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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.
But this is that I told you the last time, how that the law of God is a perfect law, and nothing is to be added to it, yet the variety of the curses belonging unto a man unreconciled are so many, that the ample book of God cannot contain them, Deut. 28.61. All the curses which are not written, &c. We read v. 27. The Lord shall smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with Emeralds, and with a scab, and with itch. See the diversities of plagues: All these are made parts of the curse. The very itch and scab is a part of the payment of Gods wrath in hell, Lev. 26.26. I will send a sword amongst you, which shall avenge the quarrel of my Covenant, the sword which shall destroy you, that when you ⟨p. 124⟩shall hear of war, of the coming of the sword, (which the children of God need not fear, all is alike unto them) it shall be to avenge the quarrel of Gods Covenant. The Book of God comprehends not all the curses that are to light on the wicked. And therefore we find in Zechariah, a Book, a great Folio-book, every side whereof was full of curses, Cap. 5.2. He said unto me, what seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll, the length whereof is 20 cubits, and the breadth thereof is 10 cubits. Here's a big Book indeed; but mark what is in it. Sure it is not for nought that the Holy Ghost sets down the dimensions of it: there is something questionless in it, the length thereof is 20 cubits, and the breadth 10 cubits: a huge volume. Nor is it a Book, but a Roll, so that the crassitude goeth into the compass, and this is written thick within and without, and is full of curses against sin. Now for the dimensions of it, compare this place with 1 Kings 6.3. and you shall find them the very dimensions of Solomons Porch: A great place, where the people were wont to come for the hearing of the Word: and not only in that time, but it was continued to the time of Christ and the Apostles: For we read how our Saviour walked in Solomons Porch, and the Apostles were in Solomons Porch, Acts 5. So large then was this Roll, that it agreed in length and breadth with Solomons Porch, and so many curses were written in it as were able to come in at the Church door. It is as if we should see a huge book now, coming in at the Church door,