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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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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, 2 Chron. 16. 1the Prophet tells him, Hence forth thou shalt have war, because thou hast not rested on the Lord. I could give a hundred instances for this.
1. Temporall calamities, about the things of this life, they are all from sinne, both publike and private. What was the reason of Salomons troubles? The Lord stirred up an adversary against him, because hee departed from the Lord, and had set up idolatry: so the sword departed not from Davids house, because of his sinne with Bathsheba, and the murther of Vriah. So Asa, 2 Chron. 16. 1the Prophet tels him, Hence forth thou shalt have warre, because thou hast not rested on the Lord. I could give a hundred instances for this.
2. Sort of judgements are spiritual, which are much more grievous than the former; when a man is given up to his lusts, and to hardness of heart: and this proceedeth from some other sins that went before; and it is a sure rule, that you never see a man given up to work uncleanness with greediness, or to such open scandalous sins, but the first rise of it was his unconscionable walking with God in secret, as the Apostle Paul says of the Gentiles.