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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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2 There is a great difference in the ground and principle of a godly mans abandoning sin, and obeying 1the Law, from that which is in an unregenerate man, that is not truly turned, though he may go far in both; for the upright hearted man hath not only some present checks, and transient resolutions to leave sin, but there is a law stamped upon his mind, whereby to resist the law of sin, for ever this law the other wants. Rom. 7. 23. I see a law in my members, warring against the law of my mind. 2To a man truly converted there is a double law; the outward written in Scripture, the inward printed in his heart, which is able to guide him: Therefore says the Apostle, 1 Tim. 1. 8. The law was not given for the righteous, that is, it is not given to him, as to 3others; for others having no law in them, must therefore be pressed only with that without, but it is (as it were needles to the other) he hath one in his mind continually, opposing the law of sin.
2 There is a great difference in the ground and principle of a godly mans abandoning sinne, and obeying 1the Law, from that which is in an unregenerate man, that is not truly turned, though he may go farre in both; for the upright hearted man hath not only some present checks, and transient resolutions to leave sinne, but there is a law stamped upon his mind, whereby to resist the law of sinne, for ever this law the other wants. Rom. 7. 23. I see a law in my members, warring against the law of my minde. 2To a man truly converted there is a double law; the outward written in Scripture, the inward prin•ed in his heart, which is able to guide him: Therefore sayes the Apostle,