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

You have seen the beginning and increase, and we'll now draw the Curtains, that you may behold the Bridegroom where he lieth at Noon day, to wit, in the state or vigour of his grievous sufferings.

You have seen the beginning and increase, and we'll now draw the Curtains, that you may behold the Bridegroom where he lyeth at Noon day, to wit, in the state or vigour of his grievous sufferings.

This state, or Akmen (say Physicians) is when nature and the disease are in greatest contention, when all the symptoms are become most vehement, so that neither nature or the infirmity, must ⟨p. 160⟩needs, have the victory; and although (say Divines) all Christs life was full of miseries, ¹yet principally and chiefly is, that called his passion in Scripture, which he endured two days before death: and to this extreme passion (saith a Modern) is the purging of sins chiefly attributed. Come then, ye that pass by, behold, and see, if there was ever any sorrow like unto this sorrows; which is done unto him in the day of Gods anger. ²His infirmities are now at full, and the symptoms which make it evident unto us, are some inward, some outward, inward in his soul, outward in his body: we'll take a view of them both.

This state, or Akmen (say Physitians) is when nature and the disease are in greatest contention, when all the symptomes are become most vehement, so that neither nature or the infirmity, must ⟨p. 160⟩needs, have the victory; and although (say Divines) all Christs life was full of miseries, ¹