A64642:546
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.
the difference is this, The temporary believers will have Christ while God is slaying of them, whilst they are in the furnace of afflictions: but the other in cold blood when Gods hand is not on them. The true believer is sick of love, and when he hath no affliction, nor Gods hand on him, ⟨p. 390⟩with the Apostle, he accounts all things dung and dross for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. There's an ardent desire when this external cause draws not. If when thou art out of the forge, thou hast thy heart softened, and findest this work of grace and faith to drive thee to Christ, thou hast a faith unfeigned, and so the faith of Gods elect.
the difference is this, The temporary believers will have Christ while God is slaying of them, whil'st they are in the furnace of afflictions: but the other in cold blood when Gods hand is not on them. The true believer is sick of love, and when he hath no affliction, nor Gods hand on him, ⟨p. 390⟩with the Apostle, he accounts all things dung and drosse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. There's an ardent desire when this external cause draws not. If when thou art out of the forge, thou hast thy heart softned, and findest this work of grace and faith to drive thee to Christ, thou hast a faith unfeigned, and so the faith of Gods elect.
Again, there is not only this desire in him who hath a temporary faith; but having understood the Word, he so desires it, that when he knows there is no having Christ, nor happiness or salvation by him, unless he deny himself, and part from his evil ways, being persuaded of this, out of self-love he would have Christ; and seeing these be the terms, that he must turn a new leaf, and lead a new life, or go to hell, therefore he will do this too; this is much▪ yet I say, he doth this too; but how shall this be proved? most evidently in