A64642:534
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. What this justification is. For it is not so easy a matt•• neither.
2. What this justification is. For it is not so easie a matt•• neither.
1. Concerning the nature of faith, I have spoken sufficiently already wherein it consists; but yet notwithstanding, there is a certain thing as like this faith as may be, and yet comes short of it. Many there are who are like the foolish Virgins, that thought they were well enough, and thought they should come time enough. So many think, verily they have faith, yea and perchance go with such a persuasion to their ⟨p. 384⟩very graves, and think they have grace, and that they labour after Christ, and lay hold on him, and are free from worldly pollutions, so as that they have a taste and relish of the joy of the world to come, and yet are carried all this while in a fools Paradise, and think there is no fear of their safety, never knowing that they are cast-aways, till they come to the gates of hell, and find themselves by woeful experience shut out of heaven. And their case is woeful that are thus deceived. Know then that it is not every faith that justifies a man; a man may have faith, and yet not be justified. The Faith that justifies, is the Faith of Gods Elect, Tit. 1.1. there is a faith that may belong to them that are not Gods elect, but that faith does not justify. In the Epistle to Timothy, that faith which justifies, must be a Faith unfeigned, 1 Tim. 1.5. 2 Tim. 1.5, Now here's the skill of a Christian to try what that faith is which justifies him. Now this justifying faith is not every work of Gods Spirit in a mans heart: for there are supernatural operations of the Spirit in a mans heart, that are but temporary, that carry him not through, and therefore are ineffectual: but the end of this faith is the salvation of our souls. We read in Scripture of Apostasy, and falling back. Now, they cannot be Apostates that were never in the way of truth. This being an accident, we must have a subject for it; Now there is a certain kind of people that have supernatural workings; some that are drawn up and down with every wind of Doctrine; these are they that have this cold and temporary faith; temporary, because in the end it discovers it self to be a thing not constant and permanent. We read in