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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

slow to affl●ct 21 2. He sustaines them in affliction Ibid. 3. He brings them through affliction 25 Vse 1. Not to be discouraged in affliction 32 2. To come to God when we have offended him 35 3. To lead us to repentance 37 4 To choose the Lord for our God 41 5. To confirme us in that choice 45 Doct 3. The Lords name is called upon his people 47 Reas. God hath chosen them 48 Vse 1. To learne obedience 49 2. To humble our selves 53 3. Not to pollute Gods name 59 4. Not to be ashamed to professe Gods name Ibid. Comfort concerning our selves and the Church 63 Doct 4. Without humiliation no mercy 66 Reas. 1. The necessity of humiliation 69 2. Els there will be no returning from sin 71 3. Els there will be no constancy 73 4. Els God should not have the praise of his mercy 74 Vse 1. Exhortation to the humble 101 2. To those that are not humbled 103 Doct. 5. The Lord is mercifull to the humble 112 Reas. 1. To give God the glory 113 2. Humility keeps a man in compasse Ibid. 3. It makes him usefull to others 114 4. It makes him obedient 114 Vse 1. Consolation to the humble 115 2. To strengthen faith 118 3. To be humble in afflictions 123 4. Exhortation to be more humble 124 5. Not to apply the promises without humiliation 131 Doct. 6. All performances nothing without seeking Gods face 132 Reas. God is holy 150 Vse 1. To examine if we seeke Gods face 153 2. To seeke the Lord and not our selves 168 3. Not to forget the Lord in the middest of his mercies 172 Doct. 7. No interest in promises without turning from evill wayes 186 Vse 1. Examination 197 2. No duties serve without turning 219 3. Good purposes alone insufficient 222 Doct. 8. Turning from our evill wayes difficult 224 Reas. 1. They are pleasant Ibid. 2. Agreeable to nature 225 3. They are backed by the law of the members Ibid. Vse To make our labour answerable to the worke 229 Doct. 9. All sinnes forgiven to the humble that forsake sinne 254 Reas. 1. From the truth of God 256 2. From his goodnesse 257 Vse 1. To exclude wicked men from mercy 263 2. To trust perfectly in Gods mercy 267 3. Exhortation to be humbled 272 Doct. 10. All calamities from sin 279 Vse 1. To looke to the root of calamities 281 2. To see sin in its own colours 283 3. How to remove crosses 284 Doct. 11. If sinne be not removed as well as the crosse it is never removed in mercy 287 Reas. 1. Because sin is worse than any crosse 288 The Lord doth nothing in vaine Ibid. Vse By the issue of our afflictions to judge of our estate and Gods love to us Ibid. Doct. 12. Take away sin and the crosse will depart 290 Reas. 1. Because crosses come from sin 290 2. God never afflicts but for our profit 291 Vse To comfort us against our feares that the crosse will alway continue Ibid. The Contents of the second Treatise Doct. THere is a match betweene Christ and his Church 1 Vse 1. To apply Christ himselfe 6 2. To perswade men to take Christ. 23 Motives to it Ibid. Impediments 38 The Contents of the third Treatise Doct. EVery one that taketh Christ ought to be subject to him and it is best for him 76 Reas. 1. He is the head 78 He is a Saviour 80 Vse Exhortation to come to Christ. 82 Doct. Christ is the Head and Saviour of his Church and every member of it 90 Vse 1. To be obedient to Christ. 91 2. To choose Christ for our Head 93 3. To draw influence from him 95 4. How to know we are in Christ. 99 Trials of our subjection to Christ. 104 5. To be the glory of Christ. 133 6. To trie our condition 137 THE GOLDEN SCEPTER ● CHRON. 7. 14. If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seeke my face and turne from their wicked wayes then will I heare in heaven and will bee mercifull to their sin and will heale their land THese words containe the answer GOD gave to Salomons Prayer which hee made when hee dedicated the Temple His Prayer was that when they prayed on earth hee should heare in heaven And God promiseth in the words I have read to do all that Salomon asketh which promise containes three parts First That hee would heare in heaven which phrase notes out either his power that he is able to bring to passe what he assents to doe men are said to heare on earth because they can doe little but God in heaven or else it implies that though hee seemes to be farre off from his people yea though in heaven yet he will heare at last The Second part is that he will pardon their sins and it is of all other mercies the greatest for sin hinders all good things and openeth a gap to all evills and therefore David saith Blessed is the man whose sin is forgiven of all requests it is the greatest that wee can make and of all grants the greatest that God vouchsafeth Thirdly He will heale their land and remove their affliction Now observe the order of this in that before he doth it he pardons their sin Now this promise is farther set forth by two things First the persons to whom it is made the people of Israel and Iudah notified by two attributes First they are his people Secondly called by his name or on whom his name is called as the name of the husband is called upon the wife or of the fa ther upon the sonnes and as they in Antioch and we are called Christians from CHRIST Secondly the conditions this promise is made upon for it is the Lords manner to put promises upon conditions First if they bee humbled and humble themselves Secondly if that humiliation bee not contained within the compasse of their brests onely but expressed by prayer and confession of sins Thirdly if they seeke my face seeke to bee reconciled seeke his presence as separated from all things else not seeking Corne Wine Oyle but GOD himselfe Fourthly if they part with their sins in seeking for they cannot maintaine Communion with him else for God dwels in light and he who walkes in darkenesse can have no fellowship with him And thus you have the Analysis of the words wee in handling them will not use this method but begin with the words as they lye and will observe first these three Doctrines from these words If my people called by my Name FIrst God sends sharpe afflictions on his owne people this appeares by the Coherence for in the words before the text If I send plague c. then if my people c. Secondly that yet in them the Lord is very tender and full of compassion to his people this loving compellation my people argues as much it is as if he should say I cannot

