A64642:303
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.
To die, is esteemed far worse then to be dead, in regard of the pangs that are in dying, to which death puts an end. This temporal death is in an instant, but this other eternal, whereby we are ever dying, and never dead, for by it we are punished with an everlasting [Greek or Hebrew], 2 Thess. 1.9. and that from the presence of the Lord by the glory of his power. Then which place I have no need to add more; for, as much as can be s•id of men and Angels is fully comprehended in it. The Apostle terms this a fearful thing indeed, Heb. 2.15. whereon if a man but think (if he hath his wits about him) he would for fear of it be all his life long subject to bondage. He would scarce draw any free breath, but would still be studying how to avoid it, and would still be in bondage and drudgery till he were delivered. Thus I have declared the nature of the place, and of this second death.
To die, is esteemed far worse then to be dead, in regard of the pangs that are in dying, to which death puts an end. This temporal death is in an instant, but this other eternal, whereby we are ever dying, and never dead, for by it we are punished with an everlasting 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 2 Thess. 1.9. and that from the presence of the Lord by the glory of his power. Then which place I have no need to adde more; for, as much as can be s•id of men and Angels is fully comprehended in it. The Apostle terms this a fearful thing indeed, Heb. 2.15. whereon if a man but think (if he hath his wits about him) he would for fear of it be all his life long subject to bondage. He would scarce draw any free breath, but would still be studying how to avoid it, and would still be in bondage and drudgery till he were delivered. Thus I have declared the nature of the place, and of this second death.