A64642:642
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.
1. For the first; they are those things by which faith is wrought, though they are not so evident, yet they are most sure; when I consider God calls me in ⟨p. 439⟩my blood, having nothing in me, and will be friends with me, bids me take his Son, and I do not, bids me take his Kingdom and glory with him, and I refuse it, though this be a matter not so evident, yet it is most sure.
1. For the first; they are those things by which faith is wrought, though they are not so evident, yet they are most sure; when I consider God calls me in ⟨p. 439⟩my blood, having nothing in me, and will be friends with me, bids me take his Sonne, and I do not, bids me take his Kingdome and glory with him, and I refuse it, though this be a matter not so evident, yet it is most sure.
2. Then there are other arguments which come from the fruits of faith (à posteriori) they are more evident, but not so sure. And thus have I declared unto you the first point of justification by faith, it is so sweet a string that I cannot tell how to leave it.
Now let us come from the Mother to the Daughters; the eldest Daughter is peace with God, then this is the first birth; And we are at peace, &c.