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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
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They then wanted Corn and Wine, &c. and sought them at GODS hands; but not me the LORD whom you had lost. Thou mayest seek salvation and deliverance from hell, out of the strength of natural wisdom, because it is for thy good: and also being convinced of the necessity of faith and repentance, to escape hell, and obtain salvation. Men may thereupon go far in the performance of many duties, and be constant a while in them, and yet not seek the Lords face in all these: and then the Lord regards them not. Take a thief that is arraigned 1at the bar, he will cry earnestly for his life, but yet he seeketh not the face of the Judge, i. e. he doth it without love to the Judge, but only out of the love of life: So we may do much to escape hell, and to attain the life opposite to it, and yet all this while not seek the presence of God, and then GOD regards it not. You find this disposition in your selves, and ⟨p. 134⟩see it in others: if a man be never so observant of any of you, and perform never so many offices of friendship to you, yet if a man can say he loves me not for all this, he doth not prize me, nor desire my love and favour so much for it self, but for his own ends; in this case you care not for what he doth: So the LORD, he knows the heart and the reins, and what thine end is, whether it be communion with his person immediately, or thine own welfare merely; and if so, regards not thy humbling thy self nor thy prayers. The promise you see is suspended upon it: it is a distinguishing point, and will separate between the precious and the vile, it is a mark set upon Gods people alone: To seek Gods face2
They then wanted Corne and Wine, &c. and sought them at GODS hands; but not me the LORD whom you had lost. Thou mayest seeke salvation and deliverance from hel, out of the strenght of naturall wisedome, because it is for thy good: and also being convinced of the necessity of faith and repentance, to escape hell, and obtain salvation. Men may thereupon go farre in the performance of many duties, and be constant a while in them, and yet not seeke the Lords face in all these: and then the Lord regards them not. Take a thiefe that is arraigned 1at the bar, he will cry earnestly for his life, but yet he seeketh not the face of the Iudge, i. e. he doth it without love to the Iudge, but onely out of the love of life: So we may do much to escape hel, and to attain the life opposite to it, and yet all this while not seeke the presence of God, and then GOD regards it not. You find this disposition in your selves, and