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The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignityThe golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The next point from these words is:
That if the calamity be removed, and the sin be 1not healed, it is never removed in mercy, but in judgement.
That if the calamity bee removed, and the sinne bee 1not healed, it is never removed in mercy, but in judgement.
- 1Doct. Calamities may be removed in judgementDoct. Calamities may bee removed in judgement
He doth here promise first to forgive the sin, and then to heal the Land; so as if he should have healed the Land without forgiveness, it had been no mercy.
Hee doth here promise first to forgive the sinne, and then to heale the Land; so as if hee should have healed the Land without forgivenesse, it had beene no mercy.