A25250:431
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.
But we must fall a note, the Creator is become a Creature; if you ask what Creature? I must tell you, though it were an Angel, yet this were a great leap, which no created understanding could measure; what are the Angels in respect of God? he is their Lord, they but his servants, ministers, messengers, and howsoever it would dazzle us to behold their faces, yet cannot the brightest Angels stand before God, but they are fain to cover their own faces with a pair of wings: the difference may appear in Revel. 5.13, 14.1 where the Lamb is said to sit upon the Throne, but the four Beasts and four and twenty Elders fall down and worship him. 2Is not here a great distance betwixt the Lamb in his Throne, and the Beasts at his feet? and yet thus far will the Lamb descend that for our sakes he will disthrone himself, reject his state, take the office of an Angel, to bring us the glad tidings of salvation in purging our sins.
But we must fall a note, the Creatour is become a Creature; if you ask what Creature? I must tell you, though it were an Angel, yet this were a great leap, which no created understanding could measure; what are the Angels in respect of God? he is their Lord, they but his servants, ministers, messengers, and howsoever it would dazle us to behold their faces, yet cannot the brightest Angels stand before God, but they are fain to cover their own faces with a pair of wings: the difference may appear in Revel. 5.13, 14.1 where the Lambe is said to sit upon the Throne, but the four Beasts and four and twenty Elders fall down and worship him. 2Is not here a great distance betwixt the Lamb in his Throne, and the Beasts at his feet? and yet thus farre will the Lamb descend that for our sakes he will disthrone himself, reject his state, take the office of an Angel, to bring us the glad tidings of salvation in purging our sinnes.