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A09970	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.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 20227; ESTC S112474	187,142	312

bring That if you humble your selves and turne from your evill wayes God will be mercifull to you and heale you FINIS Horat. 1. 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 Doct. 2 Doct. 3 Doct. Reas. 1. 2. 3. Num. 16. 9 4 Vse 1. Psal. 4. Vse 2. Ier. 40. 2 Observe Gods dealing Psalm 30. 5 verse 7. Vse 3. God will be more severe to wicked men Psalm 50. 1 Cor. 10. 22 1 Prophane 2. Civil men Revel 2. Exod. 23. 21. Vse 4. Not to think strange that God afflicts his Doct. 2. God pitties his people in affliction Reas. 1. He is slow to afflict Psal. 78. 38. Simile 2 He sustaines them in afflictions Dan. 11. 33. 34. Zach. 13. 9. 〈◊〉 By moderating them To be afflicted in measure what Psal. 125. 3. Psalm 129. 3 4. 2 Fashioning their hearts to beare it 1 To Pray Rom. 8. 26. 2 To Repent 3 To Patience Psalme 3. Reas. 3. In bringing them through Esay 27. 8. 2 Kings 6. 33. 2 Chron. 28 22. Quest. Answ. Afflictions of Gods people worke good in the end Iames 1 2. God deales thus 1 Because they are his people Hose 11. 8. 1 Sam. 12. 22. Micah 7. 18. 2 They are called by his name Numb 14. Object Answ. Mistake in afflictions 2 Cor. 6. Object Answ. Afflictions needfull 2 God afflicts no more then needs Esay 28. 24. Object Answ. Difference in afflictions Ier. 24 Object Answ. Why God sends many and great afflictions Dan. 11. Vse 1. Not to bee discouraged in afflictions Psalme 31. Psalme 30. Mica 7. 8. Object Answ. No avoyding afflictions sent God in due time removes affliction Marks 5. Mar. 4. 40 41. Vse 2. To come to God when we have offended him 1 Sam. 12 20. What keeps men from comming to God Ieremy 3. Vse 3. To leade us to repentance Rom. 2. 4. Double performāce of Fasts 1 Publike 2 Private Zach. 12. 1 By confession of sinnes 2 Seeking reconciliation 3 Renewing covenants 4 To bee willing to leave fin 5. Labour to keepe our hearts in a good temper Dan. 11. Iames 4. Vse 4. To chuse the Lord for our God Heb. 11. 25. Psal. 119. 30 Happinesse in chusing God Motives to chuse God Ioy what Isay 26. 12. Psal. 31. 7. Vse 5. To confirm this choyce Doct. 3. The Lords Name called upon his People 2 1 Cor. 3. ult Reas. Because of Gods choyce Isa. 57. 15. Vse 1. To learne Obe dience We are not to serve our selves Luk. 14. 26. The nearenesse of our relation to God Ephes. 5. 31 32. verse 24. Iames 4. Exod. 23. 21 1 Cor. 7. 11. The wife the glory of the husband how 1 Pet. 2. 9 Vse 2. To humble our selves having sinned Humiliation double Love humbleth Ier. 2. 2 3. 2 Sam. 12. 7 8. Psalme 51. Two things in sinne Way to humiliation Cause of hardnesse of heart Levit. 23. 29 Object Answ. 1 God accepteth endeavours 2 Hel pes them Promises of Gods helpe Luk 11. 13. Zach. 12. 1● The Spirit workes humiliation Iob 42. Iob. 42. Vse 3. Not to pollute Gods Name Simile Vse 4. Not to be ashamed to professe Gods name Object Answ. 1 Men ashamed of the power of re ligion Simile 2 Before wicked men Mark 8. 38. Rom. 10. 10. Outward profession is required Why men are asham'd of profession 2 Sam. 6. 24 Deut. 4. 6. Vse 5. Comfort concerning our selves and the Church Esa. 4. 5 6. Object Answ. c 1 2 Doct. 4. Without hu miliation no mercy What meant by humiliation 1 2 1 Necessity of humiliation Humiliation required 1 By God the Father 2 God the Sonne Luk. 4. 4. 3 God the Holy Ghost Ioh. 16. 8. 〈◊〉 1 2 Reas. 1. From the necessity of it 1 The relation it hath to the other conditions 1 Seeking for Christ. 2 Seeking mer●cy Mat. 22. 5 6 Christs righteousnesse not esteemed by men unhumbled Reas. 3. No turning else from our evill wayes Simile Act ● Pride the cause of disobedience 2 Cor. 5. 10. Esay 66. 2. Reas. 4. Else there would not be constancy 2 Cor. 7. 10 Reas. 5. God should not have the praise of his mercy Why humiliation required first Reas. 1. No sacrifice accepted without it Psal. 51. 16 17. Reas. 2. It makes us Priests ● Cor. 8. 5. Reas. 3. Else the Spirit of God dwells not in us Esay 57. 15. Reas. 4. It makes us obedient in all things 2 Humiliation what Examples of men hum bled 2. Chron. 33. 12. Manasses The converts Acts 2. 37. The Goaler Acts 16. Prodigall Luk. 15. 〈◊〉 Humiliation of two parts Passive humiliation 〈◊〉 Sensiblenesse of sin 2 Feare of his estate 3 It workes consideration 1 It is wrought by the Law Simile The Law what 2 The Spirit workes humiliation 3 By afflictions Rom. 7. 2 Active humiliation Examples of this humiliation Luke 15. Foure pay●s of ingredients in it 1 Hope of 〈◊〉 mercy and sence of mi sery 2 Our owne emptinesse and Gods alsufficiency 3 Sence of our sinnes and Christs righteousnesse 4 A sence of Gods love and our unkindnesse Difference betweene active and passive humiliation 1 In the matter 2 In the ground 3 In the instrumentall causes 4 In their ef fects 1 2 3 4 5 Properties of this humiliation 1 Prayer 1 2 Seeke Gods face 3 Turne from sinne 2 Chron. 