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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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I will ask you first whose servant art thou? and 1should not the servant seek the profit of his master? if a man sees a company of sheep, and he asks whose sheep are these? says another to him, such a mans; for he hath bought and paid for them; and hath not Christ bought thee? and besides this his first buying of thee, who gives thee thy wages, and provides for thee, meat, drink, and clothing? and is there not reason thou shouldest serve him alone? Then, if thou beest perfectly a servant (as thou art) thou doest wrong to the LORD, if thou doest not serve him.
I will aske you first whose servant art thou? and 1should not the servant seek the profit of his master? if a man sees a company of sheep, and he askes whose sheep are these? sayes another to him, such a mans; for he hath bought and paid for them; and hath not Christ bought thee? and besides this his first buying of thee, who gives thee thy wages, and provides for thee, meat, drinke, and cloathing? and is there not reason thou shouldest serve him alone? Then, if thou beest perfectly a servant (as thou art) thou doest wrong to the LORD, if thou doest not serve him.
- 11 we are his servants.
Again secondly, I ask thee who is thy husband? 1Is not the Lord Jesus? and if thou beest his wife, oughtest thou not to seek his things? one that is unmarried is yet her own; but when she is married, she is her husbands. When there was no King in Israel, every man did what was good in his own eyes: and if thou hadst no husband, no King, so mightest thou; but thou art not tui juris, the covenant is past already, thou art not now to choose; if thou sayest no, consider that when thou wert baptized, it was into the Name of the Lord, and that by way of a vow,