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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 first, this place alone is sufficient ground. 1GOD would not have put in such a condition in vain, if it might have been spared in any, but besides this ground we have the practise of all the master builders, who made it their first work (as here it is the first condition) to humble men, that they might be brought to humble themselves: And to omit all other instances, we ⟨p. 68⟩have all the three Persons seals to this method.
For the first, this place alone is sufficient ground. 1GOD would not have put in such a condition in vaine, if it might have beene spared in any, but besides this ground wee have the practise of all the master builders, who made it their first worke (as here it is the first condition) to humble men, that they might bee brought to humble themselves: And to omit all other instances, wee ⟨p. 68⟩have all the three Persons seales to this method.
- 11 Necessity of humiliation.
This was GOD the Fathers method in the first Sermon that ever was preached (which himself 1also preached) as a pattern for all Ministers to follow. And when he would draw Adam and Eve in to seek the promise of mercy, he first expostulates the matter with them, to humble them for their sin: and then lets fall the promise of the Messiah.
This was GOD the Fathers method in the first Sermon that ever was preached (which himselfe