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The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignityThe golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie
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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but it hath cost him dear to have the opportunity to do it, it cost him his Son; and then consider the great love of his Son, that he would give himself, and when 1he was equal to his Father in glory, would yet leave all to come under the same roof with thee; and what he hath done, if it had not been done, thou haddest been undone for ever; and consider how often he hath stood with thee in a strait, pleaded thy case, and pacified his father for thee; and labour to be led by all these rivers and streams of his goodness to that sea of his personal excellencies that are in him; and gather an Idea of him into your minds out of all you have heard or seen of him; the end of all these acts of his providence, is that men might know him by all these. As when you would have a man known to another, you go about to comm••d him to him, to describe him; it is good to do so of the Lord, to be often expressing ⟨p. 182⟩his excellencies to others, and meditating of them our selves; it may perhaps win others to him; however it will quicken thy self, and exercise thy love towards him. There is a double way of knowing things, as I told you; one by report, another by sight. Do thou labour to know him by experience, so as to be able to say, I know him to be thus and thus, and therefore I will cleave to him.
but it hath cost him deare to have the opportunity to doe it, it cost him his Sonne; and then consider the great love of his Sonne, that hee would give himselfe, and when 1hee was equall to his Father in glory, would yet leave all to come under the same roofe with thee; and what he hath done, if it had not beene done, thou haddest been undone for ever; and consider how often he hath stood with thee in a strait, pleaded thy case, and pacified his father for thee; and labour to bee led by all these rivers and streames of his goodnesse to that sea of his personall excellencies that are in him; and gather an Idea of him into your mindes out of all you have heard or seene of him; the end of all these acts of his providence, is that men might know him by all these. As when you would have a man knowne to another, you goe about to comm••d him to him, to describe him; it is good to do so of the Lord, to be often expressing