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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.
Out of all these we gather those two main parts 1of Humiliation mentioned; humiliation passive, and active. The first whereof makes way for the ⟨p. 78⟩second, unto which no promise is made, and which may be found in an unregenerate man; the second, which is the fruit of Sanctification, which is meant here, and unto which the promise is made: These go both together in the godly; and he that hath the second, never wants the first in some measure more or less, though many have the first, that have not the second.
Out of all these we gather those two maine parts 1of Humiliation mentioned; humiliation passive, and active. The first whereof makes way for the ⟨p. 78⟩second, unto which no promise is made, and which may be found in an unregenerate man; the second, which is the fruit of Sanctification, which is meant here, and unto which the promise is made: These goe both together in the godly; and hee that hath the second, never wants the first in some measure more or lesse, though many have the first, that have not the second.
- 1Humiliation of two parts.
Now the first is nothing else but a sense of sin, and Gods wrath for it; expressed to us in those former examples, by being pricked in the heart, it being a wounding of the heart and spirit.
Now the first is nothing else but a sence of sin, and Gods wrath for it; expressed to us in those former examples, by being prickt in the heart, it being a wounding of the heart and spirit.