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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. Because crosses do come for sin. Indeed, some are not for sin, but for trial, for the confirmation 1of the Gospel; some for the glory of ⟨p. 291⟩God, as that blindness in the blind man; some for trial only, as Abraham's offering up his son, yet for the most part they come from sin.
1. Because crosses do come for sinne. Indeed, some are not for sinne, but for triall, for the confirmation 1of the Gospell; some for the glory of ⟨p. 291⟩God, as that blindnesse in the blind man; some for triall onely, as Abrahams offering up his sonne, yet for the most part they come from sinne.
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2. God never afflicts but for our profit: so says 1the Apostle, Heb. 12. Our fathers after the flesh corrected us, not always for our profit, but they out of passion oftentimes; but, He for our profit: Now when he hath thereby made us partakers of his holiness, and so we have ceased from sin, then he will cease to afflict.
2. God never afflicts but for our profit: so says 1the Apostle,