A64642:621
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.
Be ye kind one to another, Brethren, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you.
Be ye kinde one to another, Brethren, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you.
Observe, in the Lords prayer, we pray that the Lord would forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us. Let him that hath common understanding judge, Do we forgive our neighbours by extinguishing sin in the subject? I forgive you; (i.e.) I take away the ill office you did me: Doth he forgive thus? Alas no! forgiveness is without a man. I have an action against you, perhaps an action at Law; I will let fall my suit, my charges I will forgive, this is forgiveness. God justifieth, who shall condemn? Though God has just cause to proceed against me as a Rebel, yet he is content to let fall his action, to fasten it upon the Cross of his Son, there to fix the Chirographum, the hand-writing against us. He will let fall that which was the ground of a suit against us, all that he could say against us.
Observe, in the Lords prayer, we pray that the Lord would forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespasse against us. Let him that hath common understanding judge, Do we forgive our neighbours by extinguishing sinne in the subject? I forgive you; (i.e.) I take away the ill office you did me: Doth he forgive thus? Alas no! forgivenesse is without a man. I have an action against you, perhaps an action at Law; I will let fall my suit, my charges I will forgive, this is forgivenesse. God justifieth, who shall condemn? Though God has just cause to proceed against me as a Rebel, yet he is content to let fall his action, to fasten it upon the Crosse of his Sonne, there to fix the Chirographum, the hand-writing against us. He will let fall that which was the ground of a suit against us, all that he could say against us.