A64642:304
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.
That I may now go farther, know that this ⟨p. 143⟩Lake and this place is the place that the Lord hath provided for his enemies: It is the Lords slaughter-house; its called a place of torments, Luke 16. a place wherein God will show the accomplishment of his wrath, and revenge upon his enemies, Those mine enemies that would not have me to reign over them, bring them forth, and slay them before my face. Those vessels of wrath, those rebels; the King is in raged, and his wrath is as the roaring of a Lyon, which makes all the beasts of the forrest to tremble, Prov. 19.12. And where there is the wrath of such a King, the issue thereof must needs be death, Prov. 16.14. The wrath of a King is as a messenger of death. How much more fearful is the wrath of the King of Kings. God hath sharp arrows, and he sets a wicked man as his Butt to shoot at, to show his strength, and the fierceness of his wrath. See the expression of Job in this case, The arrows of the Almighty stick fast in me, and the venom thereof hath drunk up my spirits: In so few words there could not be an higher expression of the wrath of God. First, that God should make thee a Butt, and then that thou shouldst be shot at, and that by Gods arrows: And then they are not shot by a child, but (as the man is, so is his strength) by the Almighty, by his bow, wherein he draws the arrow to the head. And then again these arrows are poisoned arrows, and such poison as shall drink up all thy soul and spirit: Oh, what a fearful thing is it to fall into the hands of such a God! It's a saying of Moses, Psal. 90.11. (for 'tis Moses Psal.) Who knoweth the power of thine anger? the power of ⟨p. 144⟩Gods anger is unknown. And so in his Song, Deut. 32.22. he sets it out in some measure. A fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn unto the lowest hell, &c. So that the King being thus provoked, is provoked to curse thee,