A09970:165
The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignityThe golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie
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.
The last Reason hath relation to the last thing 1here promised, of taking away the Judgements and healing the Land. God should not have the praise of his Judgements and of his Mercy in taking them ⟨p. 75⟩away, unless men were humbled; for if when God did afflict men, he should restore them again without this humiliation, men would think that God wronged them before, and now did but right them, but when God hath humbled them so far, that they acknowledge his Justice, in afflicting them, and their own desert to be utterly destroyed, and confess that it is his mere Mercy they were not consumed, and humble themselves under his mighty hand, and now if the Judgement be taken off, and his wrath blown over, then they give him the praise of his Mercy and Judgements.
The last Reason hath relation to the last thing 1here promised, of taking away the Iudgements and healing the Land. God should not have the praise of his Iudgements and of his Mercy in taking them ⟨p. 75⟩away, unlesse men were humbled; for if when God did afflict men, he should restore them againe without this humiliation, men would thinke that God wronged them before, and now did but right them, but when God hath humbled them so farre, that they acknowledge his Iustice, in afflicting them, and their owne desert to be utterly destroyed, and confesse that it is his mere Mercy they were not consumed, and humble themselves under his mighty hand, and now if the Iudgement be taken off, and his wrath blowne over, then they give him the praise of his Mercy and Iudgements.
- 1Reas. 5. God should not have the praise of his mercy.