A25250:449
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.
But how purged he? By himself? Was there none to associate him in this misery? no, he purged by himself] only, and that without a Partner. Comforter.
But how purged he? By himself? Was there none to associate him in this misery? no, he purged by himself] onely, and that without a Partner. Comforter.
First, without a partner, there was none that laid a finger in the burden of his Cross to ease him: why, Blessed Saviour, thou hast Myriads of Angels waiting on Thee, and can they not a little ⟨p. 154⟩lighten thy heavy yoke? No, the Angels are blessed, but they are finite and limited, and therefore unable to this expiation of sin.
First, without a partner, there was none that laid a finger in the burthen of his Crosse to ease him: why, Blessed Saviour, thou hast Myriads of Angels waiting on Thee, and can they not a little ⟨p. 154⟩lighten thy heavie yoke? No, the Angels are blessed, but they are finite and limited, and therefore unable to this expiation of sinne.
But what say we of the Saints? if you will believe the Rhemists, 1they can tell you that the sufferings of Saints (sanctified in Christs blood) have not only a forcible satisfaction for the Church, and its members; but withal they are the accomplishments of the wants of Christs passion; an horrible blasphemy: as if Christs were not sufficient in it self, but his wants must be supplied by the satisfaction of others; my Text tells me, Christ purged by himself,] therefore not by any other, but sufficiently in his own person; and as for that Text they urge against us,