A64642:282
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.
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⟩lay, his sister saith, Lord, come not near him, for he smells. Job 17.14. I have said to corruption, thou art my father (saith Job) and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister: As in the verse before, The grave is my house, I have made my bed in the darkness. Here then he hath a new kindred; and though before he had affinity with the greatest, yet here he gets new affinity: He saith to corruption; thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. The worm is our best kindred here; the worm then is our best bed; yea worms thy best covering, as Isaiah 14.11. Thus is it thy Father, thy mother, and thy bed: nay, it is thy consumption and destroyer also, Job 26. Thus is it with thy body, it passeth to corruption, that thy best or dearest friend cannot behold it, or endure it.
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 carkasses 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,