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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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They do not know their own misery and vanity, and though we have preached to men again and again their misery; yet they are not stirred: but when death comes, then they are humbled, and why, but because then they see what God is, and what themselves are; death shows them the vanity of the Creature: so that the way to be humbled, is to know how unable a man is to be happy within his own compass. And to this end consider:
They doe not know their owne misery and vanity, and though wee have preached to men againe and againe their misery; yet they are not stirred: but when death comes, then they are humbled, and why, but because then they see what God is, and what themselves are; death shewes them the vanity of the Creature: so that the way to bee humbled, is to know how unable a man is to bee happy within his owne compasse. And to this end consider:
First, the greatness of God and his power, and the terrors of the Almighty, that he is that God in 1whose hands is thy life and ways, and all: and consider, that unless thou seriously lay thy sins to heart; this God is thy enemy, and him with whom for ever thou hast to do.
First, the greatnesse of God and his power, and the terrours of the Almighty, that he is that God in 1whose hands is thy life and wayes, and all: and consider, that unlesse thou seriously lay thy sinnes to heart; this God is thy enemy, and him with whom for ever thou hast to doe.
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