A64642:91
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.
We showed farther how it was Satan's policy to make men seem wiser then God, that when God proposes a certain time, and limits us a day wherein he will be found, we will not have his, but our own. True, say we, God calls on us, and it's fit and convenient to hearken unto him; but yet Isle stay for a more seasonable opportunity. There is nothing provokes God so much against us, as when we will thus scorn that acceptable time he hath proposed: Nor can there be a greater hinderance to repentance, then to stop our ears at his counsels, and to suffer him to call and cry unto us so long, and yet to abuse his patience by a foolish neglect. It accuses us of rebellion and high presumption, on such infirm grounds to put from us the day of salvation. Folly it is in the ⟨p. 19⟩highest degree to trust on the future, when as in our own hands we have neither space nor grace for such a business. God is the Lord and owner of them both, and will not part with his Prerogative. Go to, you that say to day or to morrow we will return unto the Lord. You add to presumption both folly and rebellion. Jezebel had space to repent, yet she repented not, for she had not the grace; that without this will not benefit.
We shew'd farther how it was Satans policie to make men seem wiser then God, that when God proposes a certain time, and limits us a day wherin he will be found, we will not have his, but our own. True, say we, God calls on us, and it's fit and convenient to hearken unto him; but yet Ile stay for a more seasonable opportunity. There is nothing provokes God so much against us, as when we will thus scorn that acceptable time he hath proposed: Nor can there be a greater hinderance to repentance, then to stop our eares at his counsels, and to suffer him to call and cry unto us so long, and yet to abuse his patience by a foolish neglect. It accuses us of rebellion and high presumption, on such infirm grounds to put from us the day of salvation. Folly it is in the ⟨p. 19⟩highest degree to trust on the future, when as in our own hands we have neither space nor grace for such a businesse. God is the Lord and owner of them both, and will not part with his Prerogative. Go to, you that say to day or to morrow we will return unto the Lord. You adde to presumption both folly and rebellion. Jezabel had space to repent, yet she repented not, for she had not the grace; that without this will not benefit.