A64642:101
Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…
Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Arch-bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crab. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanley Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop.Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Arch-bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop.
London: printed by S. Griffin for Will, 1660
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.
1. It's the ready way to thy destruction. Heaven, ⟨p. 24⟩and happiness, and eternal life, are laid up for those that embrace the acceptable time; death, horror, and eternal misery for those that refuse it; and wilt thou hazard soul and body on this? Moses, on this ground, did rather choose to suffer affliction in this world with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a moment. When these things are past, what profit will you have of those things whereof then you will be ashamed? When a man comes to see truly and throughly into himself, he will find no profit of such things as these: death will certainly follow us, both temporal and eternal, if we repent not the more speedily, that's all the profit we shall find.
1. It's the ready way to thy destruction. Heaven, ⟨p. 24⟩and happinesse, and eternal life, are laid up for those that embrace the acceptable time; death, horrour, and eternal misery for those that refuse it; and wilt thou hazard soul and body on this? Moses, on this ground, did rather choose to suffer affliction in this world with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a moment. When these things are past, what profit will you have of those things whereof then you will be ashamed? When a man comes to see truly and throughly into himself, he will find no profit of such things as these: death will certainly follow us, both temporal and eternal, if we repent not the more speedily, that's all the profit we shall find.
2: But suppose thou prevent everlasting death by repentance, yet what profit is there of those things whereof we are now for the present ashamed? The best can come is shame.