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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.
1 Use is for exhortation to stir up to the duty: 1This exhortation I direct to two sorts of men; first to those who are already truly humbled, and secondly to strangers to it.
1 Vse is for exhortation to stirre up to the dutie: 1This exhortation I direct to two sorts of men; first to those who are already truly humbled, and secondly to strangers to it.
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First you that are already humbled and have obtained 1the assurance of the forgiveness of your sins, you must be humbled more, for if the Lord suspend his promise at this, then the duty is to be done daily: When God requires a duty of Sanctification (and his promises are made only to such) there can be none excuse, there may be a let in preparative humiliation; a man may be swallowed of two 2much sorrow: but not in this which is a duty of sanctification: and know this, that all degrees of grace arise from the degrees of this true Humiliation: which I make good to you thus; Faith and Love are the great radical graces, all else are but branches springing out of them. Now they are strengthened by this humiliation, and graces the more they grow, there is an addition still made to them; as there is an addition made to our humiliation.
First you that are already humbled and have obtained 1the assurance of the forgivenesse of your sins, you must be humbled more, for if the Lord suspend his promise at this, then the duty is to be done daily: When God requires a dutie of Sanctification (and his promises are made onely to such) there can bee none excuse, there may bee a let in preparative humiliation; a man may bee swallowed of two