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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.
2. So we have peace, but with whom is it? it is between God and us. God and a justified man is at peace through Jesus Christ; at the very same instant that a man is justified, he is at peace with God. This peace as I declared unto you, is a gift of an high nature, ⟨p. 447⟩which belongs not to every man, but to the justified man only; he who is justified by faith, he only hath peace. In the Eph•sians and Isaiah there are general proclamations of peace: Peace be unto them that are near, and unto them that are afar off: and Isa. 5.7. The word the Apostle useth in the Ephesians, hath allusion to this in Isaiah, ver. 19. I create the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to them that are afar off, and to them that are nigh, saith the Lord, and I will heal them; but the wicked are like a troubled Sea, that cannot rest. There is no peace (saith my God) to the wicked. Though the proclamation be never so general to Jews and Gentiles, yet it belongs only to those who have peaceable minds towards God, those who will not stand on terms of rebellion against him; what madness is it to think that if I stand in point of rebellion against God, I should have peace with him? But I must cast down my treasons, and I must come with a subjects mind, then there will be peace, otherwise no peace: When Jehu came to revenge the quarrel of God, Joram asked him, Is it peace Jehu? he answers, What peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her witch-crafts are so many! 2 Kings 9. As long as thou continuest in a course of rebellion, what hast thou to do to talk of peace? why thinkest thou on peace, when thou art the chief rebel? as long as wickedness continues in thy heart, thou hast no peace of God by Jesus Christ.
2. So we have peace, but with whom is it? it is between God and us. God and a justified man is at peace through Jesus Christ; at the very same instant that a man is justified, he is at peace with God. This peace as I declared unto you, is a gift of an high nature, ⟨p. 447⟩which belongs not to every man, but to the justified man only; he who is justified by faith, he only hath peace. In the Ephsians and Isaiah there are general proclamations of peace: Peace be unto them that are near, and unto them that are afarre off: and