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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 if not Angels, or Saints, what say we of good Works? ⟨p. 155⟩Cannot they expiate sin? yea, say our adversaries, they are meritorious, and applicatory; and expiatory, so here is a threefold use of them; what? hath Christ purged by himself? and is there any other means whatsoever to expiate sin? no saith the Apostle, so incompatible are these two, his grace, and our works, that if it be of grace, it is no more of works, 1or else grace were no more grace; and if it be of works, it is no more grace, or else works were no more works. By grace then ye are saved— not of works, lest any man should boast himself, Ephes. 2.8, 9.2
But if not Angels, or Saints, what say we of good Works? ⟨p. 155⟩Cannot they expiate sinne? yea, say our adversaries, they are meritorious, and applicatory; and expiatorie, so here is a threefold use of them; what? hath Christ purged by himself? and is there any other means whatsoever to expiate sinne? no saith the Apostle, so incompatible are these two, his grace, and our works, that if it be of grace, it is no more of works, 1or else grace were no more grace; and if it be of works, it is no more grace, or else works were no more works. By grace then ye are saved— not of works, lest any man should boast himself, Ephes. 2.8, 9.2