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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. › Doctrine 7THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 7
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.
There is a strict command to rehearse the way of God upon all occasions. Those families wherein nothing is done for the bringing them up in the ways of the Lord, have a way of wickedness in them, and search it out.
There is a strict command to rehearse the way of God upon all occasions. Those families wherein nothing is done for the bringing them up in the wayes of the Lord, have a way of wickednesse in them, and search it out.
I have insisted the longer upon particulars, because it is the spreading of the net that catcheth the ⟨p. 204⟩fish. Therefore Saint Paul condescends to particulars, whereas he might have contented himself with generals, Rom. 1. 29. as being filled with all unrighteousness. But he adds a catalogue of many 1particulars; fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, &c. So 1 Cor. 6. 9. the Apostle says, Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? that might have 2been enough in the general, yet he brings in a catalogue of many particulars; Be not deceived, no fornicator, nor drunkard, &c. shall inherit the kingdom of God, as if he should have said, should I stay my self in these general terms, you would be ready to shift it off, therefore I speak it of every particular course of sinning. When a man is to shoot at a multitude of birds, he puts not in one bullet only, but hail shot, so when we are to speak to many 3people, we are to make application of many particulars. Nathan applied his message in particular in David, and if Ministers should omit it, yet the people should themselves bring generals to particulars in applying the word to themselves at home, and in applying these particulars let them consider the doctrine delivered, that if there be any of these or any other way of wickedness in a man, he cannot be saved.