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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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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 2will do all this cheerfully, like a broken Horse that turns at every check of the bridle, when another casts his Rider: Doest thou find that thou tremblest at the word, and fearest sin, and darest not venture in it, and so for duties, thou darest not neglect them: and this thou hast experience of in the whole course of thy life? then surely this work of humiliation hath been in thy heart: Though thou seest not the fire, yet if thou findst the heat, it hath been there: for these are the effects of it, and as I speak this for the comfort of those that have not felt such violent sorrows, so let me on the contrary say to others, who (it may be) have had such fits of sorrow, yet if thou find an unwillingness to submit thus to Christ, findest thy neck stiff to the Lords yoke, and such an unbrokenness in thee, that thou canst not live without satisfying this or ⟨p. 101⟩that lust, but canst sin and bear it out well enough, let thy sorrow have been never so great, and now they are past and gone, and were not right; let men therefore examine themselves by the effects, for men are deceived on both sides: and then,
The second end which humiliation serves to is for Sanctification, as the other helpt him in his Justification, 1that every unruly lust may bee broken and mortified in thee; that thou mightest feare to offend and bee plyable to the Lord in every thing; whereas another that is unbroken quarrells with every thing, thinkes his worke too much, and his wages too little, and knowes not why he should goe a contrary way to the world, but an humbled man 2will doe all this chearefully, like a broken Horse that turnes at every check of the bridle, when another casts his Rider: Doest thou finde that thou tremblest at the word, and fearest sinne, and darest not venture in it, and so for duties, thou darest not neglect them: and this thou hast experience of in the whole course of thy life? then surely this worke of humiliation hath beene in thy heart: Though thou seest not the fire, yet if thou findst the heate, it hath beene there: for these are the effects of it, and as I speake this for the comfort of those that have not felt such violent sorrows, so let mee on the contrary say to others, who (it may bee) have had such fits of sorrow, yet if thou find an unwillingnes to submit thus to Christ, findest thy necke stiffe to the Lords yoke, and such an unbrokennesse in thee, that thou canst not live without satisfying this or