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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
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2. Secondly, He's good to thee, Rom. 2. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance? &c. What hast thou that thou hast not received from his bountiful hand? Consider of this, and let this be a means to draw thee off from thy sinfulness. When David had greatly sinned against God, and when God bring• his murder home to him, he pleads thus with him: When thou wert nothing in thine own eyes, I brought thee (saith ⟨p. 95⟩God) to the Kingdom, I took thee from the sheepfold, and exalted thee, and brought thee to a plentiful house. And may not God say the like to us? and do you thus requite the Lord O you foolish people and unwise, that the more his mercy and goodness is to you, the higher your sins should be against him?
2. Secondly, He's good to thee, Rom. 2. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance? &c. What hast thou that thou hast not received from his bountiful hand? Consider of this, and let this be a meanes to draw thee off from thy sinfulnesse. When David had greatly sinned against God, and when God bring• his murther home to him, he pleads thus with him: When thou wert nothing in thine own eyes, I brought thee (saith ⟨p. 95⟩God) to the Kingdome, I took thee from the sheepfold, and exalted thee, and brought thee to a plentiful house. And may not God say the like to us? and doe you thus requite the Lord O you foolish people and unwise, that the more his mercy and goodnesse is to you, the higher your sins should be against him?
5. Besides, Consider more then all this, we have the examples of good men before our eyes. God commands us not what we cannot do: If God had not set some before our eyes that walk in his ways, and do his will, then we might say that these are precepts that none can perform: But we have patterns, of whom we may say, such a man I never knew to lye, such a one never to swear, and this should be a means to preserve us from sinning,