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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
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.
That which Absalom counterfeited (as knowing it to be a true strain of a loving and humbled child to a Father) when he had his life given him, though banished from the Court, Let me see my Fathers face, though he kill me, it is an humbled soul in truth towards God: others as God says in Hosea, Seek mercy, but they turned not to me: they sought not me.
That which Absalom counterfeited (as knowing it to be a true straine of a loving and humbled child to a Father) when he had his life given him, though banished from the Court, Let mee see my Fathers face, though hee kill mee, it is an humbled soule in truth towards God: others as God sayes in Hosea, Seeke mercy, but they turned not to mee: they sought not me.
True humiliation causeth a man to turn from his evil ways: the other makes a man but give them 1over for a time, whilst he is sick of them; and then returns again, as a Dog to his vomit, 2 Chron. 33. 23. It is said Amon humbled not himself, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but transgressed more and more: which implies, that when a man is humbled as he should, he transgresseth no more as he had done; and so Manasseh did so humble himself, as he transgressed no more. It will make him become stronger against that sin he hath transgressed 2in: as a bone that hath been broken is stronger when it is right set again; he especially humbleth himself for and turns from his beloved sin, and with that from all the rest.
True humiliation causeth a man to turne from his evill wayes: the other makes a man but give them 1over for a time, whilst he is sicke of them; and then returnes againe, as a Dog to his vomit,