A64642:104
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.
11. For external things, every Age after a man comes into the world (if he embrace not the present opportunity for repentance) is worse then other, and are each of them as so many clogs which come one after another to hinder it. As for thy childish Age, that's mere vanity, and thy riper Age will bring many impediments and hindrances that youth never thought of. Thou art then troubled about many things, and perplexed how to provide for maintenance; in the midst whereof know that thou hast not a body of brass, but a corruptible and fading body: and yet such is the folly of the heart of man, that the less ground he hath to go, the fewer days to spend, the more he often provides, and is the more covetous. Consider that the wisest of men gave thee this counsel, Remember thy Creator in the day of thy youth, before the evil days come, wherein thou shalt say thou hast no pleasure in them. Here we find it's a youthful thing, and should be a young mans practice: not according to that devilish saying, A ⟨p. 26⟩young Saint, and an old Devil: but Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. The more sin thou committest, the more unapt thou art to repent. Custom in sinning makes thee a Lot; the elder thou growest, the more loth to go out of Sodom. Besides,
11. For external things, every Age after a man comes into the world (if he embrace not the present opportunity for repentance) is worse then other, and are each of them as so many clogs which come one after another to hinder it. As for thy childish Age, that's meer vanitie, and thy riper Age will bring many impediments and hindrances that youth never thought of. Thou art then troubled about many things, and perplexed how to provide for maintenance; in the midst whereof know that thou hast not a body of brass, but a corruptible and fading body: and yet such is the folly of the heart of man, that the less ground he hath to go, the fewer dayes to spend, the more he often provides, and is the more covetous. Consider that the wisest of men gave thee this counsel, Remember thy Creator in the day of thy youth, before the evil dayes come, wherein thou shalt say thou hast no pleasure in them. Here we find it's a youthful thing, and should be a young mans practice: not according to that devilish saying, A ⟨p. 26⟩