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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.
Of the order of it, as it is here placed the first 1of all the rest.
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For the first, it is true indeed, that the Lord might 1bring men home to him without this humiliation. He could do as he did at the first creation, say no more, but let there be light, and there would be light, and that without any of this thunder, he might say, Let there be grace, and there would be grace; he could come in the still voice without renting the Rocks, and say no more but, Open ye everlasting doors, lift up your heads ye gates, and they would be open; but as though he might have brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt into the Land of Canaan, without leading them through the Wilderness, yet his good pleasure was thereby rather to humble them and prove them; so it is here.
For the first, it is true indeed, that the Lord might 1bring men home to him without this humiliation. Hee could doe as he did at the first creation, say no more, but let there be light, and there would be light, and that without any of this thunder, he might say, Let there be grace, and there would be grace; hee could come in the still voyce without renting the Rockes, and say no more but, Open yee everlasting doores, lift up your heads yee gates, and they would be open; but as though hee might have brought the Children of Israel out of Aegypt into the Land of Canaan, without leading them through the Wildernesse, yet his good pleasure was thereby rather to humble them and prove them; so it is here.
- 1Reas. 1. From the necessity of it.