A25250:574
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Nor is this all; for the glory of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light thereof; besides the native lustre, there is the glory of God, the glory of all glories; this is it for which Moses prayed, O Lord, I beseech thee show me thy glory; to whom God answered, thou canst not see my face and live, —but I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, 1and will cover thee with my hand while my glory passeth by; then will I take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. And if Moses face shone so bright with seeing Gods back-parts, that the Israelites were afraid to come nigh him, and that he was fain to cover his face with a veil while he spake unto them, 2how bright then is Paradise, not only lightened with the back-parts of God, but with his own divine glory? From the majesty of God (saith a modern) there goes out a created light, 3that makes the whole City glitter, and this being communicated to the Saints, God thereby causeth that they see him fully face to face.
Nor is this all; for the glorie of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light thereof; besides the native lustre, there is the glorie of God, the glory of all glories; this is it for which Moses prayed, O Lord, I beseech thee shew me thy glory; to whom God answered, thou canst not see my face and live, —but I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, 1and will cover thee with my hand while my glory passeth by; then will I take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. And if Moses face shone so bright with seeing Gods back-parts, that the Israelites were afraid to come nigh him, and that he was fain to cover his face with a veil while he spake unto them, 2how bright then is Paradise, not onely lightened with the back-parts of God, but with his own divine glory? From the majestie of God (saith a modern) there goes out a created light, 3that makes the whole Citie glitter, and this being communicated to the Saints, God thereby causeth that they see him fully face to face.