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

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, Coloss. 1.24.² Now rejoice I in my sufferings for you, and fulfil the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church; whence they argue these two points, first the want of Christs sufferings, and secondly, the abounding of Saints sufferings for the satisfaction of others. To the first we answer, that the afflictions of Christ, which the Apostle saith, I fulfil, are not meant of the afflictions which Christ suffered in his Person,