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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.
This is a great matter, but I tell you there is more; we are not only freed from the guilt of the punishment, but ⟨p. 420⟩which is higher, we are freed from the guilt of the fact. I am now no more a murderer, no more a liar; when I have received a pardon from the blood of Christ, he frees me from that charge, the world is changed with me now. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? If the Devil lay any thing to thee, thou mayst deny it. Such a one I was, but I am justified, but I am sanctified. A man hath committed High Treason against the King, and the King gives him a pardon for the Treason; if I call him a Traitor, he can have no remedy against me, for he is one; the pardon takes not away the guilt: But if his blood be restored unto him by Act of Parliament, then if I shall call him Traitor, he may have remedy against me, because he is restored fully, and is not liable to that disgrace. This is our case, though our sins be as red as scarlet, yet the die shall be changed; it shall not be so bloody: Thou hast the grace of justification, and this doth not only clear thee from the punishment, but from the fault it self; See in Jer. 50.20. the place is worth gold: In those days, and in that time saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve: what is the matter? what a sinful man, and no sin? what when there is search made for sin in such a man, shall it not be found? you will say this is meant of the grace of sanctification; no: I will pardon them, that pardoning of sin makes the sin not to be found. What a wonderful comfort is this? when I sh•ll come at t•e day of judgment, and have the benefit of my sanctification, the last absolution, such ⟨p. 421⟩sins shall not be charged on me, my sins and iniquities shall not be remembered. I will remember their sins no more, saith God; it is a wonderful thing, and a strange mistake in many men, especially the Papists; Did they ever write comfortably of the day of judgment? never; they make that a terrible day. Alas poor souls, they knew not that justification is that, that makes sinn•s that they shall never be remembered: Mark, it is said, Thou shalt hear of all thy good deeds for thy honour and thy praise;