A64642:340
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.
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.
Consider the invaluable price, how great he was, who being in the form of God, he who was fellow, and fellow-like with God, as good as himself, as great as himself, was thus humbled: It was the second person in the Trinity, he, and no other that was thus humbled for thee; He was weary for thee, and reviled for thee, sweated and fainted for thee; hungered for thee, and was buffeted for thee. It was he, the second person of the Trinity, in proper speech, without either Trope or Figure, shed his blood for thee, died for thee, and suffered all these things in his assumed nature, taking on him the form of a servant, though not in his divine. He remaining God alone, could not die, but yet die fain he would for thee, therefore he took thy nature on him, that he might die for thee in the assumed nature. He took not on him the nature of Angels, but the seed of Abraham. He being the fountain of life, and the Prince of our life, (and without shedding of blood no Redemption could be wrought) having not blood to shed as God, therefore took our nature on him, as it is; Heb. 10.5. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body thou hast prepared me, then said I, Jo, I come, in the volume of thy book it is written of me, to do thy Will O God. As if he should have said, Lord, I am not able to accomplish thy Will, or to be subject to thee in thy nature, therefore thou hast made me a man, that in the form of a servant, I might show