A64642:263
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.
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 2 Cor. 11.23. saith, that he was in labours abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons frequent, in deaths oft. In deaths often? what's that? That is, however he could die but once; yet these harbingers of death, these stripes, bonds, imprisonments, sicknesses, &c. all of them were as so many deaths, all these were comprehended under this curse, and are parts of death; in as much as he underwent that which was a furtherance to death, he is said to die. So we read Exo. 10.17. Pharaoh could say, Pray unto your God that he would forgive my sins this once, and entreat the Lord that he will take away from me but this death only. Not that the locusts were death; but are said to be so, because they prepared and made way for a natural death. Therefore the great judgments of God are usually in Scripture comprised under this name Death. All things that may be expressions of a wrath of an highly provoked God, are comprehended ⟨p. 120⟩under this name: All the judgments of God that come upon us in this life, or that to come; whether they be spiritual and ghostly, or temporal, are under the name of death.
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 sicknesse; 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