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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
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.
In the first are the danger and deformity of sin, driving the spouse to sad and low expressions of her self, as those virgins were commanded, Deut. 21. 11, 12, 13. Even to shave her head, and pare her nails, and bewail her father and her mother, that is, her natural and inbred evils and corruptions.
In the first are the danger and deformity of sin, driving the spouse to sad and low expressions of her selfe, as those virgins were commanded, Deut. 21. 11, 12, 13. Even to shave her head, and pare her nailes, and bewaile her father and her mother, that is, her naturall and inbred evils and corruptions.
In the second, is the glorious freeness of the grace of Christ, receiving this dejected and humbled captive unto favour, and, with that great King, Hest. 5. 2. reaching forth the Golden Sceptre of his love and mercy to her, not only to the pardon and forgiveness of all her sin, but entitling also of her unto all things, for all things are hers, whether ⟨image 5⟩Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are hers, because she is Christs, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22.
In the second, is the glorious freenesse of the grace of Christ, receiving this dejected and humbled captive unto favour, and, with that great King, Hest. 5. 2. reaching forth the Golden Scepter of his love and mercy to her, not onely to the pardon and forgivenesse of all her sin, but intitling also of her unto all things, for all things are hers, whether