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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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4 Consider whether thy resistance be not only against the gross act, and not against the least• inctures, the fringes and borders of sin, that do compass the act. These are of the same kind with the act, though not of the same degrees: thou resistest it may be the greater acts, but admittest the lesser, some dalliance with it.
4 Consider whether thy resistance be not only against the grosse act, and not against the least• inctures, the fringes and borders of sin, that doe compasse the act. These are of the same kinde with the act, though not of the same degrees: thou resistest it may be the greater acts, but admittest the lesser, some dalliance with it.
As the drunkard it may be resolves to run no more into excess, yet he will sit with his old companions, and be sipping, till sometimes he is overtaken. Balaam will go with them, but not speak a word but what the Lord shall put into his mouth.
As the drunkard it may be resolves to runne no more into excesse, yet he will sit with his old companions, and be sipping, till sometimes he is overtaken. Balaam will go with them, but not speake a word but what the Lord shall put into his mouth.
The Levite would not stay all day, but yet he would be entreated to stay and eat his break-fast, and so to stay dinner, and so to stay all night. Thus dalliance brings on adultery, and lesser sins greater; as a little thief let in at a window lets in the greater. If therefore you fail thus in your resistance, the promise is not made to you. Tis true, it is said, resist the Devil, and he will fly from you; but the resistance must be right, and not such as hath been spoken, and that is the first answer.