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The Breastplate of Faith and Love
The breast-plate of faith and love. A treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good works, is explained. / Delivered in 18 sermons upon three several texts, by the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, Master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.The breast-plate of faith and love. A treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good workes, is explained. / Delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by W. Jones for Nicolas Bourne, 1630London: printed by W. Iones for Nicolas Bourne, 1630
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In a word, go through any such thing, wherein God and thy lusts, thy pleasure or thy profits come in competition, when thou shalt in thy ordinary course be ready to prefer that before him, thou lovest that before him, thou lovest that before the Lord; and though thou think that thou lovest God, yet notwithstanding know this, that that is not sufficient, thou must love him above all.
In a word, goe through any such thing, wherein God and thy lusts, thy pleasure or thy profits come in competition, when thou shalt in thy ordinary course be ready to preferre that before him, thou lovest that before him, thou lovest that before the Lord; and though thou thinke that thou lovest God, yet notwithstanding know this, that that is not sufficient, thou must loue him aboue all.
1And if you say, who is able to perform this? who is it that doth not at some times prefer his pleasures and profits before the obedience to a command?
1And if you say, who is able to performe this? who is it that doth not at some times preferre his pleasures and profits before the obedience to a command?
- 1Quest.
1I answer, it is a thing that hath been done and is done by all the Saints: Therefore if you look into