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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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A third consideration is, that it is not for want of this greatness of humiliation, that divers have 1not so violent a sorrow, but from some circumstance in the work it self; as,
A third consideration is, that it is not for want of this greatnesse of humiliation, that divers have 1not so violent a sorrow, but from some circumstance in the worke it selfe; as,
- 13 Greatness of sorrow.3 Greatnesse of sorrow.
First, because the light of comfort comes in sooner to some than to others; they have the salve presently 1after the wound is given: God having broken the heart bindeth it up presently again, a man may have as deep a wound which a mitigated medicine coming near to the bottom of the disease and soon applied may sooner heal than another less deep, to which the remedy is not applied a 2long time after, which therefore asks longer: So also it is in joy, suddenness increaseth it for a fit; for example, put case a man is condemned for high treason, and brought to the block, and verily expects death, and his pardon on the sudden comes, there is such a great sensible change wrought in him ⟨p. 97⟩(and our natures are sensible of great changes) and therefore how excessively doth he rejoice! but take one who is guilty of the same fault, who knows that if he have not his pardon, he should lose his life, but hath his pardon presently after the sentence passed, he will prize his pardon as much as the other, though happily he is not so turbulently affected as the other.