A64642:343
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.
Among men the Son hath the same specific nature with the Father, but not the same individual: but it is not so in the Divinity: the Father and the Son there have the self same individual nature. I and my Father are one, therefore there must be an equality. The Pharisees themselves could draw this conclusion, that if he were the Son of God, he was equal with God. John 5.18. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he said, God was his Father, making himself equal with God: A man would think how could that follow? He was but Gods Son: but Gods Son must be equal to the Father. In making himself Gods Son, he made himself equal with God: and therefore know upon this, and by this stands the point of our Redemption. If a pure and holy Angel had suffered never so much, it would not have availed for our Redemption. It is a price no man, nor Angel must meddle with all: It will require a greater Price. It was God himself that suffered in his ⟨p. 361⟩assumed nature: He, and no other person: (for we must understand, though Christ took on him the nature of a man, yet not the person of a man) here stands the point, the second person in the Trinity is the Suppositum of all this humiliation: and therefore observe when the point of suffering comes, there's a remarkable speech. Zach. 13.7. Saith the Son to the Father, it was against his heart to smite him: the expression is a lively one, it went to his heart to smite one that was his equal, that did him no wrong, Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow. You know of whom it is spoken by Mathew, Mat. 26.31. I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered. The Lord is ready to break him, Isa. 53. The sword was as it were unwilling to smite. The man that is my fellow? A blow lighting on Gods fellow, equal with God, of what value is it? Consider the difference betwixt a man and a man; The State of a Prince makes great odds between that is done to him, and that is done to another man. When David would adventure himself into the battle: Thou shalt, say they, go no more with us, least they quench the light of Israel,