Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things

And yet there is a lower fall, How many hired servants (said the Prodigal) at my fathers house have bread enough, ¹and I die for hunger? and as if our Saviours case were like the Prodigals, you may see him little lower then a servant, yea little better then a beggar: Ye know (saith the Apostle) the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, 2 Cor. 8.9.² poor indeed, and so poor, that he was not worth a penny to pay tribute, till he had borrowed it of a fish, Mat. 17.27.³ See him in his birth, in his life, in his death, and what was he but a pilgrim, that never had house to harbour in? a while he lodges in an oxen-stall, thence he flies into Egypt, back he comes into Galilee, anon he travels to Jerusalem, within a while (as if all his life were but a wandering) you may ⟨p. 165⟩see him on mount Calvary hanging on the cross, was ever any beggars life more miserable? he hath no house, no money, no friends, no lands, and howsoever he was God the disposer of all; yet for us he became man, a poor man, a mean man, yea the meanest of all men: and this another step downwards.

And yet there is a lower fall, How many hired servants (said the Prodigall) at my fathers house have bread enough, ¹and I die for hunger? and as if our Saviours case were like the Prodigals, you may see him little lower then a servant, yea little better then a beggar: Yee know (saith the Apostle) the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, 2 Cor. 8.9.²