A64642:308
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.
There is yet one thing more, the wicked shall not only be banished from Gods gracious presence, and cast into Hell, but this shall be done in the sight of Heaven. The glorious Saints of God have continually a sight of Gods justice upon sinners, that they may glorify his mercy the more. The Scripture runs much to this purpose, Rev. 14.10. If any man worship the beast and his image, the same shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of God and of his holy Angels. This in the 9th verse is the portion of them that worship the beast, that is the Pope, and receive the mark of his name. That is, if any will be an express public or private Papist, if any one will be a slave to the Pope, see his portion, he shall drink of the ⟨p. 148⟩wine of the wrath of God, and be banished from the society of holy Angels, and be tormented with hell-fire in their presence. Oh what a vexation will this be to the damned when they shall see others in heaven, and themselves shut out of door? This will cause weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It will go to their very heart, when they shall see Moses and Aaron and the Prophets and holy Saints in joy and glory, and shall consider and remember, that if they had made use of these means and opportunities of grace, they might have lived in Heaven too, whereas now they must be everlastingly tormented in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, and that without any hope of recovery. 2 Thess. 1.9. Punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. You know that by the Law of Moses, whensoever an offender was to receive his strokes, Deut. 25 2, 3. The Judge was to cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, and he himself was to see it done. So when God comes to give the damned their strokes in hell (for hell is the place of execution, wherein he that knows his masters will and doth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes,) he himself will see them beaten in the presence of all his holy Angels; and if so, how shameful will their punishment be? when there shall be so many thousand witnesses of it, when they shall be made (as we say) the worlds wonder. These are they that shall rise to everlasting contempt,