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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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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, 2 Cor. 4. 5. we preach not our selves, but Christ, that is, for our own glory, which he calls himself, because men use to reckon 2it as themselves. So 2 Cor. 12. 2, 5. I knew a man in Christ, &c. caught up into the third heavens; of 3such an one I will glory, but of my self I will not glory; by self, he means either the corruption which was in him, but there was something else in him, which he reckons as another man from this self, a man in Christ, of such a man I will rejoice, that is, of my regenerate part, which is a New Creature in Christ, but not of my self, that is, my flesh and corruptions I will not rejoice, or of the regenerate self neither, as of it self, but as it is in Christ, ⟨p. 149⟩which is another expression, and this corruption is called a mans self, because it is spread over the whole man, as the form through the whole matter, and a man will not part with it, but fights against every thing, fights against it as if it were himself.
That common nature, that is in every man (in which the principle is rooted, to love a mans selfe) hath two binsses; the one Spirit which leades to God, the other flesh: and these two in this common nature makes two severall selves. By the first a man is carried to seeke the Lord, by the other to seeke 1himselfe immediately and in the first place; and these two are reckoned two severall selves in Scripture, and so expressed to us: first, flesh and corruption is called a mans selfe,