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

Both these are evil; Sin, as the father, plays the Bankrupt;¹ and Punishment, the son, must pay the debt: first, Lust conceives and brings forth sin, then sin being finished brings forth death. Here is both the work and wages, first we commit, and then we suffer evil.

Both these are evil; Sinne, as the father, playes the Bankrupt;¹ and Punishment, the sonne, must pay the debt: first, Lust conceives and brings forth sinne, then sinne being finished brings forth death. Here is both the work and wages, first we commit, and then we suffer evil.

1. 1Jam. 1.15.

The evils we commit are sins, and see what a troop of enemies march about us; if you expect the battle in array, what ⟨p. 19⟩say you to those evils original? these are the inheritance which we have from our first parents; it is the same infection that distilled from them abides in us, and therefore the same punishment is due to us, that fell on them. O the flood-gate of evils that now are opened! Adams sin is ours by imputation, we are twigs of one root, streams of one fountain, and by the same reason partakers of one sin. And as no evil is alone, so besides that imputed, we have another inherent, this is the proclive disposition that we have to evil, because of the loss of those powers that we had to good; First, ¹the sin of the person infected nature but now the sin of nature infects the person: Is not the mind doubtful of the ways of God? Is not the will prone to all manner of evil? Are not the affections disordered in their actions? But as for goodness, and holiness, and virtue, and grace, and temperance, and innocency, all these ornaments are lost; Adam received them for himself and us, and therefore lost them from us, as from himself: what wonder, if we being spoiled, nature be left naked; a rotten root must needs bear rotten branches; and if the first man be infected with sin, what follows, but a corruption of the whole nature of man?