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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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But you will say, how is it, that calamities thus ⟨p. 285⟩1follow upon sin? we feel no such thing: and thus because it is deferred, the hearts of men are set to do evil.
But you will say, how is it, that calamities thus ⟨p. 285⟩1follow upon sinne? wee feele no such thing: and thus because it is deferred, the hearts of men are set to doe evill.
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All this is to be understood with this caution, that sin when it is perfected, brings forth death, 1and not till then. God stayed till Ahab had oppressed Naboth, and gotten possession, and then when he was seen, God sends the message of death to him, What, hast thou killed, and also taken possession? Thus Judas, he was a thief whilst he kept the bag, and went on in many sins in Christs family, and Chri stlets him alone, and he goes on till he had betrayed his Master; and then when his sin was perfected, and come to its full ripeness, then at last CHRIST comes with judgement upon him. There is a certain period of judgement, and if the Lord stay execution till then, thou hast little cause to comfort thy self, Eccles. 8. 11, 12. Because sentence 2against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of men are set to do evil: As if the wise man should have said, Go to you, you that have peace, and comfort your selves in this, that whatsoever the Word and the Ministers threaten, yet you feel nothing; yet remember that as soon as the sin is committed, the sentence goeth forth, (& therefore he useth the word sentence to express this) though it be not so speedily executed, yet it goes forth at the same time with the commission of the sin. The sentence, you know, is one thing, the execution another; and many times there is (and so may be here) a long distance betwixt the sentence of the Judge, and the execution