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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
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Unto which is joined trembling fear, with considering and coming to a mans self, as we have it in the Parable.
Vnto which is joyned trembling feare, with considering and comming to a mans selfe, aswee have it in the Parable.
And this passive Legal humiliation stands in these 1particulars.
- 1Passive humiliation.
A sensibleness of sin: before a man is as one 1that is in a dead sleep; what is done to him he feels not, nor what is said he hears not, is sensible of nothing: But this is the awakening of a man to be sensible of sin; so as now he is wounded, now he is smitten with it, now he feels it. So the Goaler as the foundation of the prison was shaken, so was his heart also, and had an earth-quake within, as well as one without; and his awaking out of sleep was a resemblance of his awakened heart.
A sensiblenesse of sinne: before a man is as one 1that is in a dead sleep; what is done to him he feeles not, nor what is said he heares not, is sensible of nothing: But this is the awakening of a man to be sensible of sinne; so as now hee is wounded, now he is smitten with it, now he feeles it. So the Goaler as the foundation of the prison was shaken, so was his heart also, and had an earth-quake within, as well as one without; and his awaking out of sleepe was a resemblance of his awakened heart.