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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.
Take another Metaphor from the Scripture: The Scripture compares sin to cords, 1which are instruments of binding, and therefore the mystery of the Gospel is expressed by binding and loosing; Whose soever sins you shall bind on earth, they are bound in heaven, but whose sins ye remit, they are remitted. Every sin thou committest is a bond, and binds thee hand and foot against the judgment of the great day. Therefore it's said, His own iniquity shall take the wicked, and he shall be bound and holden with the cords of his sins. Now consider what folly it is, when a man shall say, though my sins are so many cords difficult to be broken, yet Isle not trouble my self about it in my younger days, but Isle stay till my old age, and then I hope I shall be the better able to break these bonds, and cast all these cords from me; when as every iniquity I commit is as a new cord, which binds me faster and faster. Is not this madness it self to think so, that in our younger years being scarce able to break one of them, in our dotage we shall be able to break ten thousand together? And certainly this is the disposition and nature of sin.
Take another Metaphor from the Scripture: The Scripture compares sin to cords, 1which are instruments of binding, and therefore the mystery of the Gospel is expressed by binding and loosing; Whose soever sins you shall bind on earth, they are bound in heaven, but whose sins ye remit, they are remitted. Every sin thou committest is a bond, and binds thee hand and foot against the judgment of the great day. Therefore it's said, His own iniquity shall take the wicked, and he shall be bound and holden with the cords of his sins. Now consider what folly it is, when a man shall say, though my sins are so many cords difficult to be broken, yet Ile not trouble my self about it in my younger days, but Ile stay till my old age, and then I hope I shall be the better able to break these bonds, and cast all these cords from me; when as every iniquity I commit is as a new cord, which binds me faster and faster. Is not this madnesse it self to think so, that in our younger yeares being scarce able to break one of them, in our dotage we shall be able to break ten thousand together? And certainly this is the disposition and nature of sin.
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