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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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2 Property is, it makes a man to cleave fast to 1Christ, and so draw nigh to him in all the duties of obedience, to obey him constantly, generally and throughly. Men may have light wounds made in their hearts which do not drive them to the Physician, which awakeneth men a little, but they fall asleep again: but when God humbleth so as to save, he so fastens the apprehension of his misery upon him, as to bring him home to Christ: he sets on the avenger of blood to pursue him to the utmost, and not for a mile or two, but to follow him till he be driven into the City of refuge: There is an humiliation, which hath not this effect and consequent of it (and therefore I mention it as a property of the true) and this because of a defect that is in it, in which respect though it come near the true, yet differs from it: which is in the event seen ⟨p. 89⟩in this, that the true causeth to come to Christ, and to cleave to him without separation.
2 Property is, it makes a man to cleave fast to 1Christ, and so draw nigh to him in all the duties of obedience, to obey him constantly, generally and throughly. Men may have light wounds made in their hearts which do not drive them to the Physitian, which awakeneth men a little, but they fall asleepe againe: but when God humbleth so as to save, he so fastens the apprehension of his misery upon him, as to bring him home to Christ: he sets on the avenger of bloud to pursue him to the utmost, and not for a mile or two, but to follow him till he be driven into the Citty of refuge: There is an humiliation, which hath not this effect and consequent of it (and therefore I mention it as a property of the true) and this because of a defect that is in it, in which respect though it come neare the true, yet differs from it: which is in the event seene ⟨p. 89⟩in this, that the true causeth to come to Christ, and to cleave to him without separation.
- 12 To cleave fast to Christ.