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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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Though thy affections be not so stirred, consider 1the promises are made to ones coming in, and taking Christ, and believing in him: they are not made to the commotion of the affections: and here in the words the promise is made to, humbling thy self out of a solidity of Judgement. It is no matter by what means you are brought to take hold on Christ, so you come to him. It is all one whether I come to my journeys end by land, or by water, on horse back or on foot, so I be come thither.
Though thy affections be not so stirred, consider 1the promises are made to ones comming in, and taking Christ, and beleeving in him: they are not made to the commotion of the affections: and here in the words the promise is made to, humbling thy selfe out of a solidity of Iudgement. It is no matter by what meanes you are brought to take hold on Christ, so you come to him. It is all one whether I come to my journeys end by land, or by water, on horse backe or on foote, so I bee come thither.
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If thou findest thou doest the things that an humble man should do, then though thy affections seem not to be moved, yet in very deed they are moved and changed: as if thou art fearful to return ⟨p. 120⟩to thy sins, art resolved to please God in all things to thy power. For what are affections, but divers positions and situations of the will and 1the feet it walks upon? they are but the divers motions and inclinations whereby the will shoots it self into the objects of it. Now look which way thy will is resolved, and set: that way are thy affections set also: if thou seest one ro rise up soon and go to bed late, to avoid poverty, and to get riches, a wise man will assure himself that his