A64642:679
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.
When wrath is come out from the Almighty, and his Army is sent out for to destroy the Rebels, now our High Priest stands between the living and the dead, and offers up himself an oblation to Almighty God to make peace: Look to the case of Balaam; when the people had committed fornication, Phinehas executed judgment; wherefore the Lord saith, Numb. 25.12. Phinehas hath turned away my wrath from the people ▪ and if that one act of Phinehas his zeal for the Lord in killing the Fornicators before the Congregation, if this, I say, appeased Gods wrath for the whole Congregation; how much more doth our Phinehas who hath fulfilled all righteousness, ⟨p. 456⟩whom the zeal of Gods house had eaten up? he is nothing but zeal it self, and all that he doth unto his father, is for our good. How much more shall Christ pacify Gods wrath, who hath received the gash of Gods Sword upon his own body, and would not have himself spared that he might do it? As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whales belly, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth. There is a mighty storm, and Jonah is cast out into the Sea, presently the storm ceaseth; so Christ having suffered for us, there is peace, the storm is over.
When wrath is come out from the Almighty, and his Army is sent out for to destroy the Rebels, now our High Priest stands between the living and the dead, and offers up himself an oblation to Almighty God to make peace: Look to the case of Balaam; when the people had committed fornication, Phineas executed judgment; wherefore the Lord saith, Numb. 25.12. Phineas hath turned away my wrath from the people ▪ and if that one act of Phineas his zeal for the Lord in killing the Fornicators before the Congregation, if this, I say, appeased Gods wrath for the whole Congregation; how much more doth our Phineas who hath fulfilled all righteousnesse, ⟨p. 456⟩whom the zeal of Gods house had eaten up? he is nothing but zeal it self, and all that he doth unto his father, is for our good. How much more shall Christ pacifie Gods wrath, who hath received the gash of Gods Sword upon his own body, and would not have himself spared that he might do it? As Jonah was three dayes and three nights in the whales belly, so shall the Sonne of man be in the heart of the earth. There is a mighty storme, and Jonah is cast out into the Sea, presently the storme ceaseth; so Christ having suffered for us, there is peace, the storme is over.