A25250:433
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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But how much lower? by a little (saith Paul) and if you would know what that little was, he tells you again, that he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham, Heb. 2.16.1 Here is that great abyss, which all the powers of heaven could no less but wonder at: Abraham's Lord is become Abraham's Son; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath took upon him the seed of Abraham, the seed of Isaac, and the seed of Jacob; wonder above wonders! that God should take the shape of Angels, is more then we can think, but to take on him the nature of man, is more then the tongue of Angels can express; that the King of heaven should leave his glorious mansion, and from the bosom of his Father come into the womb of his mother, from that company of Angels, and Arch-Angels, to a rude rout of sinful men: Tell ye the daughters of Zion, behold thy King cometh unto thee, saith the Prophet Isaiah in the 62. Chap. 11. vers. 2what could he less? and what canst thou more? wonderful love that he would come, but more wonderful is the manner of his coming; he that before made man a soul after the image of God, now makes himself a body after the image of man; and he that was more excellent then all Angels, becomes lesser, lower then the Angels, even a mortal, miserable, wretched man.
But how much lower? by a little (saith Paul) and if you would know what that little was, he tels you again, that he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham, Heb. 2.16.1 Here is that great abysse, which all the powers of heaven could no less but wonder at: Abrahams Lord is become Abrahams Son; the God of Abraham, the God of Jsaac, and the God of Iacob, hath took upon him the seed of Abraham, the seed of Isaac, and the seed of Iacob; wonder above wonders! that God should take the shape of Angels, is more then we can think, but to take on him the nature of man, is more then the tongue of Angels can express; that the King of heaven should leave his glorious mansion, and from the bosome of his Father come into the womb of his mother, from that company of Angels, and Arch-Angels, to a rude rout of sinfull men: Tell ye the daughters of Sion, behold thy King cometh unto thee, saith the Prophet Esay in the 62. Chap. 11. vers.