A25250:579
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.
Use 1 Meditate then with what sweet delight every••• servant of God may bath himself before hand even in this valley of tears! Did we but think on this glori••• place, […] •hose heavenly mansions prepared for us, did we spend many thoughts upon it, and ever and anon sigh and seek after it until we came to the fingering and possession of it; O how would these heavenly meditations ravish our souls, as if Heaven […] before we entered into Heaven! Consider of this in what ••se soever we are, whether we are vexed, or injured, or oppressed, or persecuted for the name of Christ; there is nothing so embittered, that a thought of heaven will not sweeten: Yet I say not that w• are only to think of it, withal let us strive and strain to get into this golden City, where stre••• […] ••te• •nd all is gold and pearl; nay, where pearl […] no•hing worth in comparison of those things which shall be revealed unto […] faithful soul.
Ʋse 1 Meditate then with what sweet delight every••• servant of God may bath himself before hand even in this valley of tears! Did we but think on this glori••• place, 〈…〉 •hose heavenly mansions prepared for us, did we spend many thoughts upon it, and ever and anon sigh and seek after it until we came to the fingering and possession of it; O how would these heavenly meditations ravish our souls, as if Heaven 〈…〉 before we entred into Heaven! Consider of this in what ••se soever we are, whether we are vexed, or injured, or oppressed, or persecuted for the name of Christ; there is nothing so imbittered, that a thought of heaven will not sweeten: Yet I say not that w• are onely to think of it, withall let us strive and strain to get into this golden Citie, where stre te nd all is gold and pearl; nay, where pearl nohing worth in comparison of those things which shall be revealed unto faithfull soul.