A25250:537
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.
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Our Saviour defers not that he promises but as he quickly hears, and quickly grants, so he quickly gives him Paradise, and a kingdom. This sudden unexpected joy makes all more grateful; to tell us of Crowns and Kingdoms that we must inherit, and then to put us off with delays, abates the sweetness of the promise: men that go to suits for lands and livings, though Lawyers feed them with hopes, yet one order after another, spinning out time to a multitude of Terms, ⟨p. 205⟩makes them weary of the business: it is the happiness of this suitor that he comes to an hearing but the highest degree of his happiness was the expedition of his suit: no sooner he motions, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom; but the Lord gives him that he asks upon his first motion, to day, ere the Sun be down, the Kingdom shall be thine, thou shalt be with me in Paradise.
OUr Saviour deferres not that he promises but as he quickly hears, and quickly grants, so he quickly gives him Paradise, and a kingdome. This sudden unexspected joy makes all more gratefull; to tell us of Crowns and Kingdomes that we must inherit, and then to put us off with delayes, abates the sweetnesse of the promise: men that go to suits for lands and livings, though Lawyers feed them with hopes, yet one order after another, spinning out time to a multitude of Terms, ⟨p. 205⟩makes them weary of the businesse: it is the happinesse of this suitour that he comes to an hearing but the highest degree of his happiness was the expedition of his suit: no sooner he motions, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdome; but the Lord gives him that he asks upon his first motion, to day, ere the Sun be down, the Kingdome shall be thine, thou shalt be with me in Paradise.