A64642:586
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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But here we must understand this as we do some other Scriptures; we read in John, that the blind see, the lame walk, the dumb speak. It's impossible for a man to be blind and see, to be dumb and speak all at once; yet take the chief of sinners, suppose Paul, and he was so in his own account; but the act of justification alters him. God justifies the ungodly, that is, him that was even now so; but by the imputation ⟨p. 412⟩of Christs righteousness he is made righteous, that is, righteous in Gods account.
But here we must understand this as we do some other Scriptures; we read in John, that the blinde see, the lame walk, the dumb speak. It's impossible for a man to be blinde and see, to be dumb and speak all at once; yet take the chief of sinners, suppose Paul, and he was so in his own account; but the act of justification alters him. God justifies the ungodly, that is, him that was even now so; but by the imputation ⟨p. 412⟩of Christs righteousnesse he is made righteous, that is, righteous in Gods account.
But in proceeding in this point I did reflect a little back. God finds a man with a number of sins, full of sin, and forgives these sins; now I demanded this; how far doth this justification and forgiveness extend? to sins past alone, or to sins past and to come? And I answered that we must consider this matter two ways.
But in proceeding in this point I did reflect a little back. God findes a man with a number of sinnes, full of sinne, and forgives these sinnes; now I demanded this; how farre doth this justification and forgivenesse extend? to sins past alone, or to sinnes past and to come? And I answered that we must consider this matter two wayes.