A25250:85
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To see a little the state of Gods own friends and children: Was not Abel murdered by his brother? Noah mocked by his son? Job scoffed by his wife? Eli slain for his sons? will you all at once? take one for all, and see Jacob our Patriarch, a notable example of extreme infelicity: he is threatened by his brother, banished from his father, abused •y his uncle, defrauded of his wife, was not here misery enough to break one heart? But after this, for another wives sake, see him enter into a new service,1 In the day he is consumed with heat, in the night with frost: an hard service sure! nay after this that he got his Rachel, see then a division betwixt her and Leah, two sisters brawling for one husband yet neither content, after both enjoyed him. Blessed Saint! how wast thou haunted with afflictions? yet after this, he agrees his wives, and they all run from their father, and now see a fresh pursuit; behind him, Laban follows which an Hue and Cry, before him Esau meets him with 400 men; to go forwards intolerable, to go backwards unavailable; which way then? It was an Angel of God, nay the God of Angels that now must comfort him.
To see a little the state of Gods own friends and children: Was not Abel murdered by his brother? Noah mocked by his sonne? Job scoffed by his wife? Eli slain for his sons? will you all at once? take one for all, and see Jacob our Patriarch, a notable example of extream infelicity: he is threatned by his brother, banished from his father, abused •y his uncle, defrauded of his wife, was not here miserie enough to break one heart? But after this, for another wives sake, see him enter into a new service,1 In the day he is consumed with heat, in the night with frost: an hard service sure! nay after this that he got his Rachel, see then a division betwixt her and Leah, two sisters brawling for one husband yet neither content, after both enjoyed him. Blessed Saint! how wast thou haunted with afflictions? yet after this, he agrees his wives, and they all run from their father, and now see a fresh pursuit; behind him, Laban follows which an Hue and Cry, before him Esau meets him with 400 men; to go forwards intolerable, to go backwards unavailable; which way then? It was an Angel of God, nay the God of Angels that now must comfort him.