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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. That if sin be once forgiven, the calamity will soon be taken away.
3. That if sinne bee once forgiven, the calamity will soone be taken away.
For the first, all calamity is from sin, troubles from transgression. In the chain of evils, sin is the first link that draws on all the rest; as grace is in the chain of blessings and comforts. Consider this in all kinds of judgements, which we may reduce to three heads.1
For the first, all calamity is from sinne, troubles from transgression. In the chaine of evills, sinne is the first linke that drawes on all the rest; as grace is in the chaine of blessings and comforts. Consider this in all kinds of judgements, which wee may reduce to three heads.1
- 13 Kind of Judgemen••3 Kinde of Iudgemen••
1. Temporal calamities, about the things of this life, they are all from sin, both public and private. What was the reason of Solomons troubles? The Lord stirred up an adversary against him, because he departed from the Lord, and had set up idolatry: so the sword departed not from Davids house, because of his sin with Bathsheba, and the murder of Uriah. So Asa,