A64642:252
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.
but when God loves us, he hedges up our ways, Hos. 2.6. If God love us, he will not leave us to our selves, though we desire it. But when God shall say, go thy ways if thou wilt not be kept in, be thy own Master, this is a most fearful thing: And this is the third woe. First the soul is polluted with sin; it forsakes God, and God forsakes it: then the world, the flesh, and the Devil, these fill up the room; and then what follows when these three rule within? but all kinds ⟨p. 110⟩of sin: And so all kinds of punishment, which is the next woe.
but when God loves us, he hedges up our ways, Hos. 2.6. If God love us, he will not leave us to our selves, though we desire it. But when God shall say, goe thy wayes if thou wilt not be kept in, be thy own Master, this is a most fearful thing: And this is the third woe. First the soul is polluted with sin; it forsakes God, and God forsakes it: then the world, the flesh, and the Devil, these fill up the room; and then what follows when these three rule within? but all kinds ⟨p. 110⟩of sin: And so all kinds of punishment, which is the next woe.
4. And this woe brings in all the curses of Almighty God, an Iliad of evils. Sin calls for its wages, viz. Death, Death. That's the payment of all: The wages of sin is death. And this is the next thing which I shall open and explain.
Now in handling hereof, I will first show how death in general must of necessity follow sin, that thou who hast forsaken the fountain of life, art liable to everlasting death. And for this see some places of Scripture,