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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.
7. If we come now to the time he lived after he came from his Father and Mother, that same three years when he showed himself more publicly in the world, and you shall find him subject to those dangers, difficulties and distresses which accompany evil days. He was a Pilgrim, and had no abode. The Foxes ha•e holes, and the birds of the air, nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head. He was a diligent Preacher of the Gospel, although he had neither Prebend, nor Parsonage; he had nothing of his own, but was relieved often by the Charity of ⟨p. 382⟩certain devout and religious women.
7. If we come now to the time he lived after he came from his Father and Mother, that same three years when he shewed himself more publickly in the world, and you shall find him subject to those dangers, di•ficulties and distresses which accompany evil dayes. He was a Pilgrim, and had no abode. The Foxes ha•e holes, and the birds of the air, nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head. He was a diligent Preacher of the Gospel, although he had neither Prebend, nor Parsonage; he had nothing of his own, but was relieved often by the Charity of ⟨p. 382⟩certain devout and religious women.
2. Besides all the reproaches that could be cast on a man, were laid on him; This man is a Wine-bibber, and a Glutton; a friend of Publicans and sinners. And again, Do we not say, well, thou art a Samaritan, that is, a Heretic? He was a caster out of Devils; and therein they denied not, but he did good, but see the villainy of it: he was a good witch, as we call them, and though he did good, yet it was by the help of Beelzebub: when he drew near his death; see