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The golden sceptre 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 sundry sermons in Cambridge, for the weekly fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincolns Inn. By the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty, Mr. of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometime preacher at Lincolns Inn.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.
London: printed by R. Badger for N. Bourne, 1638
THE GOLDEN SCEPTRE. › Doctrine 4THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 4
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The first ariseth but from self-love, and is but a work of nature; though thus far a work of God to stir up self-love, by the sense of misery and to awaken it; but so as any unreasonable creature if in danger, useth to be sensible of it: and what wonder then is it for a man, when he begins to have some sense of hell and death, let into his conscience, to be wounded and apprehensive of it! but the other ariseth from the love of God kindled in the heart by hope of grace and mercy.
The first ariseth but from selfe-love, and is but a worke of nature; though thus farre a worke of God to stirre up self-love, by the sence of misery and to awaken it; but so as any unreasonable creature if in danger, useth to be sensible of it: and what wonder then is it for a man, when hee begins to have some sence of hel and death, let into his conscience, to be wounded and apprehensive of it! but the other ariseth from the love of God kindled in the heart by hope of grace and mercy.
They differ in the instrumental causes that work them; the one is wrought by the spirit of bondage, ⟨p. 85⟩1by an enlightening merely to see his bondage, and the soul is as one that is in bondage fearing God as a master; and he hath no further light than thus to see God as a Judge: but this other is wrought by the spirit of adoption making the Gospel also effectual, discovering God as a father.
They differ in the instrumental causes that work them; the one is wrought by the spirit of bondage, ⟨p. 85⟩1by an enlightning meerly to see his bondage, and the soule is as one that is in bondage fearing God as a master; and he hath no further light than thus to see God as a Judge: but this other is wrought by the spirit of adoption making the Gospell also effectuall, discovering God as a father.