Drawing on material from a range of genres, with extensive
reference to manuscript collections, Richard Snoddy offers a
detailed study of James Usshers applied soteriology. After locating
Ussher in the ecclesiastical context of seventeenth-century Ireland
and England, Snoddy examines his teaching on the doctrines of
atonement, justification, sanctification, and assurance. He
considers their interconnection in Usshers thought, particularly
the manner in which a general atonement functions as the ground of
justification and the extent to which it functions as the ground of
assurance. The book documents Usshers change of mind on a number of
important issues, especially how, from holding to a limited
atonement and an assurance that is of the essence of faith, he
moved to belief in a general atonement and an assurance obtained
through experimental piety. Within the framework of one widely
accepted scholarly paradigm he appears to move from one logically
inconsistent position to another, but his thought contains an inner
logic that questions the explanatory power of that paradigm. This
insightful study sheds new light on the diversity of
seventeenth-century Reformed theology in the British Isles.
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