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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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Now humiliation comes and makes men willing, when a man comes to see and say, I have no such thing in me as I imagined, no riches, &c. but I am in debt, and shall be arrested and laid in prison, and my life must go for it, unless Christ will marry me; in that a man sees he shall be kept from all arrests by him, this makes a man willing to match with Christ, yea glad, though he have many crosses follow in this life upon the marriage. Now therefore if thou findest this wrought that thou canst sincerely say, I am willing to take Christ, and to be subject to him in all things, to follow him in all ⟨p. 100⟩conditions, to give a full consent to take him, as I find that he in the word hath a full consent to take me; then certainly thou art humbled, else not; if thou hadst taken him only in a fit, and not out of Judgement, thou wouldest have repented thee ere now.
Now humiliation comes and makes men willing, when a man comes to see and say, I have no such thing in mee as I imagined, no riches, &c. but I am in debt, and shall be arrested and laid in prison, and my life must goe for it, unlesse Christ will marry mee; in that a man sees hee shall be kept from all arrests by him, this makes a man willing to match with Christ, yea glad, though he have many crosses follow in this life upon the marriage. Now therefore if thou findest this wrought that thou canst sincerely say, I am willing to take Christ, and to bee subject to him in all things, to follow him in all ⟨p. 100⟩conditions, to give a full consent to take him, as I finde that hee in the word hath a full consent to take mee; then certainely thou art humbled, else not; if thou hadst taken him onely in a fit, and not out of Judgement, thou wouldest have repented thee ere now.
The second end which humiliation serves to is for Sanctification, as the other helped him in his Justification, 1that every unruly lust may be broken and mortified in thee; that thou mightest fear to offend and be pliable to the Lord in every thing; whereas another that is unbroken quarrels with every thing, thinks his work too much, and his wages too little, and knows not why he should go a contrary way to the world, but an humbled man