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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.
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 ⟨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.
But now (Beloved) there is a way to escape this misery, and that is by Jesus Christ, Mat. 1.21. He was for this end called Jesus, because he saves his people from their sins, and consequently from wrath: which how it is done I shall show in a word, and that is 1. By Christ Jesus offered for us. And 2. By Christ Jesus offered to us.