33. 23. Simile 2 To cleave fast to Christ. 1 2 Two things accompany this humiliation Falling away the ground of it 3 Moderates the affections 4 To love God much 5 To be content with any condition 1 In want of outward things 2 Bearing crosses Lev. 26. 41. Ezech. 36. Case Whether such a measure of Legall sorrow be necessary Answ. Sorrow dou ble Violent sorrow not alwayes necessary 1 It 〈◊〉 not alwayes the greatest 2 1 Not necessary on mans part 2 Nor on Gods part 1 2 Simile 3 Greatnesse of sorrow 1 Comfort comes late Simile 2 From ignorance Simile Object Answ. Sence of sin necessary Two ends of humiliation To take Christ. 2 For Sanctification Simile Vse 1. 1 Exhortation to those that are humbled Degrees of grace from degrees of humiliation 2 Faith ●aith what Simile 2 Love 2 To those that are not humbled 1 To see the greatnesse of sinne 1 Single out some great sinne Acts 2. 〈◊〉 Iohn 4. Simile Sins great how 5 To make past sinnes present 3 Let sorrow abide Psalme 51. 2 Cor. 12. Simile Ioel 2. 4 Take heed of false reasonings Other excuses are in those Sermons upon Rom. 1. 17 18. 2 The sight of our misery and vanity to that end 1 See the greatnesse of God 2 Our owne weaknesse 3 Labour for the Spirit Object Answ. God gives the Spirit in our indeavours Doct. The Lord is mercifull to the humble Levit. 23. 27 Lev. 16. 20. Iames 4. 6. Psalme 25. Esay 57. 15. Esay 62. 2. 2 Chron. 12 Reas. 1. They give God the glory Acts 3. Iohn 17. 4. Reas. 2. It keepes a man in com passe Simile Reas. 3. Makes a man usefull 〈◊〉 others

those hearers signified by the second and third ground did who received the seed with joy and as those of whom it is sayd Christ would not commit himself to them but stay with him men will not unlesse they be humbled For unlesse a man be brought to part with al for Christ and to sell all he will in the end repent of his bargaine if there bee a reservation of any thing the time will come he will goe backe and start aside like a broken Bowe and untill a man be throughly humbled he will not be brought to part with all for CHRIST he that is humbled he onely is the Merchant-like minded man who sells all hee hath and goes away rejoycing is glad at the heart that hee hath Christ though with the losse of the whole world he is willing to take Christ upon all conditions with losses and crosses and to deny himselfe in every thing for he knowes the bitternesse of sin and so sets such a price upon Christ as if the bargaine were to make againe he would doe as hee had done but the other what he hath done in a fit he repents him of afterwards and therefore true repentance which godly sorrow and true humiliation worketh is called repentance never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 10. Other sorrow than Godly may worke a repentance but it is such as men afterwards repent of Men are soone weary of the yoke of CHRIST because they have not felt how grievous the yoke of sin and Sathan is but to one who hath felt the burthen of sin the yoke of CHRIST is easie and sweete The last Reason hath relation to the last thing here promised of taking away the Iudgements and healing the Land God should not have the praise of his Iudgements and of his Mercy in taking them away unlesse men were humbled for if when God did afflict men he should restore them againe without this humiliation men would thinke that God wronged them before and now did but right them but when God hath humbled them so farre that they acknowledge his Iustice in afflicting them and their owne desert to be utterly destroyed and confesse that it is his mere Mercy they were not consumed and humble themselves under his mighty hand and now if the Iudgement be taken off and his wrath blowne over then they give him the praise of his Mercy and Iudgements Thus you see why of necessity it is required Now let us see the reason of the order of it why it is required thus in the first place It is the first condition here there is something in the order and to be said by way of reason for it and the reason in generall is because nothing is acceptable to God till the heart be humbled You may pray which is another condition and you may heare c. but all you doe is but lost labour unlesse it come from a broken heart For first that is alone a fit sacrifice for God without which act no sacrifice is accepted This you may see Psalme 51. 