A25250:86
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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And yet again after his first entry into his own country, his wife Rachel dies, his daughter Dinah is ravished his son Reuben lies with his concubine, and if the defiling of a wife be so great a grief to the husband, what sorrow and shame, when the wickedness is committed by a mans own son? what can we more? If ye his heart be unbroken, here's another grief great enough to match all the rest, his son, his Joseph (they report) is lost, and what news hears he of him, but that he is torn with ⟨p. 29⟩wild beasts? and now see a man of miseries indeed!1 He rends his clothes, he puts sackcloth about his loins, he will not be comforted, but surely (saith he) I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Alas poor Jacob! what can they say to comfort him? To comfort, said I? nay, yet hear the tidings of a new misfortune, a famine is begun, and another of his sons is kept in prison: What a grief is here? Another in prison, and nothing to redeem him but his only Benjamin; 2here is the loss of son after son, Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin, all these things are against me. We need no more, if Jacob thus number, how many are the miseries he did daily suffer? would you have the sum? He himself the best witness of himself, affirms it to Pharaoh, Evil, Evil. Few and Evil] have the days of the years of my life been.
And yet again after his first entry into his own countrey, his wife Rachel dies, his daughter Dinah is ravished his sonne Reuben lies with his concubine, and if the defiling of a wife be so great a grief to the husband, what sorrow and shame, when the wickednesse is committed by a mans own son? what can we more? If ye his heart be unbroken, here's another grief great enough to match all the rest, his sonne, his Joseph (they report) is lost, and what news hears he of him, but that he is torn with ⟨p. 29⟩wild beasts? and now see a man of miseries indeed!1 He rends his clothes, he puts sackcloth about his loyns, he will not be comforted, but surely (saith he) I will go down into the grave unto my sonne mourning. Alas poor Jacob! what can they say to comfort him? To comfort, said I? nay, yet hear the tidings of a new misfortune, a famine is begun, and another of his sonnes is kept in prison: What a grief is here? Another in prison, and nothing to redeem him but his onely Benjamin;