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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.
The upright in heart fights against sin with the 1whole frame of his heart. All the faculties fight in their courses, as it is said, the Stars did against Sisera, as first the mind, there is a [Greek or Hebrew], […] change of mind, in him: he hath another opinion of his sin. There 2is a change in judgement, he is renewed in his mind. Let a mans opinion be kept right, and how ever his passion may stir, they will in the end vanish. Whilst a man is unregenerate, he is as Colos. 1. 21. 3[Greek or Hebrew] an enemy in his thoughts or reasonings, as the word translated in their minds properly signifies; but you hath he reconciled; and so after conversion a man is a friend in his understanding to the ways of God, he is in his judgement reconciled to them, and become therein an enemy to the ways of sin. The question here is not, whether thou thinkest sin evil or no, or this and that unlawful, but whether evil to thee, pro hic & nunc, at this 4and that time, in these and these circumstances; and then comes in conscience also, and that fights against sin, which is tender and feareth always. Prov. 28. 14. Whereas he that hardeneth his heart falls 5into mischief, and it is that place of conscience is it which is only culpable of this hardness and tenderness. He dares as well venture upon a Canons mouth as commit a sin; and though he may sometimes be transported for a time, yet conscience 6fights against it. Then for the will, that fights against sin also, whilst with David he hath sworn to keep those righteous judgements, that is, hath fixedly ⟨p. 216⟩resolved against it. Lastly he resists sin in his aff•ctions,