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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
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.
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, 1 Pet. 1. 24, 25.
If he could say, non omnis moriar, because 1he was a Poet, and think his Poem perennius aere, a monument that time it selfe would not be able to divoure: how much more may he say it that drawes himselfe unto the life in an immortall Dye, and writes such characters as are not subject to decay and perish? For all flesh is grasse, and all the glory of man as the flower of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever: and this is the word, which by the Gospell is preached unto you, 1 Pet. 1. 24, 25.
- 1Horat.
Seeing therefore it hath pleased God to preserve these pieces yet alive, and after long deferring and desiring, to produce and bring them forth to public view; we have thought good, in a prime and ⟨image 4⟩special manner to entitle you unto them, and to send them out unto the world under the covert and shadow of your name.