A64642:243
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.
First, it's expressed by the name of filthiness, •hewing there's nothing so defiles a man as sin.
First, it's expressed by the name of filthinesse, •hewing there's nothing so defiles a man as sin.
Then 'tis called superfluity of naughtiness: But what, is there any naughtiness to be born with? and what exceeds that, is it superfluity? No, that's not the meaning of the place. By superfluity, is meant the excrements of sin: Excrements are the refuse of meat when the good nourishment is taken away from it. And 'tis as if the Apostle had said, Lay aside filthy, nasty, or excrementitious sin. The word was used in the Ceremonies of the Jews, and thereby we may see what was taught concerning sin, Deut. 23.12, 13. Thou shalt have a place without the camp whither thou shalt go, &c. Though the comparison be homely, yet it shows the filthiness of the sin, that it is as a very excrement. Thou shalt have a paddle, ⟨p. 104⟩and it shall be that when thou wilt ease thy self, thou shalt dig therewith, &c. and thou shal• cover that which cometh from thee. But what, did God care for these things? No, it was to teach them a higher matter: As the reason following implies. For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of the Camp. God would thereby show them, that those things at which every man stoppeth his nose, are not so filthy to man, as sin is unto God. So that you see how the case stands with a sinful man: sin defiles him, it pollutes him.
Then 'tis call'd superfluity of naughtinesse: But what, is there any naughtinesse to be born with? and what exceeds that, is it superfluity? No, that's not the meaning of the place. By superfluity, is meant the excrements of sin: Excrements are the refuse of meat when the good nourishment is taken away from it. And 'tis as if the Apostle had said, Lay aside filthy, nasty, or excrementitious sin. The word was used in the Ceremonies of the Jewes, and thereby we may see what was taught concerning sin,