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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.
4. In the worst of our troubles, and midst of our afflictions, this •oy is so great, that it cannot be abated by any of them; •ea, it is so far from being abated by them, that they are a fuel to kindle it: we rejoice in affliction (saith the Apostle) that which would undo the ⟨p. 426⟩joy of a carnal man, is made the matter of this mans joy.
4. In the •orst of our troubles, and midst of our afflictions, this •oy is so great, that it cannot be abated by any of them; •ea, it is so far from being abated by them, that they are a fuel to kindle it: we rejoyce in affliction (saith the A•ostle) that which would undo the ⟨p. 426⟩joy of a carnal man, is made the matter of this mans joy.
Concerning the first of these; justification, that is the ground or foundation of all the rest; being justified by faith, that's the root and ground, without which there is no fruit, no peace, no joy, no hope, much less any kind of rejoicing in tribulation. Faith is that which seasoneth all; we must first be justified by faith, before we have any other comforts; for that's the first ground, the first rudiment of a Christian in the School of Christ.
Concerning the first of these; justification, that is the ground or foundation of all the rest; being justififyed by faith, that's the root and ground, without which there is no fruit, no peace, no joy, no hope, much lesse any kinde of rejoycing in tribulation. Faith is that which seasoneth all; we must first be justified by faith, before we have any other comforts; for that's the first ground, the first rudiment of a Chistian in the School of Christ.