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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.
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.
Again, God purposely doth, though he be friends with them, take away from them the sense of peace, because he takes delight to find that strength of faith: Faith is manifest that way, faith is most strong when there is least sense. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? the less sense, the faster the hold; and God loves this at life, that when he spurns and frowns, he will not let go, nor be put off; let him kill me, he shall kill me with Christ in my arms, I will not let go my hold; God cannot fail, he hath given me his Word, & therefore I will not let go; such a strong faith had Abraham, contrary to reason; Gods Word is true, he gives me his Word, and I will trust him; So a child of God will not be put off; though God write bitter things against him, he will not forgo him; we have an excellent example in the woman of Canaan; the end of it is, O woman great is thy faith; but how doth the greatness of it appear? Lord, have mercy upon me, my daughter is grievously afflicted, &c. why not rather, Lord, have mercy on my daughter! the reason is because she was afflicted in her daughters affliction; by the way we may hereby understand the meaning of the Commandment, where it is said, he will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate him; but why to the third and fourth generation? because I may see the third and fourth generation, and may see the judgment of God on them, and may remember my sin for which they are plagued; the case is mine, and not theirs only; Lord, have mercy upon me, for my daughter is diseased; I see my own sin