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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.
yet till Gods Spirit convince us, and show it us, and make us know it, we sleep secure, are not afraid, but think our selves the freest men in the world, and see not this to be a time of need: This therefore is the first preparative, when God brings his people by Mount Sinai, Heb. 12.18. For you are not come unto the Mountain that may be touched, and that burned by fire, nor unto the blackness and darkness, and tempest: so Gal. 4. Mount Sinai is made a figure of the Law, which begets bondage. Not that Mount which might be touched, and that burnt with fire, where was the sound of the Trumpet, and voice of words, such a sound as never before was heard, nor never will be till one day we shall hear the same. The sound of the Trumpet which sounded at the delivery of the Law, Exod. 19.19. where it is described; for when the voice of the Trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, that Moses heard, it was such a noise, a great noise at first, but it grew higher and and higher, and at last it came to that height that it was almost incomprehensible; then Moses spake: And what spake he? The Holy Ghost sets not down what he spake in that place. Look in Heb. 12.21. So terrible was the voice, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: Such a kind of lightning and loud voice this was; the Lord commands such a voice as this, Isaiah 58.1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a Trumpet, and show my people their ⟨p. 366⟩transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. When God shall sound with the voice of the Trumpet of his holy Word, of his Law, and show thee that thou art a traitorous Rebel, and that there is an Execution gone out against thee, body and goods: when God sounds thus to the deaf ear of a carnal man, then cometh the spirit of bondage of necessity on him, which shows that we have a time of need. The Law must have this operation before thou comest to the Throne of grace. None will fly to the City of Refuge, till the revenger of blood be hard at his heels: Nor any to Christ till he sees his want: Thus the Lord makes us know our need by turning the edge of his Axe towards us. Offenders when they are brought to the bar at Westminster for Treason, have the edge of the Axe turned from them; but when they have received the sentence of condemnation, and are carried back to the Tower, the edge of the Axe is turned towards them. Thus is it here;