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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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Consider therefore these things seriously, and bring them home to your hearts; for to what end do we preach? that you might know these things only, (that makes only for your further condemn nation, and you had better never to have known them) but we preach them, that you might lay them to heart: take therefore some thing to consider these things, and if you have found your selves failing in this, be not yet discouraged, but labour to make your hearts perfect for time to come, thus to seek the Lord alone.
Consider therefore these things seriously, and bring them home to your hearts; for to what end doe we preach? that you might know these things onely, (that makes onely for your further condem nation, and you had better never to have knowne them) but wee preach them, that you might lay them to heart: take therefore some thing to consider these things, and if you have found your selves failing in this, be not yet discouraged, but labour to make your hearts perfect for time to come, thus to seeke the Lord alone.
To exhort to which (which is the next use I 1make of it) and to quicken you to this, consider what great reason there is thou shouldest seek the Lord Jesus, and not thy self. Consider what ties ⟨p. 169⟩and bonds are upon thee towards him: the bargain between him and thee past.
To exhort to which (which is the next use I 1make of it) and to quicken you to this, consider what great reason there is thou shouldest seeke the Lord Iesus, and not thy selfe. Consider what ties ⟨p. 169⟩and bonds are upon thee towards him: the bargain between him and thee past.