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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.
But now there is another love of Complacency, which is a likeness between the qualities and manners of persons: for like will to like: and this love God never hath but to his Saints after Conversion, when they have his Image instamped in them, and are reformed in their Understandings and Wills, resembling him in both, then, and not till then bears he this love towards them. Before he loves them with the love of pity: and so God loved the world, that is, with the love of Commiseration, that he sent his only Son, that whosoever believed in him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
But now there is another love of Complacency, which is a likeness between the qualities and manners of persons: for like will to like: and this love God never hath but to his Saints after Conversion, when they have his Image instamped in them, and are reformed in their Understandings and Wills, resembling him in both, then, and not till then bears he this love towards them. Before he loves them with the love of pity: and so God lov'd the world, that is, with the love of Commiseration, that he sent his only Son, that whosoever believed in him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Now we come to the point of Acceptation: the Word is free, and it requires nothing but what may ⟨p. 416⟩consist with the freest gift that may be given. Although here be something that a man may startle at.
Object. Is there not required a condition of faith, and a condition of obedience?