A64642:357
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.
IN these words, and those that went before, you see there is delivered unto us the point of the humiliation of the Son of God. It stands in this.
1. That he took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man. God the Son, the second person in the Trinity did assume our dust and ashes, unto the Unity of his own sacred person.
2. This humane nature being thus assumed, he was content to deprive himself a long time of that beatifical vision, which he might have still enjoyed, & in that time was as obedient, as the meanest and poorest servant of his Father. Nor was he only actively, but passively ⟨p. 371⟩obedient; He was obedient unto the death: he was content to lay down his life for our Redemption. And it was not every death that would serve the turn, but it must be the death of the Cross, the most accursed, shameful and painful death, that death which was most suitable, and best able to answer the wrath of God.
2. This humane nature being thus assumed, he was content to deprive himself a long time of that beatifical vision, which he might have still enjoyed, & in that time was as obedient, as the meanest and poorest servant of his Father. Nor was he only actively, but passively ⟨p. 371⟩obedient; He was obedient unto the death: he was content to lay down his life for our Redemption. And it was not every death that would serve the turn, but it must be the death of the Cross, the most accursed, shamefull and painfull death, that death which was most suitable, and best able to answer the wrath of God.