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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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3 Again, dost thou hate those that are like the Lord? for if thou dost, thou hatest the Lord himself: for as we try our love to the Lord, by our love to the brethren; so our hatred also. Is there a secret dislike of them, though thou knowest not why, an antipathy, though happily thou canst not give a reason of it? It is because God hath put an enmity, and there no man can put amity: all endowments, sweetness of converse and disposition, eminency of parts in the Saints, will not take away the enmity that is in wicked men against them. David was a Poet, a soldier, a man of excellent parts, wise and valiant, yet had abundance of hatred amongst men for his goodness.
3 Againe, dost thou hate those that are like the Lord? for if thou dost, thou hatest the Lord himselfe: for as wee try our love to the Lord, by our love to the brethren; so our hatred also. Is there a secret dislike of them, though thou knowest not why, an antipathy, though happily thou canst not give a reason of it? It is because God hath put an enmity, and there no man can put amity: all endowments, sweetnesse of converse and disposition, eminency of parts in the Saints, will not take away the enmity that is in wicked men against them. David was a Poet, a souldier, a man of excellent parts, wise and valiant, yet had abundance of hatred amongst men for his goodnesse.
4 Again, dost thou not desire that there were ⟨p. 266⟩no God? Couldst thou not be content to live for ever in this world, so that thou were happy here, and so there were no hell? Couldst thou not be content that there were no heaven, no GOD, no Judge at the last? If every unregenerate man would examine himself, he should find this in himself. Now if any wish that such an one were not, that he were sublatus demedio, it is a sign he hates him: for that is the property of hatred, to desire the utter removal of the things hated.
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