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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.
If any man come to me, and hate not Father and mother, wife and children, and his own life also, he cannot be my Disciple. Do not think that our Saviour here would discourage men from love. Doth the God of love teach us hatred? The phrase in the Hebrew is loving less, as it is said, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated; that is, loved less. If a man hath two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have born Children, both the beloved and the hated. By hated is not meant, that the man hated one wife, but less loved her then the other; so if any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, and that is, if he love not all less then me; and that it is so, we may see it expounded by our Saviour. Mat. 10.37. He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me. There Christ expounds it. He that will follow Christ in calm weather and not in a storm, is not worthy ⟨p. 428⟩of him. Luke 14.28. Which of you intending to build a Tower, sitte•• not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? What is that to the purpose? See verse 33. So likewise whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my Disciple. Its a small matter to begin to be a Christian, unless you consider what it will cost you. Do you t•••k it a small matter to be the Kings son? think not on so great a business without consideration what it will cost you. It will be the denying of your own wills. You must be content to follow naked Christ nakedly: follow him in his persecution and tribulation, in his death and suffering, if thou wilt be conformable to him in glory. When this case comes, it makes many draw back, as the rich man in the Gospel, when he must forsake all, he drew back. When troubles arise, many are offended; so when it comes to a point of parting, they go back.
If any man come to me, and hate not Father and mother, wife and children, and his own life also, he cannot be my Disciple. Do not think that our Saviour here would discourage men from love. Doth the God of love teach us hatred? The phrase in the Hebrew is loving less, as it is said, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated; that is, loved less. If a man hath two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have born Children, both the beloved and the hated. By hated is not meant, that the man hated one wife, but less loved her then the other; so if any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, and that is, if he love not all less then me; and that it is so, we may see it expounded by our Saviour.