A64642:204
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.
Now because men like not this kind of Doctrine, to begin with Preaching of the Law, and therefore think there may be a shorter and nearer way, to preach Christ first, I will therefore make known unto you this method of the Scripture, and I will justify it unto you.
Now because men like not this kinde of Doctrine, to begin with Preaching of the Law, and therefore think there may be a shorter and nearer way, to preach Christ first, I will therefore make known unto you this method of the Scripture, and I will justifie it unto you.
There must be this Preparative, else the Gospel will come unseasonably. If before we are soured by the leaven of the Law Christ be preached, he will be but unsavoury & unpleasant to us.
There must be this Preparative, else the Gospel will come unseasonably. If before we are sowred by the leaven of the Law Christ be preached, he will be but unsavoury & unpleasant to us.
12. Does God at the first Preaching of the Gospel begin with Adam by Preaching Christ, before he saw his sin and wickedness? No, he said not to him presently, as soon as he had sinned, Well, Adam, thou hast sinned, and broken my covenant, yet there is another covenant, thou shalt be saved by one that comes out of thy loins: But God first summons him to appear, he brings him out of his shelters and hiding places, tells him of his sin, and saith, Hast thou eaten of the tree which I forbade thee to eat of? But the man shifts it off, and the woman also to the serpent: The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat: Yet all this will not excuse him, Gods judgments are declared, his sin ⟨p. 81⟩