16 17. Thou desirest not sacrifice else I would give it thee thou delightest not in burnt offerings The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a contrite hart oh God thou wilt not despise David knew that till his heart was broken all his good deeds and all holy duties would have beene in vaine and it is as if David should have said Lord before I was thus humbled and my heart thus broken as in the beginning of the Psalme hee had expressed that it was Thou didst desire no sacrifice of me nor wouldst have delighted in no burnt offering from mee but the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and other duties but as they come from it This is the maine sacrifice and with out it nothing acceptable unlesse it be laid upon this low Altar which sanctifies the Sacrifice As it is only a fit Sacrifice for God so this only makes us fit Priests to God and before we are fit to offer a sacrifice acceptable we must be Priests and we become not Priests to God till we have offered our selves first to God as a sacrifice 2 Cor. 8. 5. and that we are not till we our selves be slaine and broken and so made a sacrifice Nothing is accepted till the Holy Ghost dwell in the heart and untill a man bee Humbled the Spirit of God dwells not in his heart And therefore what he doth till then savours not of the Spirit but a carnall heart and so is not acceptable Til a man is humbled he keepes the doore shut upon the Lord and His Spirit There is one within his heart is full already hee dwells in his owne heart himselfe therefore it is said Esa. 57. 15. That he dwells in a contrite heart that is in it alone for there is only roome for him to do what he will in all the chambers of it Vntill a man will be obedient in all things no thing he doth is acceptable Hee that turnes his eare from the Law his prayer shall bee abominable Now one that is not humbled throughly hee may bee obedient in many things hee may pray c. but yet he will have by wayes of his owne he hath not fully renounced himselfe that is not Humbled Now unlesse a mans obedience be generall nothing is acceptable And so wee come to the second thing propounded what this humiliation is and herein our maine enquiry is after that which is mainely intended in the text What it is to humble a mans selfe But because the finding of it out depends upon the other also wee will with it shew also what it is to be humbled that so wee may the better know the true humiliation required of us and for the finding out of this wee will first set before you the examples of them who have humbled themselves and have been humbled in Scripture and from thence gather what it is For this you shall finde Manasses in the 2 Chro● 33. in his affliction humbling himselfe greatly and the Lord was intreated of him vers 12. Likewise wee have that of S. Paul humbled Acts 9. 6 where we find him trembling and astonished and saying Lord what wil● thou have me doe See another example in Acts 2. 37. of those who were prickt in their hearts crying out what shall we do to bee saved And so of the Goaler Acts 16. who came trembling and astonied and would have killed himself and likewise of the Prodigall Luk. 15. which though a parable yet sets forth this condition of a soule humbled to us of whom it is said that none gave unto him and that hee came unto himselfe c. Out of all these we gather those two maine parts of Humiliation mentioned humiliation passive and active The first whereof makes way for the second unto which no promise is made and which may be found in an unregenerate man the second which is

heart is hard still It may be so indeed and your heart not softned but yet this I say First for thy comfort that if thou continue doing this the Lord accepteth it but if thou dost it not thy bloud shall bee upon thine own head we require that thou shouldst only labour to doe it and the Lord will accept it though thou art not able to soften thine heart And secondly know for thy comfort also that God will joyne with thee if thou labour thus with thy heart and send the spirit of humiliation on thee as the Disciples though they rowed all night yet CHRIST came at the last so though thou toilest many dayes and makest no proficiency as thou thinkest yet know that God at length will come and help thee and that because he hath commanded thee to doe this he will not suffer you to be doing that alwayes in vaine which he commandeth and therefore hee will come but that you may have the more ground for this remember that you have many promises made of Gods helpe as in Luk 11. 13. If yee then being evill know how to give good gifts unto your chil dren c. You shall never alone of your selves bee able to soften your hearts without the Holy Ghost but continue knocking and the Lord will give you the Holy Ghost though you bee but strangers So that every man may come to God and say Lord thou hast made such a promise thou canst not goe from thy word and therefore deny me not and bee earnest with God and hee cannot deny thee The woman of Canaan was not a Iew yet shee having this ground that hee was the Messias she would not bee put off therefore doe thou so and thou shalt in the end finde that thy heart is softned and the longer thou waitest the greater measure thou shalt have of the spirit and when thou hast him hee shall humble thy heart as in Zach. 12. 