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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.
Not on mans part; as some disease doth not 1need so sharp and quick a medicine as an other, as some mens flesh is harder to heal than others, so some mens hearts have more stubbornness in them than others; some have made themselves children of the Devil by their wicked courses, worse then they were at first; others in comparison are but as the children of Adam, still as they were borne, and therefore the same work may be wrought in them, with much less ado.
Not on mans part; as some disease doth not 1need so sharpe and quick a medicine as an other, as some mens flesh is harder to heale than others, so some mens hearts have more stubbornnes in them than others; some have made themselves children of the Divell by their wicked courses, worse then they were at first; others in comparison are but as the children of Adam, still as they were borne, and therefore the same work may be wrought in them, with much lesse adoe.
- 11 Not necessary on mans part.