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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

THE GOLDEN SCEPTER with The Churches Marriage And THE CHURCHES CARRIAGE In three Treatissis BY The late Learned Divine IOHN PRESTON D r. in D. Chap in Ordinary to his Ma tie M r. of Emmanuell Colledge in Cambridge And sometime Preacher of Lincolnes Inne London Printed by R. Badger for N. Bourne A. Boler R. Harford sould at y e Royall Exchange at y e Marigold in Paules Chu yard at y e Bible in Queens head Alley in Pater Noster Row 1639 THE GOLDEN SCEPTER held forth to the humble VVITH THE CHVRCHES DIGNITIE by her Marriage AND THE CHVRCHES DVTIE 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 D r. in Divinity Chaplaine in Ordinary to His Majesty M r. of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and somtime Preacher at Lincolnes Inne PSALM 45 6. Thy throne O GOD is for ever and ever the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter IER 3. 14. Returne O back-sliding children for I am married unto you HOS 2. 7. I will goe and returne unto my first husband for then it was better with me than now LON●ON Printed by R. Badger for N Bourne at the Royall Exchange and R. Harford at the gilt BIBLE in Queenes-head Alley in Pater-noster Row and by F. Eglesfield at the MARIGOLD in PAULS Church-yard 1638. TO THE TRVLY VERTVOVS AND RELIGIOVS Gentleman RICHARD KNIGHTLEY Esquire SIR IT hath beene our custome hitherto who were deputed by the Author to this service to inscribe or dedicate the severall tractates wee have put forth to some or other of his speciall friends as proofs of our fidelity in discharging of the trust reposed in us and speciall emblemes of the Authours great abilities For if in every triviall and small Epistle a man do exarare animam imprint upon the paper some peeces of his soule he doth it much more doubtlesse in his studied exercises wherein he cannot but conceive his memory may live and some part of himselfe be kept alive and sweet to all posterity If he could say non omnis moriar because he was a Poet and think his Poem perennius aere a monument that time it selfe would not be able to divoure how much more may he say it that drawes himselfe unto the life in an immortall Dye and writes such characters as are not subject to decay and perish For all flesh is grasse and all the glory of man as the flower of grasse the grasse withereth and the flower falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 24 25. Seeing therefore it hath pleased God to preserve these peeces yet alive and after long deferring and desiring to produce and bring them forth to publike view we have thought good in a prime and speciall manner to entitle you unto them and to send them out unto the world under the covert and shadow of your name For seeing it pleased the Authour to choose your habitation wherein to put off and lay up his then decaying and declining body why should it not bee proper and convenient to send these living and surviving peeces of his soule for to attend it considering especially how much his body heretofore had waited on his soule which otherwise in humane probabilitie might still have beene alive Neither is there any doubt but these vigorous and usefull breathings of his spirit wil find accesse and entertainment where his languid and at last his breathlesse body did Especially these which may more properly be counted his than any thing that hitherto hath seene the light and this wee dare be bold to say for these that none of them did more expresse the Authour to the life Those that did either know him in his life time or since have much and frequently perused his writings shall find these three things every where occurring The foulenesse of sinne the freenesse of grace and the fulnesse of duty which in other peeces onely scattered and sparkling here and there are here collected under proper heads and handled so professedly and clearely as nothing more concerning them can be desired In the first are the danger and deformity of sin driving the spouse to sad and low expressions of her selfe as those virgins were commanded Deut. 21. 11 12 13. Even to shave her head and pare her nailes and bewaile her father and her mother that is her naturall and inbred evils and corruptions In the second is the glorious freenesse of the grace of Christ receiving this dejected and humbled captive unto favour and with that great King Hest. 5. 2. reaching forth the Golden Scepter of his love and mercy to her not onely to the pardon and forgivenesse of all her sin but intitling also of her unto all things for all things are hers whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things prosent or things to come all are hers because she is Christs 1 Cor. 3. 21 22. In the third the fulnesse of her duty is prest upon her for the grace of God that bringeth salvation doth no sooner appeare to any man but it teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. 11 12. that as before Ahasuerus had the virgins purified that were to approach his bed with various and costly powders and perfumes Hest. 2. 12 c. so Christ when once the soule is faithfully espoused unto him perfumes and washes her in his most precious bloud and beautifies her with variety of graces that he may present her to himselfe a glorious Spouse not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be holy and without blame Eph. 5. 27. And now what rests but that these Treatises crave shadow protection from you nay owne you for their Patron Doth not the low and humble posture of your mind intitle you unto the first your high opinion of free grace unto the second and your holy and spotlesse carriage to the third Having so just a title besides other ingagements by this threefold clayme 't is but justice to call your name upon it and by your acceptance of it you shall shew friendship to this Posthume and especially oblige Your already much obliged and ingaged THOMAS GOODVVIN THOMAS BALL The Contents of the first Treatise Doct. 1. GOd afflicts his owne people 3 Reas. 1. Because he loves them 4 2. That his name be not blasphemed Ibid. 3. He will be sanctified in those that draw neare him Ibid. 4. He walks among them 5 Vse 1. To feare the Lord. 6 2. Want of feare provoketh God 13 3. Gods severity to wicked men 18 4. Not to think strange that God afflicts his 19 Doct. 2. God pities his people in affliction 20 Reas. 1. 