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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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The next point is gathered from the order of the words, turning from our evil ways being put last of all these four conditions, because all the other do but make way for this. All the other, prayer and humiliation, are but preparatives to this. As the end of all dressing and pruning of trees is the fruit, and the end of ploughing and sowing is the bringing forth of corn, so the end of all other duties is turning from our evil ways, and the end is always hardest, omnis difficultas in ipsa summitate, in the utmost pitch and top of the hill; this being the utmost of all the other is therefore the hardest: Therefore the Prophets urge this upon all occasions; if you turn, cease to do evil, rend your hearts, then will I leave a blessing behind me. In that this is the pin upon which all hangs and is suspended; observe thence,
The next point is gathered from the order of the words, turning from our evill wayes being put last of all these foure conditions, because all the other doe but make way for this. All the other, prayer and humiliation, are but preparatives to this. As the end of all dressing and pruning of trees is the fruit, and the end of plowing and sowing is the bringing forth of corne, so the end of all other duties is turning from our evill wayes, and the end is alwayes hardest, omnis difficultas in ipsa summitate, in the utmost pitch and top of the hill; this being the utmost of all the other is therefore the hardest: Therefore the Prophets urge this upon all occasions; if you turne, cease to do evill, rend your hearts, then will I leave a blessing behind me. In that this is the pin upon which all hangs and is suspended; observe thence,