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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.
I answer, yes, for to that end GOD leads through crosses, and suffers thee to fall into sins, 1that thou mayest see the vanity of the creature and the sinfulness of thy nature, that when thou comest to heaven thou mayest say by thine own experience, it was not by my own righteousness that I ⟨p. 99⟩came hither: And therefore though it be good to get it, yet let GOD go his own way and use his own manner of working, whether by Legal terror or otherwise, what he sees good for thee he will do to humble thee, but do thou use means to understand the Law, thy own heart and actions, and as thou art fallen into new sins, labour to see what a case thou shouldest be in, if Christ had not delivered thee: But let not thy assurance be weakened, for you must know there are but two main ends of humiliation, which if they be attained in thee, thou needest not call in question thy estate. Now first 2it serves to make thee willing to match with Christ: We are Christs spokes-men, and woo you every Sabbath day, but we find all the world like them 3who think themselves beautiful and rich and that they have matches enow, who though they are contented to have Christ for their husband in Heaven, yet not on the earth with all those crosses they must take him with.