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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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The nature of holiness is expressed in two 1things: First, in pureness: Secondly, sequestration to God, so that holiness, purity, and chastity are much alike as it were, as there is also much affinity 2between the Greek words [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]: Chastity in a Wife stands in keeping close to her husband; and being sequestered from all other; and Gods holiness consists, first in the pureness of his nature, and secondly in a sequestration of all things to himself: 3Now our holiness is not so, but we being ⟨p. 152⟩of another cause, we must do all for another end; our holiness stands therefore in giving up our selves to the Lord: therefore says Isaiah, Sanctify the Lord, and make him your dread; as if he had said, if you make any thing else your dread, you do not sanctify the Lord. What he says of fear, is true of all our affections, and actions: holiness dedicates all unto the Lord: and some actions are holy for 4the substance of them, as Prayer, keeping the Lords day, &c. and all such immediate duties of his worship, some by putting a right end upon them; and so all actions may be holy of what kind soever, as recreations, which are common actions, and eating and drinking, all which when done to the Lord, do become holy. It is the nature of moral actions to take their specification from their circumstances, especially their end, more then from the substance it self: and so all such common actions may be holy to the LORD, and so that place of Saint Peter is to be understood, be holy in manner of conversation, 1 Pet. 1. in all the turnings of your lives, even in common actions, this being the 5nature of holiness in the general, both as in God and in our actions.
The nature of holinesse is expressed in two 1