A64642:102
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.
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.
3. Thou art loth to part with the pleasures of sin for a season, and hereafter thou thinkest thou canst amend all. But consider the particulars, and then shall you see how you are befooled in your hearts and souls. Believe it for an undoubted truth, there's nothing in the world by which Satan more deludes a man, then by this persuading him to neglect his day, and repent well enough hereafter. That you may expel this suggestion out of your soul, pray unto God that he would go along with his Word, and cause you to lay this to heart, that by his Spirit your understanding may be enlightened to see the truth. Though I make this as clear as the Sun, that it is a false ⟨p. 25⟩supposition and mere folly on which we build, in deferring our return to God, yet God from heaven must teach you, or you will be never the wiser. Know therefore that this very day God reaches out the golden Sceptre to thee, and what folly were it to neglect it, since thou knowest not whether he will ever proffer it thee again: And assure thy self that he is a liar that tells thee thou mayst as well repent hereafter as now: and this will appear whether we consider, the order of outward things in the world, or the nature of sin.
3. Thou art loth to part with the pleasures of sin for a season, and hereafter thou thinkest thou canst amend all. But consider the particulars, and then shall you see how you are befool'd in your hearts and soules. Believe it for an undoubted truth, there's nothing in the world by which Satan more deludes a man, then by this perswading him to neglect his day, and repent well enough hereafter. That you may expel this suggestion out of your soule, pray unto God that he would go along with his Word, and cause you to lay this to heart, that by his Spirit your understanding may be enlightned to see the truth. Though I make this as clear as the Sun, that it is a false ⟨p. 25⟩