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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.
Add to all that hath been said these two things.
1. The torment shall be everlasting, you shall desire to die, that your torments may have end: And here you may expect that I should say something of the eternity of the torments of the damned; ⟨p. 155⟩but I am not able, nor any one else sufficiently to express it: It shall continue ten thousand thousand years, and after that an hundred thousand times ten thousand, and yet be no nearer end then at the first beginning. Thou must think of it seriously thy self, and pray to God to reveal it to thy soul, for none else sufficiently can.
1. The torment shall be everlasting, you shall desire to die, that your torments may have end: And here you may expect that I should say something of the eternity of the torments of the damned; ⟨p. 155⟩but I am not able, nor any one else sufficiently to express it: It shall continue ten thousand thousand yeares, and after that an hundred thousand times ten thousand, and yet be no nearer end then at the first beginning. Thou must think of it seriously thy self, and pray to God to reveal it to thy soul, for none else sufficiently can.
2. But besides, as it is everlasting, so is it unabateable. If a man were cast into a fire, the fire coming about him, would in short time blunt his senses, and take away his feeling, and besides, the materials of the fire would soon spend and waste: But it is not so here, here is not the least abatement of the horror, nor the least inch of torment taken away throughout all eternity. It was a poor request of Dives (one would think) that Lazarus would dip the tip of his finger in water and cool his tongue: A cold comfort, but one drop of water for the present, which would soon be dried, and yet that is denied him, he must have no abatement of his torment. Nor is there any abatement of thy feeling, but thou art kept in full strength, and as long as God is God shall Tophet burn, and thou feel it.