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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.
2. He minded not his own things, if he had,1 he might have presently sat at Gods right hand, where is fullness of joy for evermore: but his bowels yearned on us, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in shape of a man, that is, as an ordinary man: We know what the nature of servitude is. Every man naturally desires liberty, but Christ that he might make thee free, was content to be bound as an Apprentice, and endure a servile estate. Christ both in respect of God and man took on him the form of a servant.
2. He minded not his own things, if he had,1 he might have presently sat at Gods right hand, where is fulness of joy for evermore: but his bowels yearned on us, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in shape of a man, that is, as an ordinary man: We know what the nature of servitude is. Every man naturally desires liberty, but Christ that he might make thee free, was content to be bound as an Apprentice, and endure a servile estate. Christ both in respect of God and man took on him the form of a servant.
- 1The second degree of his humiliation, that he might become a servant.
1. For him to be Gods servant was an Humiliation, though for us it be the greatest honour to be Gods servants. Saint Paul makes it his prime Epithet, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ. And David calls himself the servant of the Lord, O Lord I am thy servant, truly I am thy servant. But it was an Humiliation for Christ to become Gods servant. For him who thought it no robbery to be equal with God to become Gods servant, and to take a nature on him, that he might say, My Father is greater then I; behold my Father and I were one, but now taking on me a humane nature, I am made inferior to my Father, I am become his servant: Behold my servant in whom I am well pleased;