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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.
It is true, that there is something in thee, the flesh 1to which sin is as suitable as ever it was: hence the aptness to entertain it, that is ready to become as friendly to it as ever it was. Yet again the frame is such, as there is something in thee, namely a new creature, a new self, thy regenerate part, that hates sin with a deadly hatred, yea and the flesh also which fosters it. So then this may be thy comfort that the spirit that is in thee hates sin, at the same time, that the flesh which is in thee delights in it.
It is true, that there is something in thee, the flesh 1to which sinne is as suitable as ever it was: hence the aptnes to entertain it, that is ready to become as friendly to it as ever it was. Yet againe the frame is such, as there is something in thee, namely a new creature, a new selfe, thy regenerate part, that hates sinne with a deadly hatred, yea and the flesh also which fosters it. So then this may be thy comfort that the spirit that is in thee hates sinne, at the same time, that the flesh which is in thee delights in it.
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If this turning unto the Lord be a condition on 1which all the promises are put; then it stands you upon to examine your selves, whether any way of wickedness be found in you; if it be, be it greater or smaller, then you are not converted, you are still in the bond of iniquity (it is the Apostles phrase to Simon Magus; Acts) that is, tied up in it as in a bond, shackled in it, as a man still in prison and bound in fetters; thou art a fettered bond slave: For when there is▪ any way of wickedness in thee, it so binds the soul, that a man is not able to run the ways of Gods Commandments. Look back therefore upon thy former ways, search thy heart as throughly and narrowly as they did for the leaven before the Passover; search as it were for thy life, because if there be a way of wickedness, it