A64642:380
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.
3. He led a life subject to dangers, when he went amongst his own people, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, they bring him upon an high hill, to the brow thereof, with a purpose to cast him down, and break his neck. Others threaten to kill him too. The Devil here follows him with temptations, even to Idolatry ⟨p. 383⟩it self. Ma•. 4.6. The Devil himself tempts him forty days, and then left him: not as if he would return and tempt him no more, but as St. Luke renders it, The Devil left him for a season, Luke 4. not as if he intended to leave him quite, but to come and try him again. The Scribes and Pharisees they tempt him too, and prove him with hard questions, which if he could not answer, they would proclaim him an insufficient man, and all the people would have laughed him to scorn. Nor was this all his Ministry. All his life was as it were paved with temptations, every step was as it were a gin and trap to ensnare him.
3. He led a life subject to dangers, when he went amongst his own people, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, they bring him upon an high hill, to the brow thereof, with a purpose to cast him down, and break his neck. Others threaten to kill him too. The Devil here follows him with temptations, even to Idolatry ⟨p. 383⟩it self. Ma•. 4.6. The Devil himself tempts him forty days, and then left him: not as if he would return and tempt him no more, but as St. Luke renders it, The Devil left him for a season, Luke 4. not as if he intended to leave him quite, but to come and try him again. The Scribes and Pharisees they tempt him too, and prove him with hard questions, which if he could not answer, they would proclaim him an insufficient man, and all the people would have laugh'd him to scorn. Nor was this all his Ministry. All his life was as it were paved with temptations, every step was as it were a gin and trap to ensnare him.