A64642:289
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.
REV. 21.8. Bu• •he fearful, and unbel••••ng, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
REV. 21.8. Bu• •he fearful, and unbel••••ng, and the abominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all lyars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
The last day I entered, you know, upon the miserable estate of an unreconciled sin•er, at the time of his dissolution, when his soul shall be taken from him, and be presented naked before Christs Tribunal, there to receive according to the works which he hath done in the flesh: And I showed that the woefulness of that estate consisted in two acts done upon him: The one before he comes to his place, before he is thrust away from Gods presence into hell fire; which I showed you the last day, and did then promise to show you the other, to wit, the woefulness of his estate, being once come into his place. The act done to the sinners soul before he is sent to hell, is the deprivation of his light, the taking away of his talent. For whilst ⟨p. 138⟩a man is in this world, he hath many good things in him, too good to accompany him to hell. Now all these excellent gifts and natural endowments which did adorn a wicked mans soul, before the soul is hurled into hell, must be taken away from him. There is a kind of degradation of the soul, it is depriested […] were, and becomes like a degraded Knight that hath his honour taken from him. All the rich talents, and all the rich prizes that were put into the fools hand, shall be taken from him. Is there any moral virtue? Are there any common graces and natural endowments in the miserable soul? it shall be stripped of all, and packed to hell. You that have abused your learning and gifts that God hath given you, do you think that they shall go with you to hell? No such matter, you shall be very sots and dunces there. All your learning shall be taken from you, and you shall go to hell arrant blockheads. He that had fortitude in this world, shall not carry one drachm of it to hell: all his courage shall then be abased, and his cowardly heart shall faint for fear. Fortitude is a great advantage to a man in distress, but let not the damned soul expet the least advantage: his fortitude which he had whilst he was in the way, shall be taken from him. It may be he had patience in this world: Now patience is virtue unfit for hell, therefore shall that be taken from him. A man if he were in most exquisite torments, yet if he had patience, it would bear it up with head and shoulders (as we say) but this shall add to his torments, that