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

And yet if his Apostles leave him, what say we to Mary his mother, and other his friends? these indeed wait on him, seeing, sighing, wailing, weeping, but alas! what do those tears but increase his sorrows? might he not justly say with Paul, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? Act. 21.13.¹ Pity, and of all other feminine pity, it is the poorest, helpless salve of misery; but howsoever it was to others, this was so far from any ⟨p. 174⟩salve to him, as 'tis one of his greatest, tenderest sores about him:² Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your selves, and your children. O see the wonder of compassion which he bears to others in his passion; he hath more care of the women that follow him weeping, then on his own mangled self, that reels along fainting and bleeding even unto death, the tears that drop from their eyes is more to him, then all the blood in his veins, and therefore careless (as it were) of his own sacred person, he turns about his blessed bleeding face to the weeping women,³ affording them looks and words too of compassion, of consolation, weep not for me, but weep for your selves and your children: But O blessed Saviour, didst thou flow unto us in showers of Blood, and may not we drop a tear for all those purple streams of thine? yes Lord, thou dost not here forbid us weeping, only thou turnest the stream of our tears the right way; that is to say, homewards into our own bosoms, pointing us to our sins, the truest cause of thy sufferings.

And yet if his Apostles leave him, what say we to Mary his mother, and other his friends? these indeed wait on him, seeing, sighing, wailing, weeping, but alas! what do those tears but increase his sorrows? might he not justly say with Paul, What mean yee to weep and to break my heart? Act. 21.13.¹