A64642:194
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.
We have Gods own word for it. It's men, generally all men, Gen. 6.5. God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every thought and imagination of his heart was only evil continually. Every word is as it were a thunder-bolt: and was it not time, when it was thus with them for God to bring a flood? The thoughts are the original, from which the words and actions do usually proceed. Now all their thoughts were evil: What, was there no kind of goodness in their thoughts? no, they were only evil continually: and that was the reason the flood came. Well, but though it were so before the flood, yet I hope they were better after the flood. No, God said again after the flood, cap. 8. The thoughts of the hearts of men are evil, &c. Like will to like. Men are all of one kind, till they receive grace from Christ. We are all of one nature, and naturally all the thoughts and imaginations of our hearts are only evil continually.
We have Gods own word for it. It's men, generally all men, Gen. 6.5. God saw the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and that every thought and imagination of his heart was onely evil continually. Every word is as it were a thunder-bolt: and was it not time, when it was thus with them for God to bring a flood? The thoughts are the original, from which the words and actions do usually proceed. Now all their thoughts were evil: What, was there no kind of goodnesse in their thoughts? no, they were onely evil continually: and that was the reason the flood came. Well, but though it were so before the flood, yet I hope they were better after the flood. No, God said again after the flood, cap. 8. The thoughts of the hearts of men are evil, &c. Like will to like. Men are all of one kinde, till they receive grace from Christ. We are all of one nature, and naturally all the thoughts and imaginations of our hearts are onely evil continually.
See it in the understanding, 1 Cor. 3.14. The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, for they are foolishness unto him &c.