A64642:262
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.
Now to unfold the particulars of death, and to show you the ingredients of this bitter cup, that we may be weary of our estates, that we may be drawn out of this death, and be made to fly to the Son, that we may be free indeed. Observe, that Death is not here to be understood of a separation of the soul from the body only, but a greater death then that, the death of the soul and body, We have mention made of a first resurrection, Rev. 20.6. Blessed and happy is he that hath his part in the first resurrection, for on such the second death hath no power. What is the first resurrection? It is a rising from sin. And what is the second death? It is everlasting damnation. The first death is a death unto sin, and the first resurrection is a rising from sin.
Now to unfold the particulars of death, and to shew you the ingredients of this bitter cup, that we may be weary of our estates, that we may be drawn out of this death, and be made to fly to the Son, that we may be free indeed. Observe, that Death is not here to be understood of a separation of the soul from the body only, but a greater death then that, the death of the soul and body, We have mention made of a first resurrection, Rev. 20.6. Blessed and happy is he that hath his part in the first resurrection, for on such the second death hath no power. What is the first resurrection? It is a rising from sin. And what is the second death? It is everlasting damnation. The first death is a death unto sin, and the first resurrection is a rising from sin.
And so again for all things the judgments or troubles that appertain to this death, all a man suffers before. It is not as fools think, the last blow that fells the tree, but every blow helps forward. 'Tis not the last blow that kills the man, but every blow that goes before, makes way unto it. Every trouble of mind, every anguish, every sickness; all these are as so many strokes, that shorten our life, and hasten our end; and are as it were so many deaths: Therefore however it is said by the Apostle, It is appointed for all men once to die, yet we see the Apostle to the Corinthians of the great conflicts that he had, in