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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.
and hadst thou faith, thou wouldst not fear. When word was brought to the house of Jacob, that two Kings were come up into the Land to invade it, Isaiah 7.2. it is said his heart was moved, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. But what is the remedy of this fear? See Isaiah 8.12. Fear not their fear, nor be afraid (that was a false and a base fear) sanctify the Lord in your hearts, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. Isaiah 51.12. there is an object of our faith and comfort, and a remedy against fear proposed: I, even I, am he that comforteth thee: who art thou that shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die, and the son of man that is as grass? What, art thou one that hast God on thy side? how unworthy art thou of that high favour, if thou fear man? The greatest man that lives cannot shield himself from death, and from a covering of worms, and wilt thou be afraid of a man, and forget the Lord thy Maker? The more thou art taken up with the fear of man, the less thou fearest God; and the more thou rememberest ⟨p. 142⟩man, the more thou forgettest thy Maker.
and hadst thou faith, thou wouldst not fear. When word was brought to the house of Jacob, that two Kings were come up into the Land to invade it, Esay 7.2. it is said his heart was moved, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. But what is the remedy of this fear? See Esay 8.12. Fear not their fear, nor be afraid (that was a false and a base fear) sanctifie the Lord in your hearts, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. Esay 51.12. there is an object of our faith and comfort, and a remedy against fear proposed: I, even I, am he that comforteth thee: who art thou that shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die, and the son of man that is as grass? What, art thou one that hast God on thy side? how unworthy art thou of that high favour, if thou fear man? The greatest man that lives cannot shield himself from death, and from a covering of worms, and wilt thou be afraid of a man, and forget the Lord thy Maker? The more thou art taken up with the fear of man, the lesse thou fearest God; and the more thou remembrest ⟨p. 142⟩man, the more thou forgettest thy Maker.