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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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But how shall that be done? Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth, that is, when they shall pass through this world full of evil and corruption, the way to preserve them spotless and untainted is, to have the heart sanctified. When the heart is well oiled with grace, the dirt of the world falls off▪ This is an antidote against corruption. Though in your passage, you meet with much bad air and infection, this will preserve you. But then how should we be sanctified? By truth: The more ⟨p. 247⟩truth you get into your hearts, the more grace. Grace and Truth goes together, 1 John, and came 1by CHRIST, who is full of both. Therefore 2 Pet. 3. ult. these two are joined, grow in grace, and 2in the knowledge of Christ. By truth: but what truth? thy word is truth. Every truth is not fit to sanctify, as all water will not take soap to scour, the word is that truth that doth it. Moral truths may do many things in the soul, they may adorn it, but they cannot heal or purify it. Wash in Jordan, saith the Prophet to leprous Naaman. There is a special virtue in this Jordan to heal thee of thy seprofie, that is not in the waters of Damascus. You came not to the word as to a lecture of Philosophy, but as to that which works wonders: the power of God goes with it. For withal mark this, that it is not the word of it self that doth it; it doth not work as Physic that hath a virtue in it of its own, but the LORD doth it by the word; and therefore CHRIST prays to his father to sanctify them by the word. As a man writes a letter by a pen, so the Lord sanctifies by the word. To consecrate the heart to GOD is to sanctify it; and divine truths alone do consecrate the heart to God, and no other. Let us therefore get much grace and truth into our hearts, assurance of justification and joy in the Holy Ghost, that by tasting of better the heart may be taken off from the pleasures of sinful ways; sound joy will swallow up all other joys, the joys of sin.
But how shal that be done? Sanctifie them through thy truth, thy word is truth, that is, when they shall passe through this world full of evill and corruption, the way to preserve them spotlesse and untainted is, to have the heart sanctified. When the heart is well oyled with grace, the dirt of the world falls off This is an antidote against corruption. Though in your passage, you meete with much bad aire and infection, this will preserve you. But then how should wee bee sanctified? By truth: The more