A64642:188
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.
Then answered Haggai, so is this people, so is this nation before me, saith the Lord, and so is every work of their hands, it is unclean. A man may not say prayer is a sin, because it is so in them; no, it's a good duty, but spoiled in the carriage. He mars it in the carriage; and therefore in stead of doing a good work, he spoils it; and so in stead of a reward, must look for punishment, 1 Tim. 1 5. The end of the Commandment is love out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned. Let the things thou doest be according to the Commandment: look what thou doest be according to the middle, end, and beginning of the Commandment. If wrong in all these, then though the work be never so materially good, being faulty in the original, middle, or end, it's so far from being a good work, that God will not accept of it, and thou mayst rather expect a plague for spoiling it, then a cure.
Then answered Haggai, so is this people, so is this nation before me, saith the Lord, and so is every work of their hands, it is unclean. A man may not say prayer is a sin, because it is so in them; no, it's a good duty, but spoil'd in the carriage. He marrs it in the carriage; and therefore in stead of doing a good work, he spoils it; and so in stead of a reward, must look for punishment, 1 Tim. 1 5. The end of the Commandement is love out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned. Let the things thou doest be according to the Commandement: look what thou doest be according to the middle, end, and beginning of the Commandement. If wrong in all these, then though the work be never so materially good, being faulty in the original, middle, or end, it's so far from being a good work, that God will not accept of it, and thou mayst rather expect a plague for spoiling it, then a cure.
See then the beginning of a good work,1 it must be from a pure heart. A man not ingrafted into Christ, is a defiled, polluted person, his very mind