A64642:672
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.
This may come by reason of the great conflict before in the conscience; God raiseth a great storm, and when he intends to bring a man to do some great work, or to a great deal of joy, he first humbleth him; the Prince of our salvation was consecrated by afflictions, and we must be conformable unto Christ our Head; when the storms are past, the Sea will continue raging for awhile, and when you have turned the wheel round, if you take away your hand, it will go round it self for a time; So when you are justified by faith, the storm is over, yet the roaring of the waves will continue; it will be so with the children of God; though there be a calm, yet there will be some remainders of a storm.
This may come by reason of the great conflict before in the conscience; God raiseth a great storme, and when he intends to bring a man to do some great work, or to a great deal of joy, he first humbleth him; the Prince of our salvation was consecrated by afflictions, and we must be conformable unto Christ our Head; when the stormes are past, the Sea will continue raging for awhile, and when you have turn'd the wheel round, if you take away your hand, it will go round it self for a time; So when you are justified by faith, the storme is over, yet the roaring of the waves will continue; it will be so with the children of God; though there be a calme, yet there will be some remainders of a storm.
Again, they are in travail, and that is a painful thing; My little children with whom I travail; they have the pangs of the new birth, and it is a good while ⟨p. 451⟩before they can find that quietness their heart doth long for.
Again, they are in travaile, and that is a painful thing; My little children with whom I travail; they have the pangs of the new birth, and it is a good while ⟨p. 451⟩before they can finde that quietnesse their heart doth long for.