A64642:24
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.
Having given this account to the Reader I shall only mention three things Concerning him, and forbear many more that might be added.
First, to the testimonies concerning him from Spanhemius, Ger. Vossius, Buchartus, Simplitius, •ud. de dieu. Paulus Testardus, Blessensis, Arnoldus Bootius, Mr. Selden, Dr. Prideaux, Bp. Davenant, Bertius, Mr. Camden, Sir Rog. Twisden, and the whole University of Oxford, beside the forced testimony of his adversaries, Moranez. Beaumont, (Alias) Rookwood, Challoner, Hen. Fitz-Symonds, for all which I refer to the book aforesaid; give me leave to add the testimony of Dr. William Chapel, sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and afterwards Provost of Trinity College near Dublin: which from such an acute man as he was, may amount to the like equivalent testimony ⟨image 12⟩from the University of Cambridge. He gave me once three reasons why he thought Doctor Usher (then 1Bishop of Meath) was in his esteem the greatest Scholar in the Christian world.
First, to the testimonies concerning him from Spanhemius, Ger. Vossius, Buchartus, Simplitius, •ud. de dieu. Paulus Testardus, Blessensis, Arnoldus Bootius, Mr. Selden, Dr. Prideaux, Bp. Davenant, Bertius, Mr. Cambden, Sir Rog. Twisden, and the whole University of Oxford, beside the forced testimony of his adversaries, Moranez. Beaumont, (Alias) Rookwood, Challoner, Hen. Fitz-Symonds, for all which I refer to the book aforesaid; give me leave to add the testimony of Dr. William Chappel, sometimes fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards Provost of Trinity Colledge near Dublin: which from such an acute man as he was, may amount to the like equivalent testimony ⟨image 12⟩