A25250:447
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Right Purgatory. › By himself]Right Purgatorie. › By himself]
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.
The Time and Physician have prepared a Purge; but who is the Patient to receive it? it is man is sick, and it is man must purge, or otherwise he dies without all remedy or recovery: but alas! what Purge (what Purgatory) must that be which can evacuate sin? Should man take all the virtue of herbs and minerals, and distil them into one sublime and purest quintessence, yet impossible were it to wash away sin: or the least dregs of its corruption: Not Galen nor Hippocrates, nor all the Artists, or Naturalists that ever lived on earth could find out, or invent any remedy for sin; this must be a work of Grace, and not of Nature; yea, and such a grace as neither man nor Angel could afford: Behold then who it is that both administers and takes the receipt prepared; it is man that sinned, and God is become man, that so being both, he might administer it as God, and receive it as man, the same Person, being Physician and Patient, Compounder and Purger.
THe Time and Physician have prepared a Purge; but who is the Patient to receive it? it is man is sick, and it is man must purge, or otherwise he dies without all remedie or recoverie: but alas! what Purge (what Purgatory) must that be which can evacuate sinne? Should man take all the virtue of herbs and mineralls, and distill them into one sublime and purest quintessence, yet impossible were it to wash away sinne: or the least dregs of its corruption: Not Galen nor Hippocrates, nor all the Artists, or Naturalists that ever lived on earth could find out, or invent any remedie for sinne; this must be a work of Grace, and not of Nature; yea, and such a grace as neither man nor Angel could afford: Behold then who it is that both administers and takes the receipt prepared; it is man that sinned, and God is become man, that so being both, he might administer it as God, and receive it as man, the same Person, being Physician and Patient, Compounder and Purger.
But, what a wonder is this? Are we a-dying, and must he purge for it? can Physic given to the sound, heal the party that is sick? It was the saying of our Saviour,1 The whole need not the Physician, but they that are sick, and Christ Jesus for his part is whole indeed, No fault in this man, saith Pilate;