A64642:375
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.
4. After the eight days are over, then come the forty days, and then he must be carried a long journey to be offered up to the Lord, and his mother, as if she had brought an unclean and impure thing into the world, must be cleansed and purified. And then she came to offer a sacrifice according to the Law of the Lord. Luke 2.24. A pair of turtle doves or two young Pigeons: But was this the Law? it were good if the Law were looked into. See Levit. 12.8. The Law is this, She shall bring a Lamb, or if she be not able to bring a Lamb, then two Turtles, or two young Pigeons. If she be not able; but the margin hath it, If her hand cannot reach to a Lamb, if she be so poor that she cannot offer a Lamb. As if the Text should have said, Alas poor woman, poor Lady, all she had was not able to reach to a Lamb, so poor was she: Doubtless her heart was as large as another's but she was not able to offer a Lamb, and is therefore content with two Turtles.
4. After the eight days are over, then come the forty days, and then he must be carried a long journey to be offered up to the Lord, and his mother, as if she had brought an unclean and impure thing into the world, must be cleansed and purified. And then she came to offer a sacrifice according to the Law of the Lord. Luke 2.24. A pair of turtle doves or two young Pigeons: But was this the Law? it were good if the Law were looked into. See Levit. 12.8. The Law is this, She shall bring a Lamb, or if she be not able to bring a Lamb, then two Turtles, or two young Pigeons. If she be not able; but the margent hath it, If her hand cannot reach to a Lamb, if she be so poor that she cannot offer a Lamb. As if the Text should have said, Alas poor woman, poor Lady, all she had was not able to reach to a Lamb, so poor was she: Doubtless her heart was as large as anothers but she was not able to offer a Lamb, and is therefore content with two Turtles.