A25250:80
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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Thirdly, it is necessary in times of desertion, or visitation: yea, if the Lord shall please to exercise you with any cross, or disgrace, or discountenance, loss of goods, disease of body, terror of soul, or the like; you may be sure as no misery comes but for sin, so then the enumeration of your sins from a bleeding broken heart, is the prime and first means to cause that Sun of mercy to break through the clouds, and to beget a clear day; alas, our days are evil, and sure we have as good reason as ever Jacob had to confess it: for my part, though I keep my catalogue to my self, yet in the general I cannot but confess to you all, My days have been evil, evil, evil: Few and evil.
Thirdly, it is necessarie in times of desertion, or visitation: yea, if the Lord shall please to exercise you with any crosse, or disgrace, or discountenance, losse of goods, disease of bodie, terrour of soul, or the like; you may be sure as no miserie comes but for sinne, so then the enumeration of your sinns from a bleeding broken heart, is the prime and first means to cause that Sun of mercie to break through the clouds, and to beget a clear day; alas, our dayes are evil, and sure we have as good reason as ever Jacob had to confess it: for my part, though I keep my catalogue to my self, yet in the generall I cannot but confesse to you all, My dayes have been evil, evil, evil: Few and evil.
And now we have done with the work, it rests that you should know your wages; there be days of sin, and then days of sorrow; as you have spent your days, so must you have your rewards; first we trespass, and then we pay for it; first we sin, and then we suffer evil.
And now we have done with the work, it rests that you should know your wages; there be dayes of sinn, and then dayes of sorrow; as you have spent your dayes, so must you have your rewards; first we trespasse, and then we pay for it; first we sin, and then we suffer evil.