sinne not If a man stand in awe of the Lord he would be afraid of every sin he would be afraid of vaine thoughts to bee vaine in his speeches and to give way to the least wickednesse afraid of every inordinate affection hee would be afraid how hee spent the time from morning till night and how to give an account thereof afraid of recreations least he should sleepe too much or sleepe too little eate too much or eate too little as knowing all is but to whet the sithe to make him the fitter for his harvest worke and therefore would be afraid to forbeare refreshments too-much or to use them too little I beseech you therefore that are in Covenant with the Lord and nearest to him that know your selves to bee within the Covenant to consider this and learne to feare And to helpe you in this take two places of Scripture 1 Pet. 1. 7. If you call on the Father who judgeth without respect of persons according to every mans worke passe the time of your sojourning here in feare that is seeing you have such a Father that judgeth every person all his children he will certainely afflict you if you offend him Therefore feare to do it The other is Heb. 12. 28 29 Let us serve him with all reverence and godly feare for even our God is a consuming fire our God whom we worship is not made all of mercy he hath other Attributes joyned with them to you he is a consuming fire If you will not serve him with feare though not immediately to consume you utterly yet to afflict you and thereby to consume your lusts so as it is a dangerous thing to be negligent of him to meddle with him who is a consuming fire How sharply did God deale with David who was yet nearer him than any of us first he tooke away the child from him which to him was a sharpe affliction he being a tender Father and had a strong affection to his life as appeares by his fastings and the like hee had to Absolon who yet was a Rebell against him and then to have almost all the people to fall from him when he was an old King to have Concubines abused so openly and the sword never to depart from his house all these sate close to him went neare his soule besides his shame to have his sin discovered to all the world as appeares by Psal. 51. Have not wee cause then to spend o●r time in feare if hee dealt thus with David and doe not say that though he dealt thus with David offending of him that yet he will not doe thus with me for is he not a Father that judgeth all his sonnes and that without respect of persons as the Apostle saith Consider also what he did to Iacob and Rebecca for consulting and agreeing to get the blessing by a lye for though the thing shee went about was good and they had a warrant for it and their end was good yet they used ill meanes a lye But GOD met with them both for it Iacob was therefore put to live twenty yeares from his Mothers house whereas he should have staid Gods leisure and not have beene too hasty for the accomplishment of that promise for he that believeth doth not make haste and so God promiseth riches and all good things to his children as much as they can desire but they must not make haste that is their fault and when he was comming home againe what a feare was hee put to from Esau that lye of his being the cause of their falling out and how did Rebecca also for all that while want the comfort of a sonne shee loved and had none to live with but Esau And so Moses was dearer to God than any man upon earth hee never spake with any face to face as with him yet he would have slaine him in the Inne for not circumcising his Child and also because of that other sin at the waters of Meriba he chuseth an affliction for him wherein he most of all crossed his desires denying him to goe into the Land of Canaan it may bee some small affliction in shew as this seemed to be which yet pincheth sorely and some great affliction on the contrary in bulke to others that is not so to him that beares it And thus he also deales with Eli a zealous man would any of us were so in these dayes for when newes was brought that his sonnes were dead and many of the people slaine he was not so much troubled at that as that the Arke of the Lord was taken and this amazed him so as that he fell backward and brake his necke you see the holinesse of the man yet because he had preferred his sonnes before the Lord did not governe them well God did not onely thus take away his life and of his sonnes but the Priesthood also from his house for ever and have not wee all cause to feare then How did hee deale with the good Prophet that was slaine by a Lion his fault that he beleeved another mans word pretending that he had Gods Word when hee had Gods Word expresly given to himselfe this sinne was as the sin of Eve who beleeved the Divels word when she had Gods Word expresly and therefore let us when we have the Word of the Lord sticke close to it And so however hee deale with Gideon a worthy man reckoned up among those worthies Heb. 11. yet when he made an Ephod see what judgement fel upon his children Iudg. 9. and all his house was cut off These examples are usefull for you to consider that you might know and feare the Lord and the want of this is the cause of this remissnesse and loosnesse in our profession and that we doe not so consider our waies Saint Paul was an holy man and one that stood in neere termes with Iesus Christ yet feared exceedingly 2 Cor. 5. Wee knowing the terrour of the Lord perswade men And Iob that was very exact in his life which appeares by the 31. Chap. which Chapter is nothing else but an expression of the manner of his carriage which was very exact verse 23. he gives this as a reason the punishments of the Lord were a terrour to me and so in the 2. verse the reason why he would not give liberty to his eys to looke on a Maid was for that hee considered what portion then shall I have with the Almighty and this feare of the Lord is needfull at this time when God hath discovered himselfe to be angry with the Land which is not onely for the grosse sinnes of wicked men but the sinnes of the Saints also It is your coldnesse remissenesse and laxitude I have two grounds for it first in the Revel 2. because Ephesus was fallen from her first love therefore he would remove her Candlesticke that is the whole Church among them carry them into Captivity for I cannot see by the Candlesticke how only the Ministery should be