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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.
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.
- 11 See the greatness of God.1 See the greatnesse of God.
Consider what a weak creature thou art; think ⟨p. 109⟩1with thy self; a sickness may come on my body, a cross may come on my estate, yea an apprehension 2of my soul, that may suck up the marrow of my bones; and above all, I have an immortal soul in a vessel of clay; and think when that glass, that shell is broke, what will become of that poor soul of thine: And this would bring a man to the Prodigals case. Belshazzar saw this, when he saw the hand writing upon the wall. Had it not been wisdom in him to have seen and acknowledged it before? Thou art well now; thou doest not know what alterations may befall thee in the year, and thou hadst better leave a thousand businesses undone, than this.
Consider what a weake creature thou art; thinke ⟨p. 109⟩