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

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.

2. The evils that we suffer may be ranked in this order; first, evils original fill up the scene, and what a multitude of evils do enter with them? No sooner had Adam sinned, but a world of miseries fell on man, so that as the infection, in like manner the punishment distils from him.¹ By one man (saith the Apostle) entered sin into the world: what, sin alone? no, but death ⟨p. 26⟩by sin, and so death went over all men Rom. 5.12. Infants themselves bring their damnation with them from their wombs; or if that be omitted, how many are the miseries of this life, as the fore-runners of that judgement? Look at the mind and what think ye of our ignorance, not only that of wilful disposition, but (as the Schools distinguish) of pure negation; if it be not a sin, what is it but a punishment for sin? that our understanding should be obscured and darkened, our knowledge in things natural wounded, in supernatural utterly extinguished: O the miserable issue of that monster Sin! But as evils come by heaps, so of the same parent here is another brood, Ignorance and Forgetfulness; and is not this a misery, after all our time and study to get a little knowledge, quickly to forget that we are so long a learning? Man in his whole state, before the fall, could not forget things taught him; but now (as the hour-glass) we receive in at the one ear, and it goes out at the other; or rather (like the sieve) we always keep the bran, but let the flour go, so apt are we to retain the bad, but we very easily forget the good. And is this all? nay, yet more evils; see but our affections, and to what a number of infinite sorrows, griefs, anguishes suspicions, fears, malices, jealousies, is the soul of man subject? So prone are we to these miserable passions, that upon any occasion we fall into them; or for want of cause from any other, we begin to be passionate with our selves: Why hast thou, O Lord, set me against thee? I am become irksome and burdensome even unto mine own self,