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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

their iniquity and why because hee remembred they were but flesh And indeed one would wonder how the LORD could forgive so obstinate a people that had such experience of his power and mercy by those great workes which he wrought afore them in bringing them out of Egypt yet he did because he remmebred and wisely considered what ingredients went to make up their natures hee remembred they were but flesh So Psalme 103. 13 14. the former part of that Psalme is nothing else but an expression of promises of forgivenesse and in the 14. verse he gives this as the reason of all for hee knowes our frame hee remembereth that wee are dust hee knowes whereof we are made and therefore is exceeding mercifull 4 Whereas there is one Attribute from which you object against the pardon of their sinnes that the Lord notwithstanding is just and this terrifies you and puts you off even from this we may fetch an argument to strengthen our faith herein for know that the Lord is therefore ready and willing to forgive because hee is just 1 Iohn 1. 9. If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull and just to forgive us This is the ground of all our comfort that he eis just and faithfull for is he not engaged by promise and is hee not faithfull to keepe his promise Againe hath hee not beene satisfied and paid for our sinnes by CHRIST and his justice will not suffer him to require a second payment It is just now with him to forgive faithfulnesse hath reference to his promises justice to that bloud of CHRIST the ransome received which cleanseth us from all our sinnes 5 If all these will not serve to perswade our hearts to believe the Lord descends a little lower and helpes us out with an argument of his readinesse to pardon from the consideration of what is in our selves consider how you would deale with your children Psal. 103. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord them that feare him If a child that is yours offend you an hundred times yet if he come in and humble himselfe you will pardon him And will not God when his people humble themselves Wee use but such arguments as God himselfe doth and doe but set him and your consciences together to reason the case But you will object againe and say it is possible for a child so to offend as that a father will not nor cannot forgive him True but the Psalmists meaning is not as if GOD would pardon no more then an earthly father but on the contrary if you that are earthly fathers can doe so much I that am an infinite Lord God and not man can doe much more who is Omnipotent and can doe whatsoever he will and shews his omnipotency in pardoning I compare with this Esay 55. 9. My thoughts are not as your thoughts What though your sinnes bee great and in their owne thoughts unpardonable and you thinke them greater then can bee forgiven but my thoughts sayes GOD are not as your thoughts he speakes this of pardoning but as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my thoughts above your thoughts and my waies above yours in multiplying to pardon Though you could not forgive nay though you cannot think or imagine how such transgressions should be forgiven yet I can forgive them A second sort of arguments is taken from the meanes and instrument by which forgivenesse is conveyed Wee are come to IESUS the Mediator of the new covenant and to the bloud of sprinkling which speakes better things then the bloud of Abel Hebrewes 12. 24. Hee speakes this as an encouragement to their faith and it is as if hee had said consider how the bloud of Abel though but the bloud of a poore man cryed so loud that it came up to heaven that it brought down vengeance upon Cain how loud then shall CHRISTS bloud speake What is it able to procure for us which speakes better things that is for mercy which God is more ready to heare the cry for then for vengeance and this cry is not of the bloud of an ordinary man as Abel was but of the bloud of his owne Sonne to which purpose compare with this that place Heb. 9. 14. How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered up himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead workes As in the other place hee compares it with Abels bloud so here with the blood of Buls and Goates which in the old law served by Gods appointment for the outward purification of the flesh how much more how infinitely transcendently more above our thoughts or imaginations shall the bloud of the Sonne of God bee able to purge your consciences wee not able to conceive nor he to expresse hee onely sayes how much more c. and hee backeth it with two Reasons which put together shew the transcendency of that sufficiency in Christs bloud to cleanse us the first from the eternall Spirit whereby hee offered up himselfe it was not the bloud or sacrifice of a meere man but of God which sacrifice was in it selfe without spot There are three objections wee usually make against our selves by reason of our sins 1. That they are so many 2. So great 3. That they are reiterated and often fallen into Now the sprinkling of the bloud of Christ thus offered is sufficient to cleanse your consciences from and to take away all these Ezek. 36. 25. then will I sprinkle cleane water upon you and yee shall bee cleane from all your filthinesse and from all your idols will I cleanse you The bloud of Christ is the water there meant which cleanseth from sinne and filthinesse and from all though never so many and from filthinesse and idols from such sinnes though never so great Ah! but I have also fallen often into them Zach. 13. 1. His bloud is therefore compared to a fountaine set open for sinne and for uncleannesse not a cisterne but a fountaine a continuall spring perpetually running to cleanse us so that as there is a spring of sinne in us so as wee are defiled againe and againe so there is a spring of vertue in his bloud to cleanse us never to be dried up The last reason is taken from the freenesse of the covenant which God hath made with mankind if any man bee a thirst yea if any man will come let him come and drinke of the waters of life freely See the manner how it is set downe Iohn 7. 37. In the last day a great day of the feast Iesus stood and cryed saying if any man thirst let him come to me and drinke hee makes a proclamation for all to come as also Rev. 21. 6. and 22. 17. where he makes the like generall invitation and adds that they shall have it freely so the tenour of the covenant runnes that if any thirst those indeed