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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.
Now follows in the next place in the Text; By whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. These are the two privileges that a justified man hath; he hath a gracious access unto God; Suppose he be in a fault, (as who is not?) if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous: These things have I written, (saith the Apostle) that you sin not; but if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, &c.
Now follows in the next place in the Text; By whom we have accesse by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God. These are the two priviledges that a justified man hath; he hath a gracious accesse unto God; Suppose he be in a fault, (as who is not?) if any man sinne, we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous: These things have I written, (saith the Apostle) that you sinne not; but if any man sinne, we have an Advocate with the Father, &c.
This is the state of a justified man; though he do by his •elapses provoke God, yet he is in the state of a subject; though he be a disobedient subject, yet a subject, not a foreigner as before; but now ye that were not a people, are become the people of the Lord. A child of God in the midst of rebellion, is sub misericordia; as soon as he is in the state of grace, he is under Gods protection; he is no stranger; though he hath his blood about his ears, and is in his rags, yet he may come to God; by Jesus Christ he may come boldly to the Throne of grace, that he may find help in time of need: The ⟨p. 457⟩Apostle in Ephes. 2.18. sets down twice the great privileges Christians have; for thorough him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father; its Christ which makes the way: To have a friend at the Court is a great matter, especially when a man hath need of him; Christ is gone before us: and he lives for ever to make intercession for us, and we need no other Mediator; thus he bespeaks his Father: Father, this is one of mine that I shed my blood for, one of those that thou gavest me, I beseech thee have pity upon him, and I beseech thee give him audience,