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

And if these be our outward, what be those inward evils? should I thrust my hand into your bosoms, O how leprous should I pluck it out again! that Understanding created full of light,¹ is now so blind, that it perceives not the things of the spirit of God, neither can it know them, for they are spiritually discerned. No doubt there is in us a remaining spark of Nature, and that is the light of reason which makes us men; but if you look at this ⟨p. 21⟩reason, it perceives only natural and external things; it can perceive thy house adorned, thy lands tilled, thy grounds stocked; but those spiritual blessings, celestial promises, eternal privileges, it cannot see, nor so much as think of: What are all our thoughts but vanity, and imagination of mans heart, but only evil, Gen. 8.21.² Neither is this all, God framing mans soul, planted in it two faculties, the Understanding that informeth, and the Will that followeth: and as the Understanding, so is the Will; it receives from Reason (her Counsellor) sensual advice, and sends forth to the Affections (her Courtiers) injunctions of vanity; here is a Counsellor indeed, what is it but reason without reason? and here is a will indeed, what is it but a slave to sin, without any will to good? Man is so holden captive with the yoke of sin, that of his own nature he can neither aspire by desire nor travel by endeavour to any goodness. ³I say not, but (as Bernard) to will is in us all, but to will evil is of nature, to will good is of grace, away then with our abilities, and confess we with the Apostle, that to will is present with me, but I find no means to perform that which is good, Rom. 7.18.⁴

And if these be our outward, what be those inward evils? should I thrust my hand into your bosomes, O how leprous should I pluck it out again! that Ʋnderstanding created full of light,