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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
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.
They differ in their effects; as,
The one driveth a man from GOD, but this 1latter causeth a man to go to GOD and to seek Christ: it works that affection to Christ that the 2Church in the Canticles had to him, who would not give over seeking him, till she had found him whom her soul did love. Though there be twenty obstacles in the way, yet the soul hath no rest; as a stone hath no rest, till it be in its own centre, so nor this soul thus humbled, but in God; and therefore gives not over seeking him, though it hath never so many denials.
The one driveth a man from GOD, but this 1latter causeth a man to goe to GOD and to seeke Christ: it workes that affection to Christ that the 2Church in the Canticles had to him, who would not give over seeking him, till she had found him whom her soule did love. Though there bee twenty obstacles in the way, yet the soule hath no rest; as a stone hath no rest, till it bee in its owne center, so nor this soule thus humbled, but in God; and therfore gives not over seeking him, though it hath never so many denyalls.
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