A64642:151
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.
EPH. 2.1, 2, 3. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, where in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince that ruleth in the Air, the Spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience: Amongst whom also, &c.
EPH. 2.1, 2, 3. And you hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins, where in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince that ruleth in the Aire, the Spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience: Amongst whom also, &c.
The last time I declared unto you the duty that was necessarily required of us if we look to be saved, that we must not only take the matter speedily into consideration, and not be deluded by our own hearts and the wiles of Satan; but that we must not do it superficially or perfunctorily, but must bring our selves to the true touchstone, and not look upon our selves with false glasses, because there is naturally in every one self-love; and in these last and worst times men are apt to think better of themselves then they deserve. If there be any beginning of goodness in them, they think all is well, when there is no danger in the world then being but half Christians. He thinks that if he hath escaped the outward pollutions of the world through ⟨p. 57⟩lust, and be not so bad as formerly he hath been, and not so bad as many men in the world are, therefore he is well enough: whereas his end proves worse then his beginning.