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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Therein then is the difference between the relapse 1and backsliding of the wicked, and the falling of the godly into some sin. A Saint never gives over the war, he never enters into league with sin. The spirit lusteth against the flesh, Gal. 5. that is, will be 2ever stirring him up against it: all the world cannot make peace, where GOD hath put enmity: Thou wilt never come to say, I cannot choose, I must needs yield to it: but thou wilt never give over; for that is the property of one truly converted, to look on sin as an enemy, and whatsoever helps him against sin, he accounts his friend, as admonitions ⟨p. 197⟩and reproofs, and whatsoever helps sin against him he accounts his enemy.
Therein then is the difference betweene the relapse 1and backsliding of the wicked, and the falling of the godly into some sinne. A Saint never gives over the warre, he never enters into league with sin. The spirit lusteth against the flesh, Gal. 5. that is, will be 2ever stirring him up against it: all the world cannot make peace, where GOD hath put enmity: Thou wilt never come to say, I cannot chuse, I must needs yeeld to it: but thou wilt never give over; for that is the property of one truly converted, to look on sin as an enemy, and whatsoever helpes him against sinne, he accounts his friend, as admonitions ⟨p. 197⟩and reproofes, and whatsoever helpes sinne against him hee accounts his enemy.
- 1Difference of relapses of the godly and others.
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