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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.
Patience may stay a man up in trouble, and hope may comfort a man up in torment; but both these are taken away. This is a thing we very seldom think; but did we seriously consider of this first act of the Judgment before the sentence, we would not be idle in this world.
Patience may stay a man up in trouble, and hope may comfort a man up in torment; but both these are taken away. This is a thing we very seldome think; but did we seriously consider of this first act of the Judgment before the sentence, we would not be idle in this world.
3. Then lastly, he is put into an unchangeable estate: So soon as ever death lays Gods Mace upon him, he's put into an estate of unchangeableness. Such is the terribleness of it, that now though he yell, and groan, and pour out rivers of tears, there is no hope of change.
3. Then lastly, he is put into an unchangeable estate: So soon as ever death lays Gods Mace upon him, he's put into an estate of unchangeblenesse. Such is the terriblenesse of it, that now though he yell, and groan, and pour out rivers of teares, there is no hope of change.
Consider now what a woeful case this is. If some friend of this mans should now come to him, would he not tell him, we have often been very merry together, but didst thou but know the misery that I am in, thou wouldst be troubled for me: Half those tears that I now pour forth, would have put me into another place, had I taken the season, but now it is too late. Oh therefore do thou make use of tears, a little may do it now, hereafter it will be too late.
Consider now what a woful case this is. If some friend of this mans should now come to him, would he not tell him, we have often been very merry together, but didst thou but know the misery that I am in, thou wouldst be troubled for me: Half those teares that I now pour forth, would have put me into another place, had I taken the season, but now it is too late. Oh therefore doe thou make use of teares, a little may doe it now, hereafter it will be too late.