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

First, in regard of his miseries, he was a Thief condemned and crucified: we read of four kinds of deaths in use amongst the Jews, strangling, stoning, fire and the sword: the Cross was a death whether for the pain, the shame, the curse, far above all other: we may see it in that gradation of the Apostle, He became obedient to death, even to the death of the Cross, Phil. 2.8.¹ What engine of torture was that? it spins out pain, it slows his death, yet a little and a little till it be more then any man can think: see his hands bored, his feet nailed, his legs broken, every part full of pain from top to toe, and thus hangs this Thief, the poise of his body every moment increasing his pain, and his own weight becoming his own affliction; in this case were not a quick riddance his best remedy? were not the news of death better then a lingering life? Lo then to his eternal comfort, Christ our Saviour (in the same condemnation) grants him his desire: What would he have? a dispatch of pain? he shall have it this day] as Samuel's appearance said to Saul, To morrow (yea, to day) thou shalt be with me.²

First, in regard of his miseries, he was a Thief condemned and crucified: we read of foure kinds of deaths in use amongst the Jews, strangling, stoning, fire and the sword: the Crosse was a death whether for the pain, the shame, the curse, farre above all other: we may see it in that gradation of the Apostle, He became obedient to death, even to the death of the Crosse, Phil. 2.8.¹ What engine of torture was that? it spins out pain, it slowes his death, yet a little and a little till it be more then any man can think: see his hands bored, his feet nayled, his legs broken, every part full of pain from top to toe, and thus hangs this Thief, the poyz of his body every moment increasing his pain, and his own weight becoming his own affliction; in this case were not a quick riddance his best remedie? were not the news of death better then a lingring life? Lo then to his eternall comfort, Christ our Saviour (in the same condemnation) grants him his desire: What would he have? a dispatch of pain? he shall have it this day] as Samuels appearance said to Saul, To morrow (yea, to day) thou shalt be with me.