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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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So then having laid laid this point for a foundation, we now will come to the next.
That until we come to Christ, the Law lays hold of us. Till Christ come, we are shut up under the Law, kept under it. And if there were nothing else in the World to make a man weary of his condition, this were enough. Until a man hath given over himself to Christ, and renounced his own righteousness, he is subject to the Law, kept under it, not under grace. It brings a man only to the place, where grace is. Put this therefore close to your consciences, and jumble not these two together. First Nature cometh, and whilst you are under that, you are under the Law. Never think you are under the Covenant of Grace, till you believe (of which belief we shall speak more hereafter.) Whilst you are under the Law, you are held under it and by it made obnoxious to the wrath of God; Whoever is under the Law, is under the curse.
That until we come to Christ, the Law layes hold of us. Till Christ come, we are shut up under the Law, kept under it. And if there were nothing else in the World to make a man weary of his condition, this were enough. Until a man hath given over himself to Christ, and renounced his own righteousness, he is subject to the Law, kept under it, not under grace. It brings a man only to the place, where grace is. Put this therefore close to your consciences, and jumble not these two together. First Nature cometh, and whilst you are under that, you are under the Law. Never think you are under the Covenant of Grace, till you believe (of which belief we shall speak more hereafter.) Whilst you are under the Law, you are held under it and by it made obnoxious to the wrath of God; Whoever is under the Law, is under the curse.
Now that I may unfold it, and show what a fearful thing it is to be under the Law, to be held under it (although many think it no great matter) hearken what the Apostle saith of it: Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the Law to do them,