A64642:169
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. The Second, which is the Devil. The Devil leads him as well as the World: According to the Prince of the power of the Air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. In stead of having the Spirit of God to be led by, he's posted by the Spirit of Sa•an, and the works of his Father the Devil he will do, He hath not an heart to resist the vi•est lusts the Devil shall persuade him to. When Satan once fills his heart, he hath no heart to any thing else, then to follow him.
2. The Second, which is the Devil. The Devil leads him as well as the World: According to the Prince of the power of the Aire, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. In stead of having the Spirit of God to be led by, he's posted by the Spirit of Sa•an, and the works of his Father the Devil he will doe, He hath not an heart to resist the vi•est lusts the Devil shall perswade him to. When Satan once fills his heart, he hath no heart to any thing else, then to follow him.
3. There remains the Flesh, his guide too, and that's not left out, v. 3. Amongst whom we had our conversation in times past in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. So that you see the three guides of a natural man; and he is as bad as these three can make him: and till the stronger man comes and pulls him out, in this condition he remains, and in this natural estate, he is a son of disobedience. We see then the state of disobedience described to be wretchedness.
3. There remains the Flesh, his guide too, and that's not left out, v. 3. Amongst whom we had our conversation in times past in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. So that you see the three guides of a natural man; and he is as bad as these three can make him: and till the stronger man comes and pulls him out, in this condition he remains, and in this natural estate, he is a son of disobedience. We see then the state of disobedience described to be wretchednesse.