A25250:65
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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Look at our omission of good duties, and come they not in like moats in the Sun? How many alms have we denied? How many blessings have we refused? How many Sermons have we neglected? How many Lords days have we mis-spent? This was the sin of that rich man, of whom though Lazarus had no hurt, yet because he could receive no good therefore he was tormented in that flame. You know a day vvill come,1 when a bill of negatives shall be framed against the wicked, not what ye have done, but what ye have not done: I was hungry, 2and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a ⟨p. 20⟩stranger, and ye lodged me not; I was naked, and ye clothed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not, Matth. 5.42. It is the not doing your duties must incur that heavy sentence,3 Depart from me ye cursed. Mere harmless men are no fit members for Gods kingdom; if you mean to avoid evil, you must neglect no good: alas, who would slip any occasion, that considers the just reward of this evil of omission.
Look at our omission of good duties, and come they not in like moats in the Sun? How many alms have we denied? How many blessings have we refused? How many Sermons have we neglected? How many Lords dayes have we mis-spent? This was the sinne of that rich man, of whom though Lazarus had no hurt, yet because he could receive no good therefore he was tormented in that flame. You know a day vvill come,1 vvhen a bill of negatives shall be framed against the vvicked, not vvhat ye have done, but vvhat ye have not done: I was hungry, 2and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a ⟨p. 20⟩stranger, and ye lodged me not; I was naked, and ye cloathed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not,