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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. › DoctrineTHE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine
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1. That they cannot mourn for their sins. 2 That they fall into the same sins again and again, and that therefore they have not humbled themselves. Now as we would not have the false deceived with false evidences, so nor the true discomforted, and therefore we will answer these objections. To the first,
1. That they cannot mourne for their sins. 2 That they fall into the same sinnes againe and againe, and that therefore they have not humbled themselves. Now as we would not have the false deceived with false evidences, so nor the true discomforted, and therefore wee will answer these objections. To the first,
If thou beest so far convinced in thy Judgement of thy sin, and misery, and unability to help 1thy self, as it hath turned the bent and rudder of thy will, so as thou sayest, I will go and humble my self to my Father, change my course, confess and forsake my sins; though thy affections seem to thee not stirred, yet this is enough to translate thee into the estate of grace: for I ask, to what end is mourning and weeping required, but to awaken a ⟨p. 119⟩man, to come home to God, in this manner mentioned? when therefore thou findest these effects, thou mayest be sure thou hast the end of these, and that is enough to save thee. Suppose a man carries about him a deadly disease, so as upon the discovery, and knowledge of it he is content to part with all he hath to the Physicians, and is wary of meddling 2with any meat that will hurt him and increase it; if he know this that it is deadly, though he hath no sense of pain, it is all one, (and there are some diseases you know, wherein a man feels not so much pain, that yet are mortal) it may make him as careful to use the means: and so is it here; if the conviction of the sinfulness and deadliness of sin work those dispositions mentioned in thee, then thou hast the end which mourning tends to, and that is all one.