehem, a little city? where did the shepherds find him, but in a poor sorry cottage? and there if we look after majesty, we find no guard but Joseph, no attendants but Mary, no heralds but Shepherds, none of the bed-chamber but beasts and oxen, and howsoever he is styled King of the Jews, yet the Jews cry out, They have no King but Cesar. His mother indeed descended of kings, and he himself gives crowns to others, of victory, of life, of glory, but for his own head no crown is prepared but a crown of thorns: 1anon you may see him clothed in purple, anointed with spittle, but for the crown we speak of, they can afford him no richer then of the hedge, no easier then of thorns.
First then he had his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his beginning, and that was the first time of his purging, even at his birth; then took he our infirmities upon him, and in some measure evacuated the brightnesse of his glory, to become for us a poor, a weak, a silly babe on earth. Mark (I pray) how this purge works with him at his first entrance into the world, it brings him into so poor and low estate that heaven and earth stand amazed at so great a change: where was he born, but at Bethlehem, a little citie? where did the shepherds find him, but in a poor sory cottage? and there if we look after majestie, we find no guard but Joseph, no attendants but Mary, no heralds but Shepherds, none of the bed-chamber but beasts and oxen, and howsoever he is styled King of the Jews, yet the Jews cry out, They have no King but Cesar. His mother indeed descended of kings, and he himself gives crowns to others, of victory, of life, of glory, but for his own head no crown is prepared but a crown of thorns: 1anon you may see him clothed in purple, anointed with spittle, but for the crown we speak of, they can afford him no richer then of the hedge, no easier then of thorns.