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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 Rule is not simply to go about to resist a sin, 1and to turn from the evil of our ways, but to fill the heart with something that is better; for when lusts are mortified, the stream of our affections are not dried up, but diverted; and therefore the way is not to go about to stop the current of a sinful lust, but to turn thy heart into another channel, set thy heart upon something that is better: Take a crabtree stock that is sower or bitter, the only way to sweeten it, is to put in a graft of another nature, which will change it, and by little and little sweeten the constitution of it.
4 Rule is not simply to goe about to resist a sin, 1and to turne from the evil of our ways, but to fil the heart with something that is better; for when lusts are mortified, the streame of our affections are not dryed up, but diverted; and therefore the way is not to goe about to stop the current of a sinfull lust, but to turne thy heart into another channell, set thy heart upon something that is better: Take a crabtree stocke that is sower or bitter, the onely way to sweeten it, is to put in a graft of another nature, which wil change it, and by little and little sweeten the constitution of it.
- 1Rule 4.
But you will say, what is to be put in?1
- 1Quest. Answ.