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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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Yet take this in to explicate it, that notwithstanding 1a little swerving, a mans estate may be good: but it is continuing in it makes it a way. ⟨p. 206⟩For if you judge a man by a step or two, you will judge amiss of him; therefore I say, it must be a way of wickedness: the ground is, because a way of wickedness proceeds from the root, from the frame of the heart, which a man will return to again, be it good or bad; for howsoever a godly man may be transported for a time, yet he returns again to his former course. On the contrary, a wicked man may be hedged in for a piece of his way by education, so as he cannot go out: So Joash was hedged in by Jehoiada, and went strait on for many years; but consider what way you take when you come to the lanes end, when you are your own men, at your own choice.
Yet take this in to explicate it, that notwithstanding 1a little swerving, a mans estate may bee good: but it is continuing in it makes it a way. ⟨p. 206⟩For if you judge a man by a step or two, you will judge amisse of him; therefore I say, it must bee a way of wickednesse: the ground is, because a way of wickednesse proceeds from the roote, from the frame of the heart, which a man will returne to againe, be it good or bad; for howsoever a godly man may be transported for a time, yet he returnes againe to his former course. On the contrary, a wicked man may bee hedged in for a piece of his way by education, so as hee cannot goe out: So Ioash was hedged in by Iehoiada, and went strait on for many yeares; but consider what way you take when you come to the lanes end, when you are your owne men, at your owne choice.
- 1Good men may swerve