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

If you say the Gentiles; I must confess he found faith in some, and a seeming favour from others: the Centurion is witness of the one, of whom our Saviour himself confessed, I have not found so great faith no not in Israel, Matth. 8.10.¹ and Pilate gives a token of the other, when he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just man, Matth. 27, 24² but alas! did Pilate so favour him as to free him? no, he fears to condemn him being innocent, and yet dares not absolve him, being so envied as he was by the Jews; what then can a little water? what can Jordans floods? what can rivers of wine, and oil do, towards the washing of those hands, that had power to release him and would not? he knew they had delivered him of envy, Matth. 27.18.³ he confesses, I find no fault in this man, Luk. 23.14.⁴ he tells him that he had power to crucify him, and he had power to loose him, John 19.10.⁵ and yet fondly would he wash away the guilt of his unjust sentence, with a little water on his hands; no Pilate, that ceremony cannot wash away thy sin, that sin I mean, which thou and the Gentiles in thee committed, in delivering of Jesus to the will of the Jews.⁶

If you say the Gentiles; I must confess he found faith in some, and a seeming favour from others: the Centurion is witness of the one, of whom our Saviour himself confessed, I have not found so great faith no not in Israel,