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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 4THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 4
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.
For the handling of the first, I raise this Doctrine 1out of the words: That without Humiliation no man shall obtain mercy: We see that God suspendeth mercy upon it here, as without which no mercy can be expected; which therefore must needs be thought a matter of great consequence, and the more largely to be insisted upon.
For the handling of the first, I raise this Doctrine 1out of the words: That without Humiliation no man shall obtaine mercy: Wee see that God suspendeth mercy upon it here, as without which no mercy can bee expected; which therefore must needs bee thought a matter of great consequence, and the more largely to be insisted upon.
- 1Doct. 4. Without humiliation no mercy.Doct. 4. Without hu miliation no mercy.
I express the doctrine in a more large and general word humiliation, which contains in it, as well 1humiliation passive, or being humbled, as humiliation active (as for more clear distinction sake I call them) whereby we humble our selves: which is the main thing intended in the Text, explicitly and directly, which also in the prosecution of this point I mainly intend; yet I shut up both together, in this negative part of this discourse: because they are, though in themselves distinct, yet always conjoined in their working, and the latter doth always presuppose the former, and doth necessarily imply it here: for no man did ever come to humble himself, that was not first humbled. This negative part of excluding men from mercy without both these, being also alike common to both, it being a like true, that no man did ever attain mercy, that was not first humbled, and that did not humble himself: So as in this negative part they agree and concur.