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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. › Doctrine 7THE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine 7
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Thirdly, for the manner of turning, as it is expressed 1in Scripture, you must turn to the Lord with all your heart, and all your soul; though it be not expressed here, yet it is to be understood, If my people turn from their evil ways with their whole hearts.
Thirdly, for the manner of turning, as it is exprest 1in Scripture, you must turne to the Lord with all your heart, and all your soule; though it be not exprest here, yet it is to be understood, If my people turne from their evill waies with their whole hearts.
- 13 The manner of turning.
But what is this turning with a mans whole 1heart?
- 1Quest.
A man is then said to turn with his whole heart, 1when he is fully enlightened and convinced in his understanding of the evil of a thing, and thereupon doth take a full resolution to forsake it: As if a man be going out of the way, and another man ⟨p. 192⟩come and tell him he is not in the right way, which will lead him to his journeys end; if he be fully persuaded of this, he will return, and that with all his heart, as we use to say, when we do a thing willingly: So it is here, if a man be fully persuaded that sin is the cause of all misery, and God of happiness, he turns to GOD with his whole heart. Now unless it be with the whole heart, this turning is but feigned; as appears by that in