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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. › Doctrine 2THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 2
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But you will say, for all these good words and 1setting it forth thus, we are sure, and see and feel by experience, that the Saints always fare as ill as the worst when general afflictions come, Plague, Sword or Captivity, they are swept away by these as well as others, and what afflictions are there (go through the sons of men,) that fall not upon the Saints as well as upon others?
But you will say, for all these good words and 1setting it forth thus, we are sure, and see and feele by experience, that the Saints alwayes fare as ill as the worst when general afflictions come, Plague, Sword or Captivity, they are swept away by these as well as others, and what afflictions are there (go through the sonnes of men,) that fall not upon the Saints as well as upon others?
- 1Object.
For answer, it is true, those deluges of afflictions 1which over-whelme whole Countries take away one as well as another, yet there is a difference, as Jer. 24. all were carried into the same captivity by 2the same King, but yet they were carried in divers baskets, the bad in one basket, the good in another; which shows the condition of the one was different from the other: First the LORD knows the good figs, his eyes are upon them for good, to see that no hurt should befall them, that was hurt indeed: And secondly, again he did but send them into captivity, as one is sent of an errand, but the other are led as a condemned man to the Jail: Thirdly, he would bring them again, when they had done the business for which they were sent, when they had humbled themselves, sanctified his name more; many the like ends the LORD hath: but the other he utterly destroyed, and they never returned.