A64642:209
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
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5. The Apostles began to gather the first Church after Christs resurrection, Act. 2.23. They do not begin to preach Christ first, his virtue ⟨p. 82⟩and efficacy; but first they tell them of their great sin, in crucifying the Lord of life, viz. Whom with wicked hands you have taken and crucified. But what was the end of their doing thus? It's set down v, 37. They were pricked to the heart, and then they cried out, Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved? See, this was the end of all, the humbling of them, that by declaring what they had done, they might be pricked at the heart; so that now they see if it be no better with them then for the present, it's like to go ill with them. This makes them cry out, What shall we do? Then (saith Peter) repent and be Baptized, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. After he had told them their own, and had brought them to their search, which is their first work, then comes the promise of Christ. Observe the Apostles method in the Epistle to the Romans: which book is a perfect Catechism of the Church, which contains these three parts of Divinity, Humiliation, Justification, and Sanctification. See how the Apostle orders his method. From the first Cap to part of the third, he treats all of the Law, and convinces both Jew and Gentile, and all of sin. Then 3 Cap. 19. mark his Conclusion: that every mouth may be stopped. When he had stopped every mouth, cast down every strong hold which listed it self up against God: when he had laid all at Gods feet, and left them bleeding, as it were, under the knife of God, then comes he to Christ, Rom. 3.21. The righteousness of God without the Law is manifested. He had done his first business ⟨p. 83⟩in humbling them, in showing them their sins by the Law: and as soon as that was done, when every mouth was stopped, then comes he to the promise by faith in Jesus Christ to all them that believe.
5. The Apostles began to gather the first Church after Christs resurrection, Act. 2.23. They doe not begin to preach Christ first, his vertue