A64642:576
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 use of it is in brief this, faith is not in all these. All have not faith; yet some come so near, and have faith so like that it will trouble a wise man to make the distinction. These are like the foolish Virgins, that lived very civilly, and kept their maiden-heads in regard of the world; none could accuse them for any evil they had done; yet they are at length shut out. Many think themselves in a good way, and a safe condition, yea, and go out of the world in this conceit, and think they are entering into the gate of heaven, till they in a moment are cast down to hell: Try we therefore, search and sift our selves; if this grace were as grass that grows in every field, it were something; but it is a precious flower, which if we have not, Christ profiteth us nothing. This is the means of Christs being applied unto thee; how doth it therefore behoove every one of us to look to it, and not to slubber over the matter slightly, but to search ⟨p. 407⟩and try, and examine our selves. And in the marks I showed you before that it was such a thing as may be likened to a conception which never comes to the birth; such a thing is this temporary faith.
The use of it is in brief this, faith is not in all these. All have not faith; yet some come so near, and have faith so like that it will trouble a wise man to make the distinction. These are like the foolish Virgins, that lived very civilly, and kept their maiden-heads in regard of the world; none could accuse them for any evil they had done; yet they are at length shut out. Many think themselves in a good way, and a safe condition, yea, and go out of the world in this conceit, and think they are entring into the gate of heaven, till they in a moment are cast down to hell: Try we therefore, search and sift our selves; if this grace were as grasse that grows in every field, it were something; but it is a precious flower, which if we have not, Christ profiteth us nothing. This is the means of Christs being applied unto thee; how doth it therefore behoove every one of us to look to it, and not to slubber over the matter slightly, but to search ⟨p. 407⟩and try, and examine our selves. And in the marks I shew'd you before that it was such a thing as may be likened to a conception which never comes to the birth; such a thing is this temporary faith.