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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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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.
The Levite would not stay all day, but yet he would be entreated to stay and eate 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 thiefe let in at a window lets in the greater. If therefore you faile thus in your resistance, the promise is not made to you. Tis true, it is said, resist the Divell, and he will fly from you; but the resistance must be right, and not such as hath beene spoken, and that is the first answer.
As you may be deceived in your striving against 1sin, so also about the victory, and that on both sides: both by thinking you have the victory when ⟨p. 238⟩you have it not, and (2) by thinking thou hast it not when thou hast it.
As you may be deceived in your striving against 1sinne, so also about the victory, and that on both sides: both by thinking you have the victory when ⟨p. 238⟩you have it not, and (2) by thinking thou hast it not when thou hast it.
- 1Ans. 2. Trial of our victory over sin.