A64642:281
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.
2. Now death rests not there, but cometh ⟨p. 132⟩to seize upon thy body. It hath bereaved thee of all that thou possessedst of all thy outward things, that's taken away: Now it comes to touch his person, and see what then. It toucheth him, it rents his soul from his body: those two loving companions that have so long dwelt together, are now separated. It takes thy soul from thy body: This man doth not deliver up his spirit, as we read of our Saviour, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit, or deliver their spirits as Stephen did: But here it's taken from them; it's much against his mind, it's a pulling of himself from himself. This it doth.
3. But then again, when thou art thus pulled asunder, what becomes of the parts separated?
1. First, The body as soon as the soul is taken from it, hastens to corruption; that must see corruption: yea, it becomes so full of corruption, that thy dearest friend cannot then endure to come near unto thee. When the soul is taken from the body, it's observed, that of all carcasses that are, mans is most loathsome, none so odious as that. Abraham loved Sarah well; but when he comes to buy a monument for her, see his expression, Gen. 23 8. He communes with the men, and saith, if it be your mind to sell me the field, that I might bury my dead out of my sight. Though he loved her very well before, yet now she must be buried out of his sight. It is sown in dishonour, and it's the basest thing that can be: Therefore when our Saviour was going near to the place where Lazarus ⟨p. 133⟩