A64642:208
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.
13. And Christ himself coming into the world, and Preaching to Nicodemus, begins: Unless a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3. A man in his natural condition can never enter into Heaven, for he is wholly carnal. That that is born of the flesh is flesh, and that that is born of the Spirit is Spirit It's carnal, and must be born again. A little patching will not serve the turn. Thou must be new born, new moulded, a little mending is not sufficient: A man must be a new creature, and new made. So that this is the substance of this doctrine of Christ, that if thou be no better then moral virtue, or civil education can make thee; if thou hast any thing less then Regeneration, believe me thou canst never see heaven. There's no hope of heaven till then, till thou art born again: till then our Saviour excludes all false fancies that way.
13. And Christ himself coming into the world, and Preaching to Nicodemus, begins: Vnlesse a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God, John 3. A man in his natural condition can never enter into Heaven, for he is wholly carnal. That that is born of the flesh is flesh, and that that is born of the Spirit is Spirit It's carnal, and must be born again. A little patching will not serve the turn. Thou must be new born, new moulded, a little mending is not sufficient: A man must be a new creature, and new made. So that this is the substance of this doctrine of Christ, that if thou be no better then moral vertue, or civil education can make thee; if thou hast any thing lesse then Regeneration, believe me thou canst never see heaven. There's no hope of heaven till then, till thou art born again: till then our Saviour excludes all false fancies that way.
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