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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.
But now the main question is, how shall we 1know whether we make the Lord our utmost end or no?
But now the maine question is, how shall wee 1know whether we make the Lord our utmost end or no?
- 1Quest. How to know we make the Lord our utmost end. Answ. Rule 1.Quest. How to know wee make the Lord our utmost end. Answ. Rule 1.
There are these rules may help you in it.
The utmost end gives rules to a mans whole life; ⟨p. 163⟩all other ends do it but in particular actions, and but at such and such a time, because they are but 1particular ends: but the utmost end doth command all in a man, all his ways and actions; therefore then thou makest the Lord thy utmost end, when in all thy actions whether public or private, thou lookest to the LORD: and in whatsoever a man doth, in all those respects and relations he stands in, whether he be a Magistrate or a private man, whether they be businesses or recreations, if GOD be a mans end, his eye will still be upon the LORD in all: Now he that doth not make GOD thus his utmost end, may find that he hath some secret byways of his own, some secret motions differing and contrary to God, wherein he goes, (as the planets that have a motion of their own) though it is not open to the world, unknown perhaps to himself, or not known at all times: but the utmost end commands all, and leaves nothing out, but the least action is subject to it.