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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.
When sin entices th•e on by profits and pleasures, thou art not aware that it will slay thee: But thou shalt find it will be bitterness in the end. A sinner that acts a tragedy in sin, shall have a bloody Catastrophe. Rom. 6. What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? Blood and death is the end of the Tragedy. The end of those things is death. The sting of death is sin, 1 Cor. 15. What is sin? It's the sting of death: Death would not be death unless sin were in it. Sin is more ⟨p. 112⟩deadly then death it self: It's sin enableth death to sting, enableth it to hurt and wound us: So that we may look on sin, as the Barbarians looked on the viper on Pauls hand, they expected continually when he would have swollen and burst. Sin bites like a snake which is called a fiery serpent, not that the serpent is fiery, but because it puts a man into such a flaming heat by their poison: And such is the sting of sin, which carries poison in it, that had we but eyes to see our ugliness by it, and how it inflames us, we should continually, every day look when we should burst with it. The Apostle, James 1.15. useth another metaphor: Sin when it is accomplished bringeth forth death. [Greek or Hebrew], saith the Original, sin goeth as it were with child with death. The word is proper to women in labour, who are in torment till they are delivered. Now as if sin were this woman, he useth it in the feminine gender. [Greek or Hebrew]. So is it with sin, sin is in pain, cries out, hath no rest till it be delivered of this dead birth, till it have brought forth death: That is, sin grows great with child with death, and then it not only deserves death, but it produceth and actually brings forth: This is generally so.
When sin entices th•e on by profits and pleasures, thou art not aware that it will slay thee: But thou shalt find it will be bitternesse in the end. A sinner that acts a tragedy in sin, shall have a bloody Catastrophe. Rom. 6. What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? Blood and death is the end of the Tragedy. The end of those things is death. The sting of death is sin,