A25250:419
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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1First, his soul, it began to be sorrowful, saith Matthew: to be amazed and very heavy saith Mark: to be in an agony saith Luke: to be troubled saith John: Here is sorrow, and heaviness, and agony, and trouble, the estimate whereof we may take from his own words in the garden; My soul is exceeding sorrowful, 2even unto death: Now was the time he purged, not only in his body, but his soul too; now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour. A fatal hour sure, of which it was said before often, his hour was not yet come, but being come, he could then tell his Disciples, the hour is at hand, and after tell the Jews, 3this is your very hour, and the power of darkness: Now was it that Christ yielded his soul for our souls, to the susception of sorrow, perpession of pain, and dissolution of nature: and therefore even sick with sorrow, he never left sweating, 4weeping and crying, till he was heard in that which he feared.
1First, his soul, it began to be sorrowfull, saith Matthew: to be amazed and very heavy saith Mark: to be in an agony saith Luke: to be troubled saith Iohn: Here is sorrow, and heaviness, and agony, and trouble, the estimate whereof we may take from his own words in the garden; My soul is exceeding sorrowfull, 2even unto death: Now was the time he purged, not onely in his body, but his soul too; now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour. A fatall hour sure, of which it was said before often, his hour was not yet come, but being come, he could then tell his Disciples, the hour is at hand, and after tell the Iewes, 3this is your very hour, and the power of darkness: Now was it that Christ yielded his soul for our souls, to the susception of sorrow, perpession of pain, and dissolution of nature: and therefore even sick with sorrow, he never left sweating,