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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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But then another question comes to be answered, 1how these two should likewise stand together; to seek the preservation of a mans self, and yet to expose himself to destruction, as Moses and Saint Paul did.
But then another question comes to be answered, 1how these two should likewise stand together; to seeke the preservation of a mans selfe, and yet to expose himselfe to destruction, as Moses and Saint Paul did.
- 1Quest.
For answer, you must know, that in every regenerate 1man there are two selves.
- 1Answ. Two selves in the regenerate.
That common nature, that is in every man (in which the principle is rooted, to love a mans self) hath two biasses; the one Spirit which leads to God, the other flesh: and these two in this common nature makes two several selves. By the first a man is carried to seek the Lord, by the other to seek 1himself immediately and in the first place; and these two are reckoned two several selves in Scripture, and so expressed to us: first, flesh and corruption is called a mans self,