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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.
5. Hence we may conceive in what state our Saviour ⟨p. 381⟩lived till he came into the Ministry: questionless in a poor house: and he made many a hungry m•al, when his mother was not worth a Lamb. All that they had, must be by hard labour.
5. Hence we may conceive in what state our Saviour ⟨p. 381⟩lived till he came into the Ministry: questionless in a poor house: and he made many a hungry m•al, when his mother was not worth a Lamb. All that they had, must be by hard labor.
6. Now our Saviour, notwithstanding after he had travelled that weary journey to Jerusalem, must return again, and be subject to his Parents: but how? even as a servant in his Trade. They had not bread to spare, but what was gotten by hard laborious work. At his Fathers Trade, I say, for so its said of him, Is not this the Carpenter? Its put in the nominative case, The Carpenter. Mark 6. And whereas this is cast as a curse on our first parents, and their seed. Gen. 3.49. That in the sweat of their brows they should eat their bread. Our Saviour must undergo this curse too: he must work hard for his living: with his own hands he must get a living for himself, and his poor mother by a laborious Trade. No wonder if he went many a morning without his break-fast, and made many a hungry meal, that lived in so poor a house, and by so poor a Trade.