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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.
4. Then in the fourth place, after all this is done, comes sin and cries for its wages, which is death. That terrible death which comprehends in it all that beadroll of curses which are written in the Book of God; and not only those▪ but the curses also which are not written, Deut. 28. which are so many that they cannot be written. ⟨p. 101⟩Though the Book of God be a complete Book, and the Law of God a perfect Law, yet here they come short, and are imperfect: For the curses not written shall light upon him, which are so many as pen and ink cannot set down, nay, the very pen of God cannot express them, so many are the calamities and sorrows that shall light upon the soul of every sinful man.
4. Then in the fourth place, after all this is done, comes sin and cries for its w•ges, which is death. That terrible death which comprehends in it all that beadroll of curses which are written in the Book of God; and not onely those▪ but the curses also which are not written, Deut. 28. which are so many that they cannot be written. ⟨p. 101⟩Though the Book of God be a compleat Book, and the Law of God a perfect Law, yet here they come short, and are imperfect: For the curses not written shall light upon him, which are so many as pen and ink cannot set down, nay, the very pen of God cannot expresse them, so many are the calamities and sorrows that shall light upon the soul of every sinful man.
Now let us take these woes in pieces one after another.