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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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I answer you, we preach damnation to you whilst you are in such courses, and would make you despair of your selves, to drive you out of your selves unto Christ, and it were an hour well spent, to put you out of hope; but what? may we have no hope left? None, in the estate you stand, but that of the hypocrite, which perisheth with him: for if thy hope were true, it would purify thy heart, as S. John speaks. But I may pray? But if thou continuest in thy sins, thy sins shall out cry thy prayers, and at the day of thy death, when the least interest of these promises will be worth a world, it will be said to thee, that thou hadst nothing to do with them, and there was a time when God called upon thee, and thou wouldst not: and therefore then, though thou cry to him, God will not hear thee.
I answer you, we preach damnation to you whilst you are in such courses, and would make you despaire of your selves, to drive you out of your selves unto Christ, and it were an houre well spent, to put you out of hope; but what? may wee have no hope left? None, in the estate you stand, but that of the hypocrite, which perisheth with him: for if thy hope were true, it would purifie thy heart, as S. Iohn speakes. But I may pray? But if thou continuest in thy sinnes, thy sinnes shall out cry thy prayers, and at the day of thy death, when the least interest of these promises will bee worth a world, it will bee said to thee, that thou hadst nothing to doe with them, and there was a time when God call'd upon thee, and thou wouldst not: and therefore then, though thou cry to him, God will not heare thee.
But if there be any broken-hearted sinner desiring 1to fear the Lord, and serve him sincerely, that have this witness in their consciences, that though they do not that good they would, yet they strive against all sins, allow themselves in none, whether small or great; to you I say, that of the Apostle, 1 Pet. 1. 13. Trust perfectly on the grace brought unto you by the revelation of Jesus Christ, [Greek or Hebrew],