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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.
3ly. God himself, he is highly offended and enraged at thee, and therefore comes and takes the matter into his own hand, and will himself be executioner ⟨p. 154⟩of his fury. There i• a passage in the Thess. to this purpose, which me thinks is more then can be spoken by men or Angels, Epist. 2. cap. 1. v. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Mark that, God whom thou hast so highly provoked to wrath, hath a strong hand and glorious power. He showed the glory of his power in the making the world, and all things in it, and all that infinite power which he hath manifested in the creation of heaven and earth, shall be engaged in the tormenting of a sinner. Were there a man that should lay a target of brass, or a target of steel on a block, and should then cleave all in sunder at a blow, this would sufficiently manifest his strength: So doth God make manifest his power in crushing thee to pieces. There are still new charges and discharges against sinners, to make his power therein manifest. What if God, willing to make his power known (saith the Apostle Rom. 9.) suffered a while the vessels prepared to destruction? God will manifest his power by the strength of his stroke on those that rebel against him. Hence proceedeth weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, which is a Metaphor taken from one either that hath a great coldness on him, or from the symptoms of a Fever.
3ly. God himself, he is highly offended and inraged at thee, and therefore comes and takes the matter into his own hand, and will himself be executioner ⟨p. 154⟩of his fury. There i• a passage in the Thess. to this purpose, which me thinks is more then can be spoken by men or Angels, Epist. 2. cap. 1. v. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Mark that, God whom thou hast so highly provoked to wrath, hath a strong hand and glorious power. He shew'd the glory of his power in the making the world, and all things in it, and all that infinite power which he hath manifested in the creation of heaven and earth, shall be engaged in the tormenting of a sinner. Were there a man that should lay a target of brasse, or a target of steel on a block, and should then cleve all in sunder at a blow, this would sufficiently manifest his strength: So doth God make manifest his power in crushing thee to pieces. There are still new charges and discharges against sinners, to make his power therein manifest. What if God, willing to make his power known (saith the Apostle