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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 God hath not only given this great means of his Word and Commandment, but great grace too. Where understand that there is not only final grace, but degrees of grace: else the Apostle would not have said, received not the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in vain. Consider then how much grace thou hast received in vain. How many motions to good hast thou rejected? Perhaps thy heart is touched at this Sermon, though it is not my tongue, nor the tongue of the most elegant in the world that can touch the heart, but the Spirit that comes along with his word. Now when thou findest with the Word a Spirit to go with it▪ it is a grace. If thy conscience be enlightened, and thy duty revealed to ⟨p. 94⟩thee, so that it tells thee what thou art, what thou oughtst to do, and not to do, it is a grace. Now if for all this thou blindly runnest through, and art never the better, but obstinately settest thy self against God, and doest many things which others that have not received the same grace would not have done, know then that thou receivest this grace in vain, and thy case is lamentable.
Now God hath not onely given this great meanes of his Word and Commandement, but great grace too. Where understand that there is not onely final grace, but degrees of grace: else the Apostle would not have said, receiv'd not the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in vain. Consider then how much grace thou hast received in vain. How many motions to good hast thou rejected? Perhaps thy heart is touched at this Sermon, though it is not my tongue, nor the tongue of the most elegant in the world that can touch the heart, but the Spirit that comes along with his word. Now when thou findest wirh the Word a Spirit to goe with it▪ it is a grace. If thy conscience be enlightned, and thy duty revealed to ⟨p. 94⟩thee, so that it tels thee what thou art, what thou oughtst to doe, and not to doe, it is a grace. Now if for all this thou blindly runnest through, and art never the better, but obstinately settest thy self against God, and doest many things which others that have not received the same grace would not have done, know then that thou receivest this grace in vain, and thy case is lamentable.