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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.
Come we now to the point of his death, the last thing; and those things that did touch him therein, are the Curse, Shame, and pain of it. If there were any death more accursed, he must die that death: If any death more shameful, or more painful then other, he must die that. All these do concur in the death of our Saviour which he suffered, in that death of the Cross. It was the most accursed, most shameful, and most painful death as could be devised.
Come we now to the point of his death, the last thing; and those things that did touch him therein, are the Curse, Shame, and pain of it. If there were any death more accursed, he must die that death: If any death more shamefull, or more painfull then other, he must die that. All these do concur in the death of our Saviour which he suffered, in that death of the Cross. It was the most accursed, most shamefull, and most painfull death as could be devised.
First, For the Accursedness of it, there was no death that had a more peculiar curse on it then this. Howsoever all deaths are accursed when they light on one that is without Christ; but this death had a legal Curse: for as there was a legal uncleanness, so there was a legal Curse, and this was the curse annexed to the Cross; a type of that real Curse. Now the type of a real Curse, Was hanging on the tree: Thou shalt bury him that day, for he that is hanged on a tree is accursed by God, Deut. 21.23. so the Son of God was made a Curse for us, alluding unto this, Galat. And here we see the blessed Son of God, he in whom all the Nations of the earth are blessed: the fountain of all blessedness: We see him stand in so cursed a condition, to be made as it were as an Anathema, the highest degree of cursing that may be.
First, For the Accursedness of it, there was no death that had a more peculiar curse on it then this. Howsoever all deaths are accursed when they light on one that is without Christ; but this death had a legal Curse: for as there was a legal uncleanness, so there was a legal Curse, and this was the curse annexed to the Cross; a type of that real Curse. Now the type of a real Curse, Was hanging on the tree: Thou shalt bury him that day, for he that is haged on a tree is accursed by God,