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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.
True, I know self-love is a deceitful glass, and looking therein, a man will be favourable to himself, and so deceive himself, for it renders things in a bigger shape then they are. But
True, I know self-love is a deceitful glasse, and looking therein, a man will be favourable to himself, and so deceive himself, for it renders things in a bigger shape then they are. But
12. I thank God my neighbour also, and all others that know me speak well of me. I have not only a good conceit of my self, but every man about me can speak well of me, cannot say, black is mine eye. I have a good report of all men. But if this were enough and sufficient to assure thee of the goodness ⟨p. 45⟩of thy estate, it were well, but it is not enough. True it is, a good report from men for fair and honest dealing is not to be despised; yet it will do no good unless thou have it from God. It was one of the happinesses of our Saviour that he was in favour with God and men; it was with God too as well as men. When both meet together it's well indeed. Demetrius in John 3.12. we read, had a good report of all men, and of the truth it self. To have a good report from men, and also from the truth, is an happy thing: but having it not from the truth, Woe to us when all men speak well of us. What folly is it to rest upon a good report from men, when I have it not from the truth? The like madness it is, as for a man to trust in the absolution of his fellow-prisoner, when the Law of the Land condemns him. Shall a sick man be so mad as to say he is well, because others say so? As if we should seek our selves out of our selves, and not within our selves. No, Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself, and not in another. Rom. 2. ult. He is a Jew which is one inwardly, whose praise is not of men but of God. Not as if this did dis common, or turn out the praise of men; but it is comparatively spoken, and it's meant, whose praise is not so much of men as of God. So that this is the second false glass, when a man concludes himself to be in a good estate because men praise him, thinks it well with him because others think so, and say so. He hath a good opinion of himself, but that's not all, other men give him a good report too. And