A64642:235
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.
That I may now declare unto you what these woes are, note by the way that I speak not to any particular man, but to every man in general. It is not for me to make particular application, do you do that your selves: We are all children of wrath by nature: In our natural condition we are all alike, we are all of one kind, and every kind generates its own kind: 'Tis an hereditary condition, and till the Son make us free, we are all subject to this woe. By nature we are all children of wrath as well as others, Eph. 2.3. Now that I may not speak of these woes in general, I have showed how two woes are past, and a third woe is coming. God proceeds punctually with us. And are not our proceedings in Judiciary Courts after this manner? The Judge when he pronounceth sentence, doth particularize the matter: Thou shalt return to the place from whence thou camest, thou shalt have thy bolts knocked off, thou shalt be drawn to the place of execution, thou shalt be hanged, thou shalt be cut down, and quartered; and so he goes on. And this is that which is the witness of Justice. Thus ⟨p. 100⟩is it here, the Spirit of God thinks it not enough to say barely, the state of a sinner is a woeful estate; but the woes are punctually numbered, and this shall be my practice. Now
That I may now declare unto you what these woes are, note by the way that I speak not to any particular man, but to every man in general. It is not for me to make particular application, doe you doe that your selves: We are all children of wrath by nature: In our natural condition we are all alike, we are all of one kind, and every kind generates its own kind: 'Tis an hereditary condition, and till the Son make us free, we are all subject to this woe. By nature we are all children of wrath as well as others, Eph. 2.3. Now that I may not speak of these woes in general, I have shew'd how two woes are past, and a third woe is coming. God proceeds punctually with us. And are not our proceedings in Judiciary Courts after this manner? The Judge when he pronounceth sentence, doth particularize the matter: Thou shalt return to the place from whence thou camest, thou shalt have thy bolts knockt off, thou shalt be drawn to the place of execution, thou shalt be hanged, thou shalt be cut down, and quartered; and so he goes on. And this is that which is the witnesse of Justice. Thus