10. I will poure upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and supplications and they shall looke upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourne for him as one mourneth for an onely sonne The people of Israel were here exhorted to mourne and to separate themselves and to doe it every family apart The businesse was the same that you are to doe every fast-day Now sayes GOD if you seeke me aright you must have the spirit and sayes GOD I will doe my part I will poure on you the spirit of bowells for so the word may be translated The meaning of it is this that when the Spirit of God is thus upon you you will bee tenderly affected to the Lord even as a mother toward her child then saith hee they shall looke upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourne for him as one mourneth for his only sonne and be in bitternesse for him that is you shall then remember your rebellions and the remembrance of them shal be bitter to your soules as bitter things are to your tast so it was with Iosiah the reason why his heart melted and he wept when he heard the booke of the Law read was because he had the spirit of bowells which every one of us should have So Iob Now I have seene thee I abhorre my selfe Iob 42. he was not thus before he was a holy man but this was a new worke for says he I have heard of thee by the hearing of the eare but now my eye sees thee He was enlightened anew as it were the spirit shined into his heart with a new light I have beene in a myst all this while in comparison but now mine eye hath seene thee and I have an experimentall feeling of thee now I abhor my selfe It is a hard thing to abhorre a mans selfe thus which then a man doth when Gods Spirit with a new light enableth a man to see Gods love and kindnesse and his owne unkindnesse in their colours If the Lords Name be called upon us we should learne hence to keepe his Name faire to keepe it pure and unspotted As it was said of Saint Paul he was a chosen vessell to carry Gods Name and therefore it behooves them to take heed how it bee polluted by them or they give occasion that it be blasphemed for the evill committed by you reflects vpon the Name of the Lord. A small thing is a great matter in you one fly corrupts a box of oyntment but many flies in a barrell of Pitch or Tarre are counted nothing so many sinnes in a wicked man redound not so much to the dishonour of Gods Name as one in the Saints When a Saint doth a thing that is uncomely hee polluteth the Name of the Lord not that it can be polluted in it self but it seemes so to other men Before men are regenerate their sinnes are as blots upon a table before a Picture be drawne upon it which are not regarded of any but after it is drawne the least blot is seene of every one So it is when men are but strangers to God the sinnes which they commit reflect not to the disgrace of God but when Gods Image is renewed in a man then these sinnes are more taken notice of and cause the Name of God to be blasphemed of his enemies This should teach us not to be ashamed of God and the profession of his Name for shall the Lord not be ashamed of us as he shewes he is not when he is willing to put his Name upon us and shall we be ashamed of him it is an unreasonable and an unequall thing for a child to be ashamed of his father for a wife to bee ashamed of her husband and so for us to be ashamed of the Lord whose Name we beare This is the rather to bee spoken of because it is a fault very common amongst us that we doe not take notice of But the most will say we are not ashamed of religion but wee account it rather a glory to bee accounted Christians Give mee leave to examine you by these two Questions First are you not ashamed of the strictest ways of religion There is a common course of Religion that you need not be ashamed of because all are for it and commend it but yet there are some speciall acts of Religion that men cast shame upon such was that act of David when he daunced before the Arke which seemed absurd in Michals eyes for a King to doe yet he said I will be yes more vile some of the wayes of God give a more peculiar distaste to wicked men and there is a shame cast upon the power of Religion by reason that the multitude goeth another way Now what is singular that shame is cast upon as in any thing let the multitude have never so ill favoured a fashion it is no shame whereas if a few others weare a garment farre more