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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.
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 1also preached) as a patterne for all Ministers to follow. And when hee would draw Adam and Eve in to seeke 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 Messias.
- 1Humiliation required 1 By God the Father.
And secondly, JESUS CHRIST the second 1Person in his first Sermons in Preaching the Gospel, as in Luk. 4. 7. shows his approbation of 2this method in that he makes this his first subject of his first Sermon, us appears by the text he takes to preach the Gospel, but to whom? to those that are first humble and humbled. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to such as are poor and broken in heart.
And secondly, JESUS CHRIST the second 1Person in his first Sermons in Preaching the Gospell, as in