A64642:311
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 of the sense succeeds. By the former we are deprived of all the joys and comforts of heaven & earth, of Mount Zion, shut out of the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, deprived of an innumerable company of Saints, of the general assembly and Church of the first-born, of God himself the Judge ⟨p. 150⟩of all, and the souls of the Saints made perfect. This shall make a sinner curse himself.
That of the sense succeeds. By the former we are deprived of all the joyes and comforts of heaven & earth, of Mount Sion, shut out of the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, depriv'd of an innumerable company of Saints, of the general assembly and Church of the first-born, of God himself the Judge ⟨p. 150⟩of all, and the souls of the Saints made perfect. This shall make a sinner curse himself.
Now follows the penalty of torments and sense. When Adam was banished out of Paradise, he had the wide world to walk in still; but it is not so here: Thou art not only cast out of heaven, but cast into hell, and art deprived of thy liberty for ever, 1 Pet. 3.19. It's said Christ preached to the spirits in prison, them that in the days of Noah were disobedient, and for this cause are now in prison. Hell is compared to a prison, and a prison indeed it is, and that an odious one. For,
Now follows the penalty of torments and sense. When Adam was banished out of Paradise, he had the wide world to walk in still; but it is not so here: Thou art not only cast out of heaven, but cast into hell, and art deprived of thy liberty for ever, 1 Pet. 3.19. It's said Christ preached to the spirits in prison, them that in the dayes of Noah were disobedient, and for this cause are now in prison. Hell is compar'd to a prison, and a prison indeed it is, and that an odious one. For,