A64642:371
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.
And that is a part of our Saviours humiliation, that he was cut off in the middle of his days. If we look into the Psalm, we shall find it a curse on the bloody and deceitful man, that he shall not li•e out half his days. The lively part of a mans age, (from Moses his time to this day, in that Psalm of Moses, Psalm 90.) is threescore years and ten; half this is thirty five years; and our Saviour is taken off before this thirty five is expired. He was to take on him all the curses due to sinners, to the bloody and deceitful man: he ⟨p. 379⟩is cut off and cropped off in the midst of his vigour: he that is that Melchizedek, •hat hath neither beginning, nor end of days, was cut off as a branch, lopped off as a •wig from the land of the li•ing, I•a. 53. He's •ul'd cut, so his days were few, far fewer th•n Jacobs: he was not suffered to live out half his days: yet if we look upon his days they were evil too: evil enough as few as they were: full of trouble, and full of misery: from his first coming into the world to his last going out.
And th•t is a part of our Saviours humiliation, that he was cut off in the mid•l of his dayes. If we look into the Psalm, we shall find it a curse on the bloody and deceitfull man, that he shall not li•e out half his dayes. The livelie part of a mans age, (from Moses his time to this day, in that Psalm of Moses, Psalm 90.) is •hreescore years and ten; half this is thirty five years; and our Saviour is taken off before this thirty five is expired. He was to take on him all the curses due to sinners, to the bloody and deceitfull man: he ⟨p. 379⟩