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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. › DoctrineTHE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine
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.
Let every man consider, whether he be released or no from the plague of his heart; if that, there be not some calamity, which hangs continually on him: if there be, then know, thou art not humbled enough (the meaning is not, that thou shouldest be brought to an apprehension and fear of hell; but thy heart is to be brought down more; thou mayest be humbled truly so as to be within the covenant, and yet not enough to have thy heart wrought to 1this or that frame God would bring it unto.) And to bring your hearts lower, use these means.
Let every man consider, whether he be released or no from the plague of his heart; if that, there be not some calamity, which hangs continually on him: if there be, then know, thou art not humbled enough (the meaning is not, that thou shouldest be brought to an apprehension and feare of hell; but thy heart is to be brought down more; thou maiest be humbled truly so as to be within the covenant, and yet not enough to have thy heart wrought to 1this or that frame God would bring it unto.) And to bring your hearts lower, use these meanes.
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