A25250:504
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
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1. Take it, for as the best plaster if not laid to, can cure no wound; so Christ himself, and all his precious merits are of no virtue to him that will not apply them by faith: when you hear the Gospel preached, believe it on your parts, believe Christ is yours, believe that he lived, and died, and sorrowed, and suffered, and all this for you, to purge your souls of your sins.
1. Take it, for as the best plaister if not laid to, can cure no wound; so Christ himself, and all his precious merits are of no virtue to him that will not apply them by faith: when you hear the Gospel preached, believe it on your parts, believe Christ is yours, believe that he lived, and died, and sorrowed, and suffered, and all this for you, to purge your souls of your sinnes.
2. But having taken it; you must secondly keep it; as men take Physic, not only in belief that it will do them good, but in hope to keep it by the virtue and strength of the retentive parts; so we take Christ by faith, but we retain him by holiness: these two, faith and holiness, are those two bonds wherewith Christ is united unto us, and we unto Christ: so that if we be of this number, then truly may we say that he purged our sins: for the both died for us, and by virtue of our faith and holiness through him, his death is applied to us; to us I say, not in any general acception, but as we are of the number of his Saints, for we had sinned, and they were our sins] only that he effectually purged, and washed away.
2. But having taken it; you must secondly keep it; as men take Physick, not onely in belief that it will do them good, but in hope to keep it by the virtue and strength of the retentive parts; so we take Christ by faith, but we retain him by holiness: these two, faith and holiness, are those two bonds wherewith Christ is united unto us, and we unto Christ: so that if we be of this number, then truly may we say that he purged our sinnes: for the both died for us, and by virtue of our faith and holinesse through him, his death is applied to us; to us I say, not in any generall acception, but as we are of the number of his Saints, for we had sinned, and they were our sinnes] onely that he effectually purged, and washed away.