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

Some there are, that howsoever Christ, and heaven, and salvation be offered unto them, yet so close do they stick and adhere to their sins, that they are loath to leave them, and they hope God is so merciful, that they can have Christ and their sins too. Alas deceive not your selves, though the dearness, and sweetness, and freeness, and generality of Christs offers be a doctrine most true, & we propound it unto you as a motive and encouragement to bring you in; yet not so much as one drop of all that bottomless depth of Christs mercy and bounty doth as yet belong unto any that lie in the state of unregeneratenesse, or in any kind of hypocrisy whatsoever. Away then with this presumption, & bethink you what a grievous and fearful sin you commit time after time, and day after day in neglecting so great salvation, by choosing (upon a free offer of his soul saving blood) to cleave rather to a lust (O horrible indignity!) then to Christ Jesus blessed for ever: what height and perfection of madness is this, that whereas a man, but renouncing his base, rotten, transitory pleasures, might have Christ Jesus, and with him a full and free discharge of hell pains, a sure and known right to heavens joys; yet: should in cold blood most wickedly and willingly, after so many entreaties, invitations, and offers, refuse this mighty change? Heaven and Earth may be astonished, Angels and all creatures may justly be amazed at this prodigious sottishness, and monstrous madness of such miserable men: they are the words of a late Divine, The World (saith he) is wont to call Gods people precise fools, because they are willing to sell all they have, for that one Pearl of great price, to part with profits, pleasures, preferments, their right hand, their right eye, every thing, any thing, rather then to leave Jesus Christ: but who do ⟨p. 190⟩[…] ⟨p. 191⟩[…] ⟨p. 192⟩you think now are the true and great fools of the world? and who are likeliest one day to groan for anguish of spirit, and say within themselves, ¹This was he whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach; we fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour, now is he numbered amongst the Children of God, and his lot is among the Saints: