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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.
Now concerning peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the first of these, I considered three parts in it.
1. What that peace was which the justified man enjoyeth. 2. The parties between whom this peace was made. 3. Who was the peace maker.
Concerning the peace I declared unto you what it was, that it was an unconceivable thing, The peace of God that passeth all understanding; a thing which our shallow understandings cannot reach unto, we cannot apprehend the excellency of this grace: Consider its excellency by the contrary, there is no misery in the world like that as when a man stands at enmity with God: Do we provoke the Lord? are we stronger than he? If a man sin against a man, saith Eli, the Judge shall judge him; another man may take up the quarrel, but if a man sin against God, if the controversy be between God and us, who shall intercede for us? were it not for this our peace-maker Christ Jesus, we should be in a woeful condition, unless he put to his hand, and took up the matter.
Concerning the peace I declared unto you what it was, that it was an unconceivable thing, The peace of God that passeth all understanding; a thing which our shallow understandings cannot reach unto, we cannot apprehend the excellency of this grace: Consider its excellency by the contrary, there is no misery in the world like that as when a man stands at enmity with God: Do we provoke the Lord? are we stronger than he? If a man sinne against a man, saith Eli, the Judge shall judge him; another man may take up the quarrel, but if a man sinne against God, if the controversie be between God and us, who shall intercede for us? were it not for this our peace-maker Christ Jesus, we should be in a woful condition, unlesse he put to his hand, and took up the matter.