A25250:454
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.
Thus far you have seen Christ purging without a partner, 1he trod the winepress alone, and there was none to help him; but ô the bitterness of this purge that admits of no help, no ease; as he had no partner to help him, so no Comforter to cheer him in his so lamentable sufferings.
Thus farre you have seen Christ purging without a partner, 1he trod the winepresse alone, and there was none to help him; but ô the bitternesse of this purge that admits of no help, no ease; as he had no partner to help him, so no Comforter to chear him in his so lamentable sufferings.
Some ease it is to have one or other touched with the sense of our miseries, and if they cannot help us,1 yet to do what they can (be it only to condole us) it were a comfortable refreshing; ⟨p. 172⟩ay, but our Saviour finds no refreshing at all, he purged by himself, without a Partner, without a Comforter; not any one one earth or in heaven, that afforded his poor heart any cure or cordial. First, look on earth, for to them doth he address that speech in Lamentations, 2is it nothing to you all ye that pass by? the most grievous torments find some mitigation in the supply of friends, and what friends hath our Saviour to comfort him in his torments?