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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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The want of degrees here alters the kind, as in ⟨p. 211⟩1numbers the addition of a degree alters the species and kind.
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This law of the mind, puts a lusting into the 1soul against that which is evil and to that which is good, Gal. 5. 17. So as he is not only stirred up 2to his duty by conscience, but he hath an inward inclination also thereunto; and so for sin, this law doth put a strong inclination into the faculties, which doth not only repress the outward acts, but it weakens the habits of sin by a contrary ingredient: but the light of conscience, though it may weaken the act, yet not the habit, So