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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.
But what is sin nothing? Will God damn a man, and send him to hell for nothing?
But what is sinne nothing? Will God damne a man, and send him to hell for nothing?
I answer; its not such a nothing as you make it; a man is not damned for nothing. It's a nothing privative, an absence of that that should be, and that a man ought to have. As when a Scholar is whipped for not saying his lesson, is he whipped think you for nothing? indeed he hath nothing, he can't say a word of his lesson, and therefore it is he is whipped; it is for a thing he ought to have, and hath not. Well, if you will say there are two parts of justification, do if you please; but this I take to be the more proper and genuine explanation.
I answer; its not such a nothing as you make it; a man is not damned for nothing. It's a nothing privative, an absence of that that should be, and that a man ought to have. As when a Scholar is whip't for not saying his lesson, is he whip't think you for nothing? indeed he hath nothing, he can't say a word of his lesson, and therefore it is he is whip't; it is for a thing he ought to have, and hath not. Well, if you will say there are two parts of justification, do if you please; but this I take to be the more proper and genuine explanation.
Besides, it appears by testimony of the Apostle, Rom. 4.6. As David describeth the blessedness of the ⟨p. 401⟩man to whom the Lord imputeth righteousness without works, &c. Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. The Apostle cites the Prophet David,