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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.
Now for the former of these, which is Christs satisfaction made unto the Father for us, I made choice of this place of Scripture, which sets it out particularly. Herein two things are to be observed.
1. The person who it is that will thus humble himself: the Apostle grounds his Exhortation on the fourth verse, where he tells us, We ought not to look every man on his own things, but every man on the things of others. Let this mind be in you which also was in Christ Jesus. If Christ had looked only on his own things, he might have saved himself a great deal of labour and pains. He being the Son of God, might as soon as he was born have challenged a seat with God in Glory: He need not go per viam, He might be Comprehensor in meta: but he would pass on to his journeys end in a thorny and troublesome way: Let then the same mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, who minded not his own things, but the good of others.
1. The person who it is that will thus humble himself: the Apostle grounds his Exhortation on the fourth verse, where he tels us, We ought not to look every man on his own things, but every man on the things of others. Let this mind be in you which also was in Christ Jesus. If Christ had looked only on his own things, he might have saved himself a great deal of labor and pains. He being the Son of God, might as soon as he was born have chalenged a seat with God in Glory: He need not go per viam, He might be Comprehensor in meta: but he would pass on to his journeyes end in a thorny and troublesome way: Let then the same mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, who minded not his own things, but the good of others.
2. What it was wherein he humbled himself, he took upon him the form of a servant, and was obedient unto the death of the Cross. The highest humiliation that can be, that he who is above all praise, whom Angels adored, that he should be brought from heaven to earth; and not only be a pilgrim there, but have a sorrowful and pitiful pilgrimage; and at last to be cut off by a shameful death from the land of the living: this humiliation hath no parallel.