A64642:181
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.
Rom. 3.3. There the Apostle insists on the point expressly, that every mouth might be stopped; to show the state of all men naturally, having laid down a large beadroll of the iniquities of the Heathen, cometh afterward to convince the Jews. What are we better then they; no, we have proved that all are under sin: there is none good, no not one.
Rom. 3.3. There the Apostle insists on the point expresly, that every mouth might be stopped; to shew the state of all men naturally, having laid down a large beadrole of the iniquities of the Heathen, cometh afterward to convince the Jews. What are we better then they; no, we have proved that all are under sin: there is none good, no not one.
Obj. 1But though you bring many places to prove that all are sinners, yet I hope the Virgin Mary was not.
- 1Obj.
Sol. An inch breaks no squares, but All are sinners. There is none righteous, no not one. The drift of the Apostle in this, is to show that these things are not spoken of some heinous sinners only, but there's not one to be exempted; and therefore in his Conclusion, v. 19. he saith, That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God: and that by the deeds of the Law no flesh can be justified from sin.
Sol. An inch breaks no squares, but All are sinners. There is none righteous, no not one. The drift of the Apostle in this, is to shew that these things are not spoken of some hainous sinners onely, but there's not one to be exempted; and therefore in his Conclusion, v. 19. he saith, That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God: and that by the deeds of the Law no flesh can be justified from sin.