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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.
A word now concerning these Sermon Notes of his, by occasion of the publishing whereof I have thus enlarged.
A word now concerning these Sermon Notes of his, by occasion of the publishing whereof I have thus inlarged.
I suppose whosoever readeth and well considereth the two prefixed Epistles, one in Latin, the other in English, and the Arguments therein contained, and knoweth the Reverend Framers of them, (for such testimonies are as the Testes) when he considereth I say, 1. Their High Esteem of the most famous Preacher of them. 2. The mighty power of God upon themselves, and many others when they were preached, 3. The care they took to put them forth, 4. The ingenuous owning of any infirmities which the Reader may charge that seems not to speak himself in the Publication of them, He will not think either the will of the most Learned Bishop broken, or the Caution of the Learned and Reverend Dr. that writes his life not heeded, viz. That if any sermon notes taken from him have been printed in his life time under his name, *or shall be hereafter (which divers have of late attempted) the Reader is to take notice that it was ⟨image 17⟩against his mind, and that they are disowned by him, which as he endeavoured to his utmost to suppress while he was living, so it was his fear to be injured in it after his death; For
I suppose whosoever readeth and well considereth the two prefixed Epistles, one in Latine, the other in English, and the Arguments therein contained, and knoweth the Reverend Framers of them, (for such testimonies are as the Testes) when he considereth I say, 1. Their High Esteem of the most famous Preacher of them. 2. The mighty power of God upon themselves, and many others when they were preached, 3. The care they took to put them forth, 4. The ingenuous owning of any infirmities which the Reader may charge that seemes not to speak himself in the Publication of them, He will not think either the will of the most Learned Bishop broken, or the Caution of the Learned and Reverend Dr. that writes his life not heeded, viz. That if any sermon notes taken from him have been printed in his life time under his name,