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The Golden Scepter 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 various sermons in Cambridge, for the weekly fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincoln's Inn. By the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinity, Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometime Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

Psalm 45:6. Your throne, O GOD, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.

Jeremiah 3:14. Return, O backsliding children, for I am married to you.

Hosea 2:7. I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

London, printed by R. Badger for N. Bourne at the Royal Exchange, and R. Harford at the gilt Bible in Queen's Head Alley in Paternoster Row, and by F. Eglesfield at the Marigold in Paul's Churchyard. 1638.