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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.
And mark our Saviour, The people thronged about him, and he saith, Who is it that toucheth me? A wonder that he when they crowded him, should ask such a question; but Christ knew that some body touched him beside the touch of the multitude; its said in the Text, The poor woman came trembling and told him all the truth: And he said Be of good comfort, though thou hast a paralytic, and palsy sick-hand, yet the touch is enough; the least faith brings as much life as the greatest.
And mark our Saviour, The people throng'd about him, and he saith, Who is it that toucheth me? A wonder that he when they crowded him, should ask such a question; but Christ knew that some body touched him beside the touch of the multitude; its said in the Text, The poor woman came trembling and told him all the truth: And he said Be of good comfort, though thou hast a paralytick, and palsie sick-hand, yet the touch is enough; the least faith brings as much life as the greatest.
Object. But then what need a man look for a great faith?
Sol. Yes by all means; for though thou hast much comfort by a little weak faith, yet the more faith, the more comfort; and therefore 'tis to very much purpose to labour after a strong faith. Abraham (it is said) staggered, not through unbelief; if thou hast a strong faith, thou wilt have a strong consolation: Thou mayst by thy weak faith be healed of thy disease, yet by the weakness of thy faith mayst want much of the strength of thy comfort; therefore thou must go from faith to faith; but know this, that a new-born child, [Greek or Hebrew], is not yet so strong as a man, yet he is as much alive as the strongest and tallest man; so that again thus, thou art yet but a new-born babe, not so strong or so lively as one more grown, but yet thou hast all the lineaments of the new creature in thee, though thou art not so strong and lively as another may be.