A64642:54
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
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Thirdly that had not this course been taken, a worse might have befallen, directly contrary to the will of the godly Bishop: For some of these notes were in the hands of divers persons, who were much taken with them, and much desired, (and it was feared might have endeavoured) a private printing of them, more imperfectly then now you have them. That faithful Minister mentioned in the frontispiece whose Latin Epistle is prefixed, having with much ado got this Copy out of their hands, thought (as the rest who have attested it 'twas much better to publish these as now you see them, then to endanger the creeping out of a more surreptitious Copy.
Thirdly that had not this course been taken, a worse might have befallen, directly contrary to the will of the godly Bishop: For some of these notes were in the hands of divers persons, who were much taken with them, and much desired, (and it was feared might have endeavoured) a private printing of them, more imperfectly then now you have them. That faithfull Minister mentioned in the frontispiece whose Latine Epistle is prefixed, having with much adoe got this Copy out of their hands, thought (as the rest who have attested it 'twas much better to publish these as now you see them, then to indanger the creeping out of a more surreptitious Copy.
The general subject of these Sermons is of Conversion, and so mightily did the Lord bless them, not only to the Edification and Consolation of very many, but also to the Conversion (as we have good cause to judge) of some.
The general subject of these Sermons is of Conversion, and so mightily did the Lord blesse them, not only to the Edification• and Consolation of very many, but also to the Conversion (as we have good cause to judge) of some.