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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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And first, they differ in the matter they are conversant about; in that first, a man is humbled properly, but for the punishment: a man indeed is humbled for sin, yet principally as it hath relation to punishment; it is guilt works on him; he is not humbled for sin, as it is contrary to God, and his holiness, but as contrary to himself and his own good: and thus we are not humbled, till we come to love God, and to have a light discovering the holiness and purity of his nature, which one that is savingly humbled hath wrought in him.
And first, they differ in the matter they are conversant about; in that first, a man is humbled properly, but for the punishment: a man indeed is humbled for sinne, yet principally as it hath relation to punishment; it is guilt works on him; he is not humbled for sin, as it is contrary to God, and his holinesse, but as contrary to himself and his own good: and thus we are not humbled, till we come to love God, and to have a light discovering the holines and purity of his nature, which one that is savingly humbled hath wrought in him.
They differ in their grounds and principles whence they arise.1
- 12 In the ground.
The first ariseth but from self-love, and is but a work of nature; though thus far a work of God to stir up self-love, by the sense of misery and to awaken it; but so as any unreasonable creature if in danger, useth to be sensible of it: and what wonder then is it for a man, when he begins to have some sense of hell and death, let into his conscience, to be wounded and apprehensive of it! but the other ariseth from the love of God kindled in the heart by hope of grace and mercy.