A64642:189
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.
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 ⟨p. 70⟩and conscience are defiled. The conscience is the purest thing a man hath, it holds out last, and taketh part with God, that as Jobs messenger said, I only am escaped to tell thee: so conscience only remains to declare a mans faults to God, and to witness against the man; and yet this very light, the eye of the soul, is defiled: therefore if thou have a corrupt fountain, if the heart be naught, the fountain muddy, whatever stream comes from it,2 cannot be pure.
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 ⟨p. 70⟩and conscience are defiled. The conscience is the purest thing a man hath, it holds out last, and taketh part with God, that as Jobs messenger said, I onely am escaped to tell thee: so conscience onely remaines to declare a mans faults to God, and to witnesse against the man; and yet this very light, the eye of the soul, is defiled: therefore if thou have a corrupt fountain, if the heart be naught, the fountain muddy, whatever stream comes from it,2 cannot be pure.
- 1Look to the oginal of duties.
- 2Look to the end of duty.