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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.
I have now faith, and I believe in Christ; I have now relation to him, and remission of sins past. But why then do I pray for it? to what end is that? Bellarmine objects that it is an act of infidelity to pray for it afterwards; but we do it, and we ought to do it; see Psal. 51. David made that Psalm after the Prophet Nathan had told him his sin was pardoned: See the title of it, (and we must know that the title is a part of Gods Word as well as the rest) A Psalm of David when Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in unto Bathsheba: Nathan told him that God had took away his sin: Yet he crieth here throughout the whole Psalm, to have his sin pardoned and blotted out; so that though there were faith and assurance, yet he still prays for it. Now Bellarmine saith, this cannot be; but doth he dispute against our opinion? no, he disputes against the Holy Ghost; for David having received a message of forgiveness, yet prays. Therefore if the Jesuit had grace, he would join with us to salve the matter, rather then through our sides to strike at God.
I have now faith, and I believe in Christ; I have now relation to him, and remission of sinnes past. But why then do I pray for it? to what end is that? Bellarmine objects that it is an act of infidelity to pray for it afterwards; but we do it, and we ought to do it; see Psal. 51. David made that Psalme after the Prophet Nathan had told him his sinne was pardoned: See the title of it, (and we must know that the title is a part of Gods Word as well as the rest) A Psalme of David when Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in unto Bathsheba: Nathan told him that God had took away his sinne: Yet he cryeth here throughout the whole Psalme, to have his sinne pardoned and blotted out; so that though there were faith and assurance, yet he still prays for it. Now Bellarmine saith, this cannot be; but doth he dispute against our opinion? no, he disputes against the Holy Ghost; for David having received a message of forgivenesse, yet prays. Therefore if the Jesuite had grace, he would joyne with us to salve the matter, rather then through our sides to strike at God.