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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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If you would come to lay your sins to heart, and 1be affected with them; then be sure you be not kept off by those false reasoning; and excuses, which hinder men from being humbled, and keep their sins from coming in upon them: as for instance; when a man comes to consider of his sins, I but says he, am I not in a good estate already? and then my sins are pardoned; for I have good desires in me and a good meaning, I mean no man no harm; and thus these keep him from seeing himself a child of wrath: but consider, that thou mayst have all these good things in thee, and more than these, and yet be a child of wrath; these will be found to the praise of the Holy Ghost who wrought them in thee, but not to thy advantage to escape damnation; for though these be in thee, yet they have not that full effect they should, for they overcome not that evil that is in thee: for notwithstanding all these good things thou art still a Sabbath profaner, a drunkard given to company. I might go over all other sins; but in a word; if they overcome not every sin, they are nothing for the saving thee; if they had been effectual in thee, they would have driven out the darkness; all the good things thou ⟨p. 108⟩hast avail not to thy salvation; because they make thee not a good man; yea all these good things and the good fits thou hast had, will help forward thy condemnation: because thou hast profaned the truth in thy heart, and hast not put fuel to these 2sparks, which God in mercy did put in: that thou shouldest suffer such Talents as these to lie hid in a Napkin, will he not say, thou art an unprofitable servant?
If you would come to lay your sins to heart, and 1be affected with them; then be sure you be not kept off by those false reasoning; and excuses, which hinder men from being humbled, and keepe their sins from comming in upon them: as for instance; when a man comes to consider of his sinnes, I but sayes he, am I not in a good estate already? and then my sinnes are pardoned; for I have good desires in me and a good meaning, I meane no man no harme; and thus these keepe him from seeing himselfe a child of wrath: but consider, that thou mayst have all these good things in thee, and more than these, and yet be a child of wrath; these will be found to the praise of the Holy Ghost who wrought them in thee, but not to thy advantage to escape damnation; for though these be in thee, yet they have not that full effect they should, for they overcome not that evill that is in thee: for notwithstanding all these good things thou art still a Sabbath profaner, a drunkard given to company. I might goe over all other sins; but in a word; if they overcome not every sin, they are nothing for the saving thee; if they had beene effectuall in thee, they would have driven out the darknesse; all the good things thou