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The golden sceptre held forth to the humble With the Churches dignityThe golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie
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
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.
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.
Because it discovers it selfe (though it be seated 1in the whole man) and is most operative in the sensuall part, as on the contrary the law of the minde is most exercised in the superior part, though it sanctifies the whole man. The meaning is this, it appeares in the faculties of the minde, 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 palsie, it lyes undiscerned in the hand; but when he comes to use it, he findes it; so the gout, or sorenesse or lamenesse in the leg, though it be there, yet it is most discerned when a man goes to walke: such a lamenesse or difficulty in our faculties appeares, when we goe about any thing that is good.
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In the last place, this law of the members is said to rebel against the law of the mind; and if we will consider its forces in this war, we shall find it difficult to resist and turn from them.
In the last place, this law of the members is said to rebell against the law of the mind; and if we will consider its forces in this warre, we shall find it difficult to resist and turne from them.