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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
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This humiliation makes a man fearful of his estate; whereas before he was bold: and others that 1are not humbled go on boldly and are punished, as it is said of the fool in the Proverbs.
This humiliation makes a man fearefull of his estate; whereas before he was bold: and others that 1are not humbled goe on boldly and are punisht, as it is said of the foole in the Proverbs.
- 12 Fear of his estate.2 Feare of his estate.
It makes a man consider his estate, which he never ⟨p. 79⟩1did before; as the Prodigal came to himself, that is, entered into a serious consideration of his estate; before a man thought himself in a good estate; little imagined he was in the gall of bitterness; but this work shows him his poverty, and that he is altogether naked, and that he hath nothing to sustain him, as the Prodigal saw he had not, no worth at all in him.
It makes a man consider his estate, which he never ⟨p. 79⟩1did before; as the Prodigall came to himselfe, that is, entered into a serious consideration of his estate; before a man thought himselfe in a good estate; little imagined hee was in the gall of bitternesse; but this worke shewes him his poverty, and that he is altogether naked, and that hee hath nothing to sustaine him, as the Prodigall saw he had not, no worth at all in him.