A64642:554
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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2. And so I come now to the point of justification, the greatest of all blessings: Blessed is he (saith David) whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered; blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity; it's the most blessed condition as can be; it is set down by way of Exclamation. O the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity! For justification, see what it is; the Scripture in St. Pauls Epistles, speaks of justification by faith; and in St. James, of justification by works. Now it will be useful for us in this point to know whence justification comes; it comes from justice, Tsedeck as the Original hath it, and to justify; so that justification and righteousness depend one upon the other; for what is justification but the manifestation of the righteousness that is in a man? and therefore in Gal. 3.21. they are put for one and the same thing: For if there had been a Law given which could have given life, verily righteousness had been by the Law; that is, justification had been by the Law. Again, If righteousness be by the Law, then Christ is dead ⟨p. 397⟩in vain. Gal. 2. that is also if justification had been by the Law, &c. justification is a manifestation of righteousness; and as many ways as righteousness is taken, so many ways is justification, which is a declaration of righteousness; so that if there be a double righteousness, there must be also a double justification; Beloved, I bring you no new doctrine; be not afraid of that; but I show you how to reconcile places of Scripture against the Church of Rome, and those things which the Papists bring against us in this point. It stands by reason, seeing justification is a declaration of righteousness, that there must be so many sorts of justification as there be of righteousness.
2. And so I come now to the point of justification, the greatest of all blessings: Blessed is he (saith David) whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sinne is covered; blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity; it's the most blessed condition as can be; it is set down by way of Exclamation. O the blessednesse of the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity! For justification, see what it is; the Scripture in St. Pauls Epistles, speaks of justification by faith; and in St. James, of justification by works. Now it will be useful for us in this point to know whence justification comes; it comes from justice, Tsedeck as the Original hath it, and to justifie; so that justification and righteousnesse depend one upon the other; for what is justification but the manifestation of the righteousnesse that is in a man? and therefore in