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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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Answer: tis true, that which is once done can 1never be undone. All the acts remain as things once done, so as it may be said, they were committed, and were thus heinous; when therefore it is said, there shall be none, the meaning is, they shall be of no efficacy, they shall never be able to do you hurt, as our Saviour said to his Disciples, Luk. 10. 19 2You shall tread upon Serpents and Scorpions, and they shall not hurt you, so I may say of sin, it shall not hurt you, because the sting is taken away in and by Christ; or as that fire in Nebuchadnezzars furnace, it had power enough to burn others, but not so much as to singe an hair of the three children, because Christ was with them; so those sins which would sting and shall sting others to death, because of their impenitence, yet shall do thee no hurt, but fall off like the Viper off from Saint Pauls hands, but not hurt thee. It is an opinion of some, that GOD can see no sin in his children, because, they say there are none (when a man is once in Christ) son to be seen: But that is not the meaning of that saying, God sees no iniquity in Jacob: they are there, but as in a debt-book crossed and cancelled though the lines be drawn over, yet the sums may be read, yet so as they cannot be enacted, or sued for, because they are crossed and cancelled. A falling star loseth its light by little and little, and when it comes to the earth, it goes quite out: so when sins ⟨p. 272⟩begin to fall from their proper element and Sphere, that is an unregenerate heart, where they had dominion and reigned and moved as in their Orb, the light and influence of it decays, and shall at length both in the guilt and power of it wholly vanish.
Answer: tis true, that which is once done can 1never bee undone. All the acts remaine as things once done, so as it may be said, they were committed, and were thus hainous; when therefore it is said, there shall be none, the meaning is, they shall be of no efficacy, they shall never bee able to doe you hurt, as our Saviour said to his Disciples,