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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.
Yes,1 my beloved, therefore you must understand it thus, that comparatively you may reach it; all those that are sanctified do love him above all, although there be many degrees of love you cannot reach unto, yet you love him above all: Even as it is in marriage, a man may love his wife with such a degree of Jove as is meet for her, yet there may be a greater degree of love, continuance of time may increase that love upon further knowledge, &c. So we may love the Lord above all, and yet come short of that degree that we may have after longer communion, and greater familiarity. So much for this third condition,4 to love him above all.
Yes,1 my beloved, therefore you must understand it thus, that comparatively you may reach it; all those that are sanctified doe love him above all, although there be many degrees of love you cannot reach unto, yet you love him above all: Even as it is in marriage, a man may love his wife with such a degree of Iove as is meete for her, yet there may be a greater degree of loue, continuance of time may increase that love upon further knowledge, &c. So wee may love the Lord above all, and yet come short of that degree that we may have after longer communion, and greater familiarity. So much for this third condition,4 to love him above all.
- 1Answ.
- 4Requisite, to be rooted and grounded in love.
But yet this is not enough, we find another condition required in this love in the Eph: