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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.
2. To help our Memory; we art apt to forget those wonderful things Christ hath wrought for us. And therefore, verse 24. and 25. Of this Chapter we are bid To eat his body, and drink his blood in remembrance ⟨p. 435⟩of him. To take the signs as tokens of him; the Sacrament is as it were a monument and pillar raised up to the end, that when ever we see it, we should remember the Lords death until he come. Its said, 2 Sam. 8.18. That Absalom in his life time had taken, and reared up for himself a Pillar which is in the Kings dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. He would fain be remembered, but he had no Child whereby he might live after he was dead: therefore he raises it, and calls it after his own name, Absaloms place, as it is this day: that so as often as any came that way, they might remember him. Christ doth thus by his Sacrament, and erects it as a Monument for the remembrance of his death, and as it were calls it by his own name, saying, This is my body, and this is my blood: that when ever we see them, we may call to mind, Christ offered for us, and to us. But that I may apply this my Doctrine to the ears also, know that,
2. To help our Memory; we art apt to forget those wonderfull things Christ hath wrought for us. And therefore, verse 24. and 25. Of this Chapter we are bid To eat his body, and drink his blood in remembrance ⟨p. 435⟩of him. To take the signs as tokens of him; the Sacrament is as it were a monument and pillar raised up to the end, that when ever we see it, we should remember the Lords death untill he come. Its said, 2 Sam. 8.18. That Absolon in his life time had taken, and reared up for himself a Pillar which is in the Kings dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. He would fain be remembred, but he had no Child whereby he might live after he was dead: therefore he raises it, and calls it after his own name, Absolons place, as it is this day: that so as often as any came that way, they might remember him. Christ doth thus by his Sacrament, and erects it as a Monument for the remembrance of his death, and as it were calls it by his own name, saying, This is my body, and this is my blood: that when ever we see them, we may call to mind, Christ offered for us, and to us. But that I may apply this my Doctrine to the ears also, know that,