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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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First thinking thou hast not the victory when thou hast it; for example, when thou findest the sin striven against, b•s•ing and lusting more than at other times, thou therefore concludest, thou hast not nor shalt not get the victory; when as now sin is dying and on the loosing hand; (as on the contrary, when thou thinkest all at peace, thou mayest be farthest off the victory.) Consider with thy self, doth any man but a regenerate man complain so bitterly as the Apostle doth, Rom. 7. the good that I would do, that I do not, or as the same Apostle complains, 2 Corinth. 12. of the thorn in the flesh? do you think that any but a sound hearted man, can come as he did with tears to Christ, that cried out so to him, Lord help my unbelief? can any but a broken heart pray so earnestly as David, Psal. 51. 10. for a new and a clean heart? This deep sense of sin, is an argument of our victory over it.
First thinking thou hast not the victory when thou hast it; for example, when thou findest the sinne striven against, b•s•ing and lusting more than at other times, thou therefore concludest, thou hast not nor shalt not get the victory; when as now sin is dying and on the loosing hand; (as on the contrary, when thou thinkest all at peace, thou mayest be farthest off the victory.) Consider with thy selfe, doth any man but a regenerate man complaine so bitterly as the Apostle doth, Rom. 7. the good that I would do, that I do not, or as the same Apostle complaines, 2 Corinth. 12. of the thorne in the flesh? doe you thinke that any but a sound hearted man, can come as he did with teares to Christ, that cryed out so to him, Lord helpe my unbeliefe? can any but a broken heart pray so earnestly as David, Psal. 51. 10. for a new and a cleane heart? This deepe sense of sin, is an argument of our victory over it.