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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. › DoctrineTHE GOLDEN SCEPTER. › Doctrine
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As also that it is called the law of the members, argues as much: for it is so called,
First, because it inclines not in a moral manner only, as when a man is persuaded by reason or motives to do any thing that is evil, but because it inclines us Physically, as nature inclines us to meat and drink. A law so radicated in the soul, if it inclines by way of nature, as plummets ⟨p. 227⟩hang upon wheels, and makes them go as we say, whether they will or no; and reason may be put off and denied, but not a strong inclination of nature, that will not be got off so easily.
First, because it inclines not in a morall manner onely, as when a man is perswaded by reason or motives to doe any thing that is evill, but because it inclines us Physically, as nature enclines us to meate and drinke. A law so radicated in the soule, if it inclines by way of nature, as plummets ⟨p. 227⟩hang upon wheeles, and makes them goe as we say, whether they will or no; and reason may be put off and denyed, but not a strong inclination of nature, that will not be got off so easily.
Because it discovers it self (though it be seated 1in the whole man) and is most operative in the sensual part, as on the contrary the law of the mind is most exercised in the superior part, though it sanctifies the whole man. The meaning is this, it appears in the faculties of the mind, when they are set about any action that is good, and in the relation is called the law of the members, because it is discerned in the use of the members, as a man that hath the palsy, it lies undiscerned in the hand; but when he comes to use it, he finds it; so the gout, or soreness or lameness in the leg, though it be there, yet it is most discerned when a man goes to walk: such a lameness or difficulty in our faculties appears, when we go about any thing that is good.