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

First, in respect of the unregenerate: this is the first step of repentance; this is one of those paces that will lead you towards heaven. You may be sure, without repentance no heaven, without confession no repentance, and without finding out sin there can be no confession. It were good therefore, and a singular means to bring you out of corruption into Christianity, and out of the state of nature into the kingdom of grace, that you would every one of you have a Catalogue of your sins. If you will not, I can tell you who will, there is an adversary called ⟨p. 24⟩Satan (the adversary of mankind) that stands at your back, and (I may say figuratively) with a scroll in his hands, wherein he writes down your sins; not a day passeth on, but he can easily tell how many sins you have committed all day. Lord, that men would think on't! Are you about any sin? at that very time Satan is registering the act, and time and place, and every circumstance: now woe, woe to man, that lets Satan do his work for him! Would you do this your self, would you but study for a Catalogue of your own sins, that so you might confess them to God, and repent you thereof, this would be a dash in the devils book, so that he could not have whereof to accuse you; but if still you go on securely in sin, and never go about to call your sins to remembrance, a day will come (woe worth the day) when that roaring Lion shall set all your sins and transgressions in order before you: then shall you read (perforce) your sins original and actual, of omission and commission, of your bodies and souls. And I must tell you, herein is a great policy of Satan, he lets you alone in your security a while, if you will not trouble him, he will not trouble you; if you will not tell your own sins, neither will he tell you of them; but he will change his note (at furthest) when your few evil days finish: it is the very case as many creditors deal with their debtors, while they have any doings as they say, and are in trading, they will let them alone, in policy they will say nothing; but if once down the wind, in sickness, poverty, disgrace, or the like, then comes Serjeant after Serjeant, arrest upon arrest, action upon action: just thus is Satan's dealing with the unregenerate man;

First, in respect of the unregenerate: this is the first step of repentance; this is one of those paces that will lead you towards heaven. You may be sure, without repentance no heaven, without confession no repentance, and without finding out sin there can be no confession. It were good therefore, and a singular means to bring you out of corruption into Christianity, and out of the state of nature into the kingdome of grace, that you would everie one of you have a Catalogue of your sins. If you will not, I can tell you who will, there is an adversary called