A25250:78
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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First, to humble you: for no sooner shall the poor soul look on all the sins he hath committed, both before and after ⟨p. 25⟩his regeneration, but confessing them in prayer, it will pull down his heart, and make the wound of his remorse to bleed a fresh, as before: and therefore this catalogue is most necessary in days of humiliation.
First, to humble you: for no sooner shall the poor soul look on all the sinnes he hath committed, both before and after ⟨p. 25⟩his regeneration, but confessing them in prayer, it will pull down his heart, and make the wound of his remorse to bleed a fresh, as before: and therefore this catalogue is most necessary in dayes of humiliation.
Secondly, it is necessary to prepare you for the receiving of the Sacrament; for indeed I would have none to presume to taste on that Supper, but first to view over all his sins, and to confess them in payer to his heavenly Father: there be many that in Confession look on their sins, as they do on the stars in a dark cloudy night, they can see none but the great ones, of the first or second magnitude, it may be here one and there one; but if they were truly enlightened, and informed aright, they might rather behold their sins, as those innumerable stars that appear in a fair frosty winters night; they are many, and many: and therefore take a little pains in composing your catalogue, that so you may confess all (at least for the kinds) before you presume to come near that Table of the Lord.
Secondly, it is necessarie to prepare you for the receiving of the Sacrament; for indeed I would have none to presume to taste on that Supper, but first to view over all his sinnes, and to confess them in payer to his heavenly Father: there be many that in Confession look on their sinns, as they do on the stars in a dark cloudie night, they can see none but the great ones, of the first or second magnitude, it may be here one and there one; but if they were truly illightened, and informed aright, they might rather behold their sinns, as those innumerable stars that appear in a fair frostie winters night; they are many, and many: and therefore take a little pains in composing your catalogue, that so you may confess all (at least for the kinds) before you presume to come near that Table of the Lord.