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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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First therefore, for the communion of the ⟨p. 20⟩Spirit, which is the ground and foundation of this spiritual union; let us call to mind what we have read in Gods Book: that Christ, the second Adam, was made aa quickening spirit: and that he bquickeneth whom he will: that unto him cGod hath given the Spirit without measure: and dof his fullness have all we received: that ehe that is joined unto the Lord, is one Spirit: and that fhereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us his Spirit. By all which it doth appear, that the mystery of our union with Christ consisteth mainly in this: that the self-same Spirit which is in him, as in the Head, is so derived from him into every one of his true members, that thereby they are animated and quickened to a spiritual life. We read in the first of Ezekiel, of four living creatures, and of four wheels standing by them. When those went, (saith the Text) these went; and when those stood, these stood: and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them. He that should behold such a vision as this, would easily conclude by that which he saw, that some invisible bands there were by which these wheels and living creatures were joined together, howsoever none did outwardly appear unto the eye: and the holy Ghost, to give us satisfaction herein, discovereth the secret, by yielding this for the reason of this strange connection; that the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels, Ezek. 1.21. From whence we may infer, that things may truly be conjoined together, though the manner ⟨p. 21⟩of the conjunction be not corporal: and that things distant in place may be united together, by having the spirit of the one communicated unto the other.