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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
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The humble man therefore is in all conditions contented, always cheerful and blessing God; if he hath good things, they are more then he is worthy of; if evil, though never so sharp, yet they are less than destruction, and then he deserves, when as an unbroken heart is always turbulent, and thinks in the secret murmurings of his heart, that he is not well dealt with.
The humble man therefore is in all conditions contented, alwayes chearefull and blessing God; if he hath good things, they are more then he is worthy of; if evill, though never so sharpe, yet they are lesse than destruction, and then he deserves, when as an unbroken heart is alwayes turbulent, and thinkes in the secret murmurings of his heart, that he is not well dealt with.
I should come now to the application of this Doctrine; 1but before I must resolve a case and scruple, which doth use to trouble the hearts of many.
- 1Case. Whether such a measure of Legal sorrow be necessaryCase. Whether such a measure of Legall sorrow be necessary
The Case in question is, whether to right and true humiliation, it be necessary that such a solemn humiliation and such a measure of sorrow and violent Legal contrition go before it.
The Case in question is, whether to right and true humiliation, it be necessary that such a solemne humiliation and such a measure of sorrow and violent Legall contrition goe before it.