A64642:634
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.
Sol. I answer, When faith justifieth, there is one thing said of another; the subject and the predicate; faith justifies. Justification is attributed unto faith; Look on the word (only) whether it doth determine the subject or the predicate; doth faith which is alone severed from good works, justify? so the proposition is false. First, that faith which is alone, separated from love and the fruits of good works, doth not justify; but let the word (alone) be put to the predicate; faith justifieth alone; (i. e.) faith is the only virtue in the soul whereby a man is justified, that is true: As if a man should say, the eye alone seeth, 'tis true; if we put it ⟨p. 437⟩thus, the eye severed from the members of the body, seeth its self. If the eye were taken out of the head, it would neither see alone, nor at all; but the meaning is this, the living eye is the organ whereby a man discerns a visible object; so faith, though joined with other graces, yet takes not other with it for helps of justification.
Sol. I answer, When faith justifieth, there is one thing said of another; the subject and the predicate; faith justifies. Justification is attributed unto faith; Look on the word (only) whether it doth determine the subject or the predicate; doth faith which is alone severed from good works, justifie? so the proposition is false. First, that faith which is alone, separated from love and the fruits of good works, doth not justifie; but let the word (alone) be put to the predicate; faith justifieth alone; (i. e.) faith is the only vertue in the soul whereby a man is justified, that is true: As if a man should say, the eye alone seeth, 'tis true; if we put it ⟨p. 437⟩thus, the eye severed from the members of the body, seeth its self. If the eye were taken out of the head, it would neither see alone, nor at all; but the meaning is this, the living eye is the organ whereby a man discerns a visible object; so faith, though joyn'd with other graces, yet takes not other with it for helps of justification.