A25250:52
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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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.
consider your magnitude in all these dimensions; alas, how is it that many of you make your selves so great? what mean those titles which you take upon you? Your Greatness, Your Highness, your— I know not what. O consider the mortality of your bodies and that will tell you the just* scantling of your selves.
consider your magnitude in all these dimensions; alas, how is it that many of you make your selves so great? what mean those titles which you take upon you? Your Greatnesse, Your Highnesse, your— I know not what. O consider the mortalitie of your bodies and that will tell you the just* scantling of your selves.
- *Mors sola fatetur quantula sunt hominum corpuscula. Juvenal. Psal. 90.10.
2. For the multitude of our days, he was branded with the name of a fool, that thought he had many years to live. Moses tells us, The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Psal. 90.10. But now (as you heard) we value our life but at seven years, as if six years we had to labour, and to do all we had to do; but the seventh were a Sabbath to rest with God, Revel. 14.13.1 ⟨p. 16⟩nay yet the Scripture comes somewhat lower, and because a plurality might cause a security, it bestows but a unity upon our years, thus Jacob in this text reckons of a great number of one year, The days of the year of my life are an hundred and thirty year.