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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.
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.
Obj. But (may some say) this is preaching indeed, this would affright a man, and make him out of his wits: this is the way to make him go hang him self, sooner then be converted.
Obj. But (may some say) this is preaching indeed, this would affright a man, and make him out of his wits: this is the way to make him goe hang him self, sooner then be converted.
Sol. True, should God let loose the cord of our conscience, it were the way (such would be the terrors of it) to make a man find another cord, did not God restrain him. I desire not by ⟨p. 156⟩this to hurt you, but to save you. I am a messenger not sent from Abraham (as Dives entreated) but from the God of Abraham, to forewarn you that you come not to that place of torment.
Sol. True, should God let loose the cord of our conscience, it were the way (such would be the terrours of it) to make a man find another cord, did not God restrain him. I desire not by