A64642:109
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 there are another sort as greatly be••ol'd as these, yea more, if more may be:1 and ••ose are they who put it off till the hour of […] death, till the last gasp, as if they desired t• •ive God as little of their service as possibly th•y might, who think if they can but cry Peccavi, ⟨p. 30⟩and Lord have mercy on me, when their breath departs their bodies, they show a good disposition, and perform such acceptable service, as that God cannot choose but grant them a pardon: But think not all will be well if thou shalt shake hands with God at thy journeys end, when thou hast not walked with him all the way.
2. But there are another sort as greatly be••ol'd as these, yea more, if more may be:1 and ••ose are they who put it off till the hour of 〈…〉 death, till the last gasp, as if they desired t• •ive God as little of their service as possibly th•y might, who think if they can but cry Peccavi, ⟨p. 30⟩and Lord have mercy on me, when their breath departs their bodies, they shew a good disposition, and perform such acceptable service, as that God cannot chuse but grant them a pardon: But think not all will be well if thou shalt shake hands with God at thy journeys end, when thou hast not walked with him all the way.
- 1The folly of those that defer their repentance till death.