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A sermon preached before the Commons-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at…A sermon preached before the Commos-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at…
A sermon preached before the Commons-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620. By James Usher. Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, in IrelandA sermon preached before the Commos-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620. By Iames Vssher. Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Dublin, in Ireland
London: printed by I.Dawson for John Bartlett, 1624London: printed by I.Dawson for Iohn Bartlett, 1624
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And thus being by your goodness so happily abridged of that which I intended further to have urged from the conjunction which we have with the Body: I pass now unto the second part of the Communion of Saints, which consisteth in the union which we all have with one Head. For Christ our Head is the main foundation of this heavenly union. Out of him there is nothing but confusion; without him we are nothing but disordered heaps of rubbish: but in him all the building fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord; and in him are we builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit, Ephes. 2.21, 22. Of our selves we are but lost sheep, scattered and wandering upon every Mountain. From him it is, that there is one fold, and one shepherd, Joh. 10.16. God having purposed in himself to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him, Ephes. 1.10. This is the effect of our Saviours prayer, Joh. 17.21. That they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, & I in thee, that they also may be one in us, &c. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. And this is it which we find so oft repeated by Saint Paul: We ⟨p. 12⟩being many, are one body in Christ, Rom. 12.5. Ye are all one in Christ Jesus, Gal. 3.28. And in the Text we have in hand: We being many, are one bread, and one body. Why? because we are all partakers of that one bread: namely, of that bread, whereof he had said in the words immediately going before: The bread which we break, 1is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
And thus being by your goodnesse so happily abridged of that which I intended further to haue vrged from the coniunction which we haue with the Body: I passe now vnto the second part of the Communion of Saints, which consisteth in the vnion which we all haue with one Head. For Christ our Head is the maine foundation of this heauenly vnion. Out of him there is nothing but confusion; without him we are nothing but disordered heapes of rubbish: but in him all the building fitly framed together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord; and in him are we builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit,