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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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For answer to this, look to that place Mat. 6. 122. 23. The light of the body is the eye; if therefore the eye be single, the whole body shall be full of light. It is a single eye, which looks on a single subject, upon one object only; and therefore then a man is said to have a single eye, when he looks upon the Lord alone, when nothing else is made his God; he looks not on riches, nor nothing else as his God: and then all the body is light, that is, all the conversation is good, and he sees whither he goes; but if the eye be evil, that is, by the rule of opposition, if it be double; (for that is a rule of interpreting Scripture to open the meaning of phrases by what is opposed to them,) A double eye is a wicked eye, that is, if it be partly set upon GOD, partly on a mans self, it is wicked. And so Saint James hath it, he calls such an one a double minded man, who is unstable in all his ways. When a man hath partly ⟨p. 162⟩an eye to the world and himself, partly to GOD, he is as one distracted between two ways; he knows not which to take, he is unstable like a drunken man that staggers in all he doth, being now on one side, now for GOD: and now on another side, for himself: and so his whole body is dark, that is, his whole conversation is wicked, as being out of his way; he sees not a right path to walk in, he hath not a right scope whither he should tend, he is not able to see a right object, but goes hither and thither from one thing to another, is unstable in all his ways.
For answer to this, looke to that place Mat. 6. 122. 23. The light of the body is the eye; if therefore the eye bee single, the whole body shall be full of light. It is a single eye, which lookes on a single subject, upon one object onely; and therefore then a man is said to have a single eye, when he lookes upon the Lord alone, when nothing else is made his God; hee lookes not on riches, nor nothing else as his God: and then all the body is light, that is, all the conversation is good, and hee sees whither hee goes; but if the eye be evill, that is, by the rule of opposition, if it bee double; (for that is a rule of interpreting Scripture to open the meaning of phrases by what is opposed to them,) A double eye is a wicked eye, that is, if it bee partly set upon GOD, partly on a mans selfe, it is wicked. And so Saint Iames hath it, hee calls such an one a double minded man, who is unstable in all his wayes. When a man hath partly