A25250:423
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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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.
Use 1 But what use of all this? Give me leave (I pray) to shake the tree, and then do you gather the fruit: from the first part, his birth, we may learn Humility, a grace most prevailing with God for the obtaining of all graces; this was it that made David King, Moses a Governor: nay, what say we to Christ himself, who from his first entrance, until his departure to his Father,1 was the very mirror of true Humility it self? Learn of me (saith he) to be humble and lowly in spirit, and you shall find rest unto your souls. Hereunto accorded his Doctrine, when he pronounced them Blessed who were poor in spirit, 2hereunto accorded his reprehension, when he disliked their manners who were wont to choose out the chief rooms at feasts: 3hereunto accorded his practice, when he vouchsafed to wash his Disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. O Humility, how great are thy riches, that are thus commended to us! thou pleasest men, delightest angels, confoundest devils, and bringest thy Creator to a Manger, where he is lapped in rags, and clothed in flesh! Had we Christian hearts to consider the Humility of our Redeemer, and how far he was from our haughty dispositions, it would pull down our Pharisaical humours, and make us far better to remember our selves.
Ʋse 1 But what use of all this? Give me leave (I pray) to shake the tree, and then do you gather the fruit: from the first part, his birth, we may learn Humility, a grace most prevailing with God for the obtaining of all graces; this was it that made David King, Moses a Governour: nay, what say we to Christ himself, who from his first entrance, untill his departure to his Father,1 was the very mirrour of true Humility it felf? Learn of me (saith he) to be humble and lowly in spirit, and you shall find rest unto your souls. Hereunto accorded his Doctrine, when he pronounced them Blessed who were poor in spirit, 2hereunro accorded his reprehension, when he disliked their manners who were wont to choose out the chief rooms at feasts: