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The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignityThe golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie
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
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.
SIR,
IT hath been our custom hitherto, who were deputed by the Author to this service, to inscribe or dedicate the several tractates we have put forth, to some or other of his special friends, as proofs of our fidelity, in discharging of the trust reposed in us, and special emblems of the Authors great abilities. For if in ⟨image 4⟩every trivial and small Epistle, a man do exarare animam, imprint upon the paper some pieces of his soul, he doth it much more doubtless in his studied exercises, wherein he cannot but conceive his memory may live, and some part of himself be kept alive, and sweet to all posterity.
IT hath beene our custome hitherto, who were deputed by the Author to this service, to inscribe or dedicate the severall tractates wee have put forth, to some or other of his speciall friends, as proofs of our fidelity, in discharging of the trust reposed in us, and speciall emblemes of the Authours great abilities. For if in ⟨image 4⟩every triviall and small Epistle, a man do exarare animam, imprint upon the paper some peeces of his soule, he doth it much more doubtlesse in his studied exercises, wherein he cannot but conceive his memory may live, and some part of himselfe be kept alive, and sweet to all posterity.
If he could say, non omnis moriar, because 1he was a Poet, and think his Poem perennius aere, a monument that time it self would not be able to devour: how much more may he say it that draws himself unto the life in an immortal Dye, and writes such characters as are not subject to decay and perish? For all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass withereth, and the flower falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever: and this is the word, which by the Gospel is preached unto you,