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land_n	famine_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	1,487	5	10.4663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25250	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.; Prima, media, & ultima. Ultima.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2970; ESTC R27187	201,728	236

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 Deut. 32.29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Ecclus. 7.36 Whatsoever thou takest in hand remember the end and thou shalt never do amiss LONDON Printed for J. A. and are to be sold by Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Reader READER NOt to stay thee too long at the doore come in and thou mayst in this fabrick see these severall partitions Here is Mans misery in his Life Ser. 1. Death Ser. 2. Judgement Ser. 3. The Execution Ser. 4. Gods mercie in our Redemption Ser. 5. Salvation Ser. 6. The first part may bring thee to a sight and sense and sorrow for sin the second to a sight of Christ and a comfort in Christ and these are the principall means of conversion Nor is the work unprofitable if thou beest converted use them as daily Meditations and they will keep thee from sin and help thee towards heaven One of our Worthies can tell thee that Nothing more strongly bends men to sin then securitie or incogitancie of these things If thou ask what things he answers The end of our creation and redemption the certaintie of death the uncertaintie of life the severe account we must give the just retribution we shall have the miserie of the damned in hell the blessedness of the Saints in heaven these things being sadly and frequently thought upon would quench our burnings and lustings after sinne And true thou mayest find it that such good thoughts and an inordinate life are scarce consistible Will you hear another A serious and fruitfull meditation on these things so blessed M. Bolton hath ever been holden very materiall and of speciall moment to make us by Gods blessing more humble unworldly provident and prepared for the evil day And I take it every one of these following subjects would be an excellent theam or matter for our deliberate meditation See the Middle things Chap. 7. Sect. 4. Read then and practise these Meditations and I trust by these means thy end will be Heavens happiness So ends this work and to that end solely next to Gods glory I built it for thee Farewell Thine in all services I may for thy souls salvation I. A. Lifes Lease GEN. 47.9 Few and evil have the dayes of my life been WHen Pharaoh was Egypts King Joseph Pharaohs Steward and Jacob Josephs father there was a great famine which Pharaoh had dreamed Joseph fore-told and Iacob suffered God that sent Ioseph to Pharaoh brings Iacob to Ioseph the same providence so disposing of all that yet some food must be in Egypt when nothing was found in all the land of Canaan Thither come welcome as you may see in the storie Pharaoh salutes Iacob with this question What is thy age How many are thy dayes How many alas but few what are they alas but evil Thus we find Iacob at his Arithmetick the bill is short and the number but a cyphar Will you hear him cast his accounts First they are dayes and without all rules of falshood by subtraction few by addition full of evil contract all and this is the sum of all Few and evil have the dayes of my live been This Text briefly is the Lease of Iacobs life God the chief Lord inricht his substance yet limits the grant of his time will you question the Lease for what time no more but my life saith Iacob but a life what years no years but dayes saith Iacob but dayes how many not many but few saith Iacob but few how good not good but evil saith Iacob who can blaze the arms of life that finds not in it Crosse and Croslet the lease but a life the tearm but dayes the number few the nature evil nay when all is done we see all is out of date the dayes are not but are past they have been Few and evil have the dayes of my life been We must you see invert the Text and begin with that on which all hangs it is but my life saith Iacob Life VVOuld you know what is that take but a view of Nature and Scripture these will sufficiently describe our life First Nature whose dimme eye sees thus far what is it but a Rose Ut rosa Paestano languet adepta jugo Tifernas Ut herba solstitialis Plaut saith Tifernas which if you view in its growth the cold nips it heat withers it the wind shakes it be it never so fair it withers be we never so lively immediately we die and perish A Rose that is too beautifull Life is but grasse saith Plautus green now withered anon thus like the flower that is cut in Summer as soon as we are born Death is ready with his Sythe as soon as we are dead Angels gather in the harvest on whose wings we are carried to that Barn of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philemon Grasse no saith Philemon life is no better then a counterfeit picture what if the colours be fair and the resemblance near the shadow of death Scena est ludus quoque vita Luscin Cum parumper se ostendisset mox se abscondit Anonymus Rodol Agric. Tu quicscis securus in modum gliris sepultus jaces Philonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristophanes and the Curtains of our grave will darken all A picture that is too honourable life is a worse resemblance but a Play saith Luscinius we enter at our birth and act all our life presently there is an exit or a back return and away we go shutting all up with a sudden Tragedie A Play that is too large Anonymus being asked what was life he shews himself a little then hides himself amain his meaning was this our life is but a little show and no sooner are we seen but immediately are we hid and gone A show that is too pleasant life is nothing but a sleep saith Philonius we live secure and Dormise-like we slumber away our time when all is done as if all this were too little we sleep again and go from our grave the bed to that bed our grave A sleep that is too quiet it is nothing but a dream saith Aristophanes all our worldly pleasures are but waking dreams at last Death rouzeth our souls that have slept in sinne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. in Pyth. Vita quid nisi mortis imago Cato then lifting up our heads and seeing all gone we awake sorrowing A dream or the dream of a shadow saith Pindarus the worst the weakest dream that can be imagined sure one step further were to arrive at deaths door and yet thus farre are we lead by the hand of Nature nay if you will lower death su●ceeds life and life