A64642:677
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.
no saith he, now I abhor my self in dust and ashes. The nearer God draws unto us, and the more merciful he is unto us, by that light we the more discern our own abominations. That which would make another man proud, brings Job to the knowledge of his vileness; Therefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes.
no saith he, now I abhorre my self in dust and ashes. The nearer God draws unto us, and the more merciful he is unto us, by that light we the more discern our own abominations. That which would make another man proud, brings Job to the knowledge of his vilenesse; Therefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes.
3. Now another thing is, Who is this peace-maker? This I shall but touch: We have peace with God: But how? through our Lord Jesus Christ; he is our peace-maker, and interposeth between his Fathers wrath and us, Ephes. 2.14. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down that partition wall between us; we have not only peace with God through Christ, but Christ is the very peace; not only the peace-maker, but the peace. There was a middle wall of partition between the Jews and the Gentiles, and between God and us; Christ breaks it down; sin shall no longer be a wall of partition. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances, for to make himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Cross. There was hatred between God and us. Christ hath crucified that hatred with the nails wherewith he was fastened to the Cross; he hath killed it by his crucifixion, and now enmity being slain, peace must needs be alive; there is peace and reconciliation made. You are come (saith the Apostle) to the blood of sprinkling; whereas the blood of Abel cried for vengeance against Cain the murderer: ⟨p. 455⟩This blood cries for peace, it out-cries all our sins; sin hath a voice; its said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah went up into the ears of the Lord; Every sin thou committest hath a voice to cry, but the blood of Christ hath a shriller voice, and out-cries the cry of thy sins; it is so preeminent, it speaks for peace, and doth out cry the voice of our sins; the high Priest was a a type of Christ,