A25250:421
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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We have thus far seen our Sun (the Sun of righteousness) in the day-break, and rising, and height of his suffering:1 what remains further, but that we come to the Declination, and so end our journey for this time?
We have thus far seen our Sun (the Sunne of righteousnesse) in the day-break, and rising, and height of his suffering:1 what remains further, but that we come to the Declination, and so end our journey for this time?
- 1Mal. 4.2.
This Declination (say Physicians) is,1 when Nature overcomes sickness, so that all diseases attain not this time, but those, and those only that admit of a Recovery: yet howsoever (saith my* Author) there is no true declination before death: there is at least a seeming declination, when sometimes the symptoms may become more remiss, because of weak nature yielding to the fury and tyranny of death overcoming it. I will not say directly, that our Saviour declined thus, either in deed, or in show: for neither was the cup removed from him, nor died he by degrees; but in perfect sense, and perfect patience both of body and soul, he did voluntarily, and miraculously resign his Spirit (as he was praying) into the hands of his Father. Here then was the true declination of this Patient, not before death, but in death, and rightly too: for then was it that this Sun went down in a ruddy ⟨p. 162⟩