A64642:472
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.
1. One of revenge: for those that put Gods Seal to a wrong evidence, having no faith to make Christ his portion: in such a one its high treason to put forth his hand to this tree of life.
2. Another of chastisement, for such a one as hath repentance, and yet comes too unmannerly, and carries himself too carelessly at the Lords Table: at this the Apostle aims in the Text; not at that judgement of condemnation, but at a judgement to prevent damnation; And this appears in the words following, where we shall find the Apostle recounting up the particulars of this judgement of chastisement, For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, ver. 30. Mark what's the judgement he eats: why this? he's cast upon his bed of sickness into a Consumption perchance, or some other corporal disease; a cause Physicians seldom or ⟨p. 441⟩never look into: they look to Agues, Colds, or the like; they never once conjecture that their unworthy eating at the Lords Table, cast them into the disease, and was the principal cause of the malady. Nay death it self too often is the punishment of such bold attempts, so that all the Physicians in the world cannot cure them. And thus God inflicts temporal judgements to free them from eternal, as appears farther in the 32. ver. When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world, that is, we undergo a judgement of chastisement, to prevent the judgement of condemnation: which though it be a sharp and bitter pill, yet by the mercy of God we eat that whereby damnation is prevented. This judgement of condemnation is the portion of the profane person, who dares to meddle with that belongs not to him, against whom the Angel of the Lord with a flaming sword stands to keep the way of this tree of life. Those that come that have faith, yet coming unpreparedly, they eat judgment too, yet by Gods mercy it's that which preserves them from the damnation of the soul.
2. Another of chastisement, for such a one as hath repentance, and yet comes too unmannerly, and carries himself too carelesly at the Lords Table: at this the Apostle aims in the Text; not at that judgement of condemnation, but at a judgement to prevent damnation; And this appears in the words following, where we shall finde the Apostle recounting up the particulars of this judgement of chastisement, For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, ver. 30. Mark what's the judgement he eats: why this? he's cast upon his bed of sicknesse into a Consumption perchance, or some other corporal disease; a cause Physicians seldome or