A64642:339
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. 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.
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 sorrowfull and pittifull pilgrimage; and at last to be cut off by a shamefull death from the land of the living: this humiliation hath no parallel.
The depth of the humiliation consists in the height of the person thus humbled; and were not he so high, it could have done us no good. ⟨p. 359⟩It's no small satisfaction that can appease Gods wrath, therefore the Apostle to the Hebrews speaking of Melchizedek, the type of Christ, concludes, how great this man was.
The depth of the humiliation consists in the height of the person thus humbled; and were not he so high, it could have done us no good. ⟨p. 359⟩It's no small satisfaction that can appease Gods wrath, therefore the Apostle to the Hebrews speaking of Melchisedeck, the type of Christ, concludes, how great this man was.