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had thought to have gon off sooner but that the Supper of the Lord drawes neare which time is a day of reconciliation such as was that Feast the tenth day in the seventh moneth when the people all meeting together Aaron the Priest confessed their sins over the scape Goate which fled into the wildernesse which was a type of Christ taking away all our sins and the same is done and represented when we receive the Sacrament Now one condition required of the people at that time was that they should humble themselves and every soule that did not was to be cut off Levit. 23. 27. to the 30. verse and that letting goe of the scape Goate was at the same time as appeares Levit. 16. 20. to the 31. But to come to the point the Scripture is plentifull to prove it Iames 4. 6. God giveth grace to the humble sanctifying grace and also saving knowledge Psal. 25. He shewes his secrets unto the humble yea he dwelleth in such Esay 57. 15. he hath an especiall eye to such those eyes that runne through the whole earth fixe themselves on the humble man for good Esay 62. 2. other things have my hand made yet them he regards not in comparison To him will I looke that is humble he promiseth also to fill them with good things to give them preferment and honour to exalt the humble and meeke yea hee regards it so that when evill men have humbled themselves they have not gone away without some mercy as when Ahab humbled himselfe 2 Chron. 12. God promised he would not bring the evill in his dayes and the best of Gods children when they have not humbled themselves hee hath withdrawne his favour from them as he would not looke on David till he had humbled himselfe All the world cannot keep an humble man down nor all the props in the world cannot keep a proud man up And what are the reasons why God respecteth humble men so An humble man giveth God all the glory and him that honoureth mee saith GOD I will honour Now an humble man doth as Ioab did Ioab would not take the victory to himselfe but sent for David and it was the deepest policy that ever Ioab used and so the Apostles Acts 3. know that JESUS hath made this man whole and it is the humble mans wisedome in all actions not to set themselves up but to say no matter how I be regarded so God be glorified and God will honour such therefore CHRIST in his prayer makes this a ground of being glorifyed by God Iohn 17. I have glorified thee on earth now father glorifie me And so God will deale with his Saints in a proportion Humility keepes a man within his owne compasse but pride lifts a man up above his proportion it puts all out of joynt and breeds disorder and that bringeth destruction and therefore humility was defined by some of the Ancients to bee that which out of the knowledge of GOD and a mans selfe keepes a man to his owne bottome That whereas a proud man liftes up himselfe above his measure as a member in the body that swells takes up more roome then it should and are as bubbles in the water which should bee plaine and smooth but this brings all into its place againe gives the Creator his due and sets the creature where it should be and therefore God loves it It makes a man sociable and usefull and profitable to others a man would not have a stubborne horse that will not goe in the teame with his fellowes nor such high trees as overshadow others and will not suffer them to grow by them and bring forth no fruit themselves A man will not keepe a Cow or an Oxe that is still a pushing and such an one is a proud man it is but and onely the humble man that will live profitably amongst his neighbours and will not goe beyond his owne Tedder An humble man hath such a frame of heart as the LORD delights in for hee is fearefull to offend alwayes obedient ready to doe any service and is content with any wages loves much is abundant in thankfulnesse and cleaves fast to the LORD because hee hath no bottome of his owne and keepeth under his lusts because hee knowes the bitternesse of sinne resignes up his heart to the Lord to follow him in all things hee is a man of the Lords desires so it is said of Daniel when he had humbled himselfe Dan. 9. Such an one as the Lord would have and so it makes him fit for favour and when a man is fit for favour he shall bee sure to have it for God is not streight-handed to us Hath the LORD said it and that from heaven that if a man doe humble himselfe hee will forgive him Then this is a matter of great consolation when I can say from GOD to any one here that droopes that if thou doest and wilt humble thy selfe the LORD will forgive thee consider it this is newes from heaven Put the case to compare spirituall things with things which you are more sensible of that any of you had committed high treason against the King and thou hadst forfeited thy life and goods if any one should come from the King to thee and tel thee that if thou wouldest goe to him and humble thy selfe it should be pardoned And is not our case the same We are guilty of eternall death and have forfeited life and all when therefore GOD himselfe shall say If thou wilt humble thy selfe thy sinnes shall bee forgiven what comfort is it such a word as this should not be lost A man that knowes the bitternesse of sinne would waite and waite againe to gaine such a word as this from the LORDS mouth and would keepe it as his life It was not a light thing to get such a word as this from God none but a favourite could get it nay none but his Son and hee not but by his death if CHRIST had not provided this Charter for us every man should have dyed in his sinnes Now this we can and doe say from GOD through CHRIST that though your sinnes be great and you have fallen into them many a time and committed them with the worst of circumstances yet if thou humblest thy self thou shalt be forgiven so as thou mayst say I may challenge God of his promise and put this bond in suite and he cannot deny it This is a great matter if a man shall but seriously consider what it is to have this great God the Governor of the World to bee an enemy one would thinke they should thinke this Gospell good newes But you will say I doe yet neither know distinctly what it is to humble my selfe neither can I humble my selfe there is not a harder thing then it is Therefore I will shew it you once againe that you may know it for why should wee