A64642:32
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.
A Divine and Apostolical Bishop he was, and next to the Apostles, Evangelists, and Prophets, as great a Pastor and Teacher, and trusted with as much of Gods mind, as I believe any one since hath been.
An Ecclesiastical Bishop he was also, and the most able Moderator in Church assemblies: To him pertained the double honour for ruling well, and for Labouring in word and Doctrine: Famous were two of his Predecessors in that 1See of Armagh, in their Generations, the one for his sanctity, the other for his Learning, but both these Eminently met in him; John the Divine commendeth the Angel or Bishop of Ephesus, &c. and Ireland will do no less for this Angel or Bishop of Armagh.
An Ecclesiastical Bishop he was also, and the most able Moderator in Church assemblies: To him pertained the double honour for ruling well, and for Labouring in word and Doctrine: Famous were two of his Predecessors in that 1See of Armagh, in their Generations, the one for his sanctity, the other for his Learning, but both these Eminently met in him; John the Divine commendeth the Angel or Bishop of Ephesus, &c. and Ireland will do no lesse for this Angel or Bishop of Armagh.
- 1See Dr. Ber. Epist. to the Reader in his life and death, &c.
But for Popish Bishops, none was further off then he: Witness his Learned Writings against the Romish Synagogue, his Judgement within the bounds of a moderated Episcopacy; and when the Reader hath perused that