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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.
4. Add to all this, that he was not like us, He knew when, and by what death he should die: He knew in all the time of his suffering what he should suffer, and what should come upon him at his death. If any of us should know that he must die a cursed, shameful, and painful death, and knew when it should be, it would mar all our mirth, and put us to our dumps in the midst of our jollity. Our Saviour in the midst of all his joy on earth, saith, I have a Baptism to be baptized with: he knew the cruel death which he should suffer on the Cross. And how is he pained, till it be accomplished. The pains of it run through all his life, and might well make his whole life uncomfortable unto him. In the twelfth of John 23. a little before the Passover, saith he, The hour is come that the Son of man shall be glorified: and then verse 27. Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. When the time was drawing nigh, some five or six days before, the consideration of it troubled him, though he knew he should be glorified, yet the fright of it enwrapped ⟨p. 384⟩him with fear. Now is my soul troubled; what shall I say, Father, save me from this hour. Such a kind of life did our Saviour lead: few but evil were his days. As evil as few, he had no comfort in them.
4. Add to all this, that he was not like us, He knew when, and by what death he should die: He knew in all the time of his suffering what he should suffer, and what should come upon him at his death. If any of us should know that he must die a cursed, shamefull, and painfull death, and knew when it should be, it would marr all our mirth, and put us to our dumps in the midst of our jollity. Our Saviour in the midst of all his joy on earth, saith, I have a Baptism to be baptized with: he knew the cruel death which he should suffer on the Cross. And how is he pained, till it be accomplished. The pains of it run through all his life, and might well make his whole life uncomfortable unto him. In the twelft of John 23. a little before the Passover, saith he, The hour is come that the Son of man shall be glorified: and then verse 27. Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. When the time was drawing nigh, some five or six days before, the consideration of it troubled him, though he knew he should be glorified, yet the fright of it enwrapt ⟨p. 384⟩