A64642:595
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 you must understand, repentance is not an instrument at all; faith only is the instrument, •aith justifieth me from sin hereafter as well as before. The case is this, faith brings life. The righteous shall live by his faith, as the Prophet Habakkuk speaks.
But you must understand, repentance is not an instrument at all; faith only is the instrument, •aith justifyeth me from sinne hereafter as well as before. The case is this, faith brings life. The righteous shall live by his faith, as the Prophet Habakkuk speaks.
What doth then new sins do?
What doth then new sinnes do?
There are two sorts of sins; one of ordinary incursion, which cannot be avoided; these break no friendship betwixt God and us; these only weaken our faith, and make us worse at ease. But there are other sins which waste a mans conscience; A man that hath committed murder, adultery, and lives in covetousness, which (in the Apostles) is Idolatry; as long as a man is in this case, he cannot exercise the acts of faith; we must know faith justifieth not as an habit, but as an act applying Christ to the comfort of the soul. Now a wasting sin it stops the passage of faith, it cannot act till it be opened by repentance; Physicians give instances for it. Those that have Apoplexies, Epilepsies, and the Falling sickness, are thought to be dead for the time, as it was with Eutichus, yet saith Saint Paul, his spirit was in him. Every one thought him dead, yet his spirit is in him; however in regard of the operation of his senses it did appear he was dead. So, if thou art a careless man, and lookst not to thy watch, and to thy guard, but art overtaken in some gross and grievous sin, thou art taken for dead. I say not, a man can lose his life that once hath it; but yet in the apprehension of others, and of himself too, he may appear to be so. As in Epilepsies, the nerves are hindered by obstructions; so sin obstructs the nerves of the soul, that there