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

I am so low, that unless we think him no body, we can down no lower; and yet here is one leap more, that if we take a view of it, we may suppose him to be nothing in esteem, a No-body indeed. Look we at every man in respect of God, and the Prophet tells us, All nations before him are as nothing, Isaiah. 40.17.¹ And if man be thus, why sure the son of man will be no less: see then (to the wondrous astonishment of men and Angels) how greatness it self,² to bring man from nothing, Exinanivit see, hath made himself nothing, or of no reputation, Phil. 2.7.³ How? nothing: yes, saith Beza; He that was all in all, hath reduced himself to that which is nothing at all: and Tertullian little less, Exhausit see, He hath emptied himself, or as our translation gives ⟨p. 151⟩it, He hath made himself (not of little, but) of no reputation.

I am so low, that unless we think him no body, we can down no lower; and yet here is one leap more, that if we take a view of it, we may suppose him to be nothing in esteem, a No-body indeed. Look we at every man in respect of God, and the Prophet tells us, All nations before him are as nothing, Esai. 40.17.¹ And if man be thus, why sure the son of man will be no lesse: see then (to the wondrous astonishment of men and Angels) how greatness it self,² to bring man from nothing, Exinanivit se, hath made himself nothing, or of no reputation, Phil. 2.7.