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The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignity by her marriage. And the Churches duty in her carriage. In three treatises. The former delivered in sundry sermons in Cambridge, for the weekly fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincolns Inn. By the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty, Mr. of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometime preacher at Lincolns Inn.The golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie by her marriage. And the Churches dutie in her carriage. In three treatises. The former delivered in sundry sermons in Cambridge, for the weekely fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincolnes Inne. By the late learned and reverend divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to His Maiesty, Mr. of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and somtime preacher at Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by R. Badger for N. Bourne, 1638
THE GOLDEN SCEPTRE. › Doctrine 3THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 3
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.
The next may be this third Doctrine:
The Lords Name is called upon his people, that is, 1they are called by his Name: for the opening of this point, we must know first, that it is the Lord that putteth his name upon them; for who durst take this honour, but those upon whom the Lord himself pleaseth to bestow it? this is no small thing; where God puts his name, it brings something with it.
The Lords Name is called upon his people, that is, 1they are called by his Name: for the opening of this point, we must know first, that it is the Lord that putteth his name upon them; for who durst take this honour, but those upon whom the Lord himselfe pleaseth to bestow it? this is no small thing; where God puts his name, it brings something with it.
- 1Doct. 3. The Lords Name called upon his People.
So as secondly, it is not an empty title, Titulus sine re, but there is a reality in it; for where God 1gives his Name to any man or people, there he bestows himself, and all he hath is theirs, because they are Gods, 1 Cor. 3. ult. As an husband when 2he bestows his name upon his wife, then he also giveth himself to her. Now in the Scripture the Lords name and the Lord himself are put one for another, so that it is no small privilege to have the Lords Name called upon us.