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Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere
Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere by the most Reverend James Usher ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1678
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1. Who this carnal man is; what they are which the Apostle speaks of, to be dead in sins: and that walk after the course of the World, led by the Devil, and have their conversation after the flesh, Children of wrath. These are big words and heavy things: Consider first the subject, of whom this is spoken.
Then follows the Predicate, or
Then follows the Praedicate, or
2. What that ill news is, which he delivers of them. We begin with the first.
1. Who they are of whom this is spoken: and that is (you) You hath he quickened who were dead: and (ye) (in the words following) that in times past walked after the course of the world: and in the third verse more particularly: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past. He speaks now in the first person, as before in the second, so that the subject is we all and ye all. Not a man in this Congregation, but is or was as bad as the holy Ghost here makes him. But