A25250:457
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 delivered to the Jews, sure it is well enough; he is their Country-man, Kinsman, of the stock of Abraham, of the Tribe of Judah, of the Family of Joseph; but this rather aggravates then allays his misery, that his own people should degenerate into Traitors: not a Gentile, but a Jew to be his Executioner: what torment had not been a lenitive, and a recreation in comparison of this? Daniels Den, the three Children's Furnace, Essays wooden Saw, Israels fiery Serpents, the Spanish Inquisition, the Romish Purgatory, are all as far short in torture, as the last of them in truth, to the malice of a Jew, witness our Saviours death, when they all conspired not ⟨p. 173⟩only to scourge him, mock him, buffet him, slay him; but to slay him in such a manner, as to hang him on nails, and to make the Cross his Gibbet,
But if delivered to the Iewes, sure it is well enough; he is their Country-man, Kinsman, of the stock of Abraham, of the Tribe of Juda, of the Family of Ioseph; but this rather aggravates then allaies his misery, that his own people should degenerate into Traitors: not a Gentile, but a Jew to be his Executioner: what torment had not been a lenitive, and a recreation in comparison of this? Daniels Den, the three Childrens Furnace, Esays wooden Saw, Israels fiery Serpents, the Spanish Inquisition, the Romish Purgatory, are all as far short in torture, as the last of them in truth, to the malice of a Iew, witness our Saviours death, when they all conspired not ⟨p. 173⟩onely to scourge him, mock him, buffet him, slay him; but to slay him in such a manner, as to hang him on nailes, and to make the Cross his Gibbet,
But what? no comforter amongst them all? do the Gentiles condemn him? will the Jews crucify him? and is there none to pity him? Yes, what say we of his Disciples, that heard him, followed him,1