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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
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.
1. That they are so many. 2. So great. 3. That they are reiterated and often fallen into.1
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Now the sprinkling of the blood of Christ thus offered is sufficient to cleanse your consciences from, and to take away all these, Ezek. 36. 25. then will I 1sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. The blood of Christ is the water there ⟨p. 262⟩meant, which cleanseth from sin and filthiness; and from all, though never so many; and from filthiness, and idols, from such sins, though never so great. Ah! but I have also fallen often into them, Zach. 13. 1. His blood is therefore compared to a fountain set open for sin and for uncleanness; not a cistern, but a fountain, a continual spring perpetually running to cleanse us; so that as there is a spring of sin in us, so as we are defiled again and again, so there is a spring of virtue in his blood, to cleanse us, never to be dried up.
Now the sprinkling of the bloud of Christ thus offered is sufficient to cleanse your consciences from, and to take away all these, Ezek. 36. 25. then will I 1sprinkle cleane water upon you, and yee shall bee cleane from all your filthinesse, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. The bloud of Christ is the water there ⟨p. 262⟩