A64642:379
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.
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 Mark 12. the Text saith, They accuse him of many things. Few things are expressed, yet a great many comprehended in these words: those that are expressed, are heinous and notorious crimes. First, Against the first Table, they accuse him of Blasphemy, and therefore condemn him in the Ecclesiastical Court: Do you hear his Blasphemy? say they. Then against the second Table, they post him to the civil Court, and there they lay to his charge high Treason against Caesar: for he, say they, That maketh himself a King, is an enemy unto Caesar; and yet the innocent Lamb for all this opened not his mouth. Insomuch that Pilate wondered he spake not a word in his own defence; and the reason was, because he came to suffer, and to have all these slanders and reproaches put upon him, not to excuse himself.
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 Heretick? He was a caster out of Devils; and therein they denyed not, but he did good, but see the villany of it: he was a good witch, as we call them, and though he did good, yet it was by the help of Belze•ub: when he drew near his death; see Mark 12. the Text saith, They accuse him of many things. Few things are expressed, yet a great many comprehended in these words: those that are expressed, are hainous and notorious crimes. First, Against the first Table, they accuse him of Blasphemy, and therefore condemn him in the Ecclesiastical Court: Do you hear his Blasphemy? say they. Then against the second Table, they post him to the civil Court, and there they lay to his charge high Treason against Caesar: for he, say they, That maketh himself a King, is an enemy unto Caesar; and yet the innocent Lamb for all this opened not his mouth. Insomuch that Pilate wondred he spake not a word in his own defence; and the reason was, because he came to suffer, and to have all these slanders and reproaches put upon him, not to excuse himself.