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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.
1I answer, it is a thing that hath been done and is done by all the Saints: Therefore if you look into Deut. 30.6. saith the Lord,2 I will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, and thou shalt love me with all thy heart: He speaks it there of ⟨p. 169⟩a thing that is acted indeed, of a thing that is to be done by those that are regenerate, I will circumcise you, and then you shall do it. And, my brethren, a man that hath the least measure of grace, if he be once in Christ, he loves God above all; that is, let a man be himself at any time, let not his lusts get the upper ground of him, as sometimes it doth, when he is in passion and transported; indeed then fear may prevail as it did with Peter, and lusts may prevail as it did with David: But the meaning is, let a man be himself in his ordinary course, and still he prefers the Lord before any thing in all his actions.
1I answer, it is a thing that hath beene done and is done by all the Saints: Therefore if you looke into Deut. 30.6. saith the Lord,2 I will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seede, and thou shalt love me with all thy heart: He speakes it there of ⟨p. 169⟩a thing that is acted indeede, of a thing that is to be done by those that are regenerate, I will circumcise you, and then you shall doe it. And, my brethren, a man that hath the least measure of grace, if he be once in Christ, hee loves God above all; that is, let a man be himselfe at any time, let not his lusts get the upper ground of him, as sometimes it doth, when hee is in passion and transported; indeede then feare may prevaile as it did with Peter, and lusts may prevaile as it did with David: But the meaning is, let a man be himselfe in his ordinary course, and still hee preferres the Lord before any thing in all his actions.