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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.
PHIL. 2.5, 6, 7, 8. Let this mind be in you, which also was in Jesus Christ, who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion of a man, he humbled himself unto the death, even the death of the Cross.
YOU have heretofore heard that point of Christian Doctrine which concerns the knowledge of our misery, and wretched estate by nature. The substance of all is, That we are the Children of wrath and disobedience as well as others. You see then in what state every man stands, before he hath made his peace with God: as long as he stands on terms of Rebellion. You see what the Holy Ghost saith, They are the sons of disobedience, and Children of wrath ⟨p. 354⟩as well as others. This I tell you (as hath often been declared) not to discourage a sinner, or to drive him to desperation, but because it's fit he should know his estate in which he is. If they will try conclusions with God, if they oppose him, the Lord cometh with a Bar of Iron, and will break them in pieces like a Potters vessel. Those mine enemies that will not have me to reign over them, bring them, and slay them before me. It is fit every man should know this; This part is only for this end, that it may awaken us, otherwise to what purpose do we preach unto you? Till the Law awaken us, we sleep securely in our sins, till the dreadful Trumpet of mount Sinai comes with thundering and lightning; as Eph. 4. Awake thou that sleepest, &c. Unless this awaken us, in what case are we? Men as sleepers, that are a dreaming, as the Apostle speaks, Jude 8. A sleeping sinner will be a dreaming sinner: he never sees things as they are in their proper shape: but he thinks with the Church of Laodicea, That he is rich, and wants nothing, when as he is poor, miserable, blind and naked. He thinks he shall be admitted into heaven as soon as the proudest: but this is a dream: