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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.
2. If it be true joy, there goeth faith before it; for being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: So that the exercising of the acts of faith, is a spiritual means to raise comforts in our souls; John 6. I had need to speak of this, for there is want of the exercises of faith; is it enough think you to have faith once exercised? He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh ⟨p. 462⟩my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him: It is not enough to eat once a year. A man will not be in good liking that eats but once a year, but a man must eat once a day at least. A Christian should feed on Christ every day, make him his ordinary food, renewing every day the acts of his faith, receive Christ crucified by faith every day. If a Christian would consider that God offers Christ unto him every day, and thou renewest thy faith, and claspest him every day, it would be a special way whereby joy should be raised in the soul. Its said in Rom. 15.13. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God; Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. Thus when thou hast exercised the acts of faith in believing, and then upon that rejoicest, then its seasonable and true joy, and not the counterfeit joy of the wicked; when it arises and springs from believing, when that procureth it, it likewise distinguishes it from all false joys. The Apostle tells us, Phil. 1.24. Having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith. It is called the joy of faith, because it springs from that principle of rejoicing, from the mother grace, that your rejoicing may be the more abundant.
2. If it be true joy, there goeth faith before it; for being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: So that the exercising of the acts of faith, is a spiritual means to raise comforts in our souls; John 6. I had need to speak of this, for there is want of the exercises of faith; is it enough think you to have faith once exercised? He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh