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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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They differ in their continuance; the former a lone proves but a passion, and it comes but from 1flesh, so as all the fruits of flesh are, it is but as the flower of the grass: of the same fading nature the root is from whence it comes: though it comes like a violent torrent into the heart, and swells above the banks, yet it is but as a land-flood; but this latter is as a constant river that hath a spring, which though it keeps within the banks, and doth not overflow so much as the other, yet it runs constantly, and the further it runs, the greater it grows.2
They differ in their continuance; the former a lone proves but a passion, and it comes but from 1flesh, so as all the fruites of flesh are, it is but as the flower of the grasse: of the same fading nature the roote is from whence it comes: though it comes like a violent torrent into the heart, and swells above the bankes, yet it is but as a land-floud; but this latter is as a constant river that hath a spring, which though it keepes within the bankes, and doth not overflow so much as the other, yet it runnes constantly, and the further it runnes, the greater it growes.2
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- 25 Properties. of this humiliation.
I will give you also some properties of that humiliation ⟨p. 87⟩to which the promise is made here, by which it may be yet further known and differenced.
I will give you also some properties of that humiliation