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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
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But yet this is not enough, we find another condition required in this love in the Eph: 13.17. ⟨p. 170⟩That ye be rooted and grounded in love, that is, that as ye must not love the Lord by halves, so ye must not love him by fits and by starts, it must be a fixed love, a permanent love, you must be rooted and grounded in it, otherwise as it is said of him that is unstable in the faith, as Jam. 1.12.2 He is as a wave of the Sea, tossed too and fro, the same may be said of him that wavers in his love, he is tossed too & fro, that is some times he cometh with great purposes, with abundance of promises and resolutions, that seem as big as mountains, but stay a while and they come to nothing, they vanish away. Suppose it were thy own case, that a man should come to thee, with an expression of as much love, as that there could be no more for a day or two, but presently afterward, he is as strange as if he had never seen thee, wouldest thou regard such a love as this? No surely, but as we use to do with frantic men, though that they be sober for a while, yet we reckon them frantic, because they are more constantly frantic, such account doth the Lord make of such, as do love him by fits and by flashes.
But yet this is not enough, we finde another condition required in this love in the Eph: 13.17. ⟨p. 170⟩That ye be rooted and grounded in love, that is, that as ye must not love the Lord by halues, so ye must not love him by fits and by starts, it must be a fixed love, a permanent love, you must bee rooted and grounded in it, otherwise as it is said of him that is unstabe in the faith, as Iam. 1.12.2 He is as a wave of the Sea, tossed too and froe, the same may be said of him that wavers in his love, he is tossed too & fro, that is some times he commeth with great purposes, with aboundance of promises and resolutions, that seeme as bigg as mountaines, but stay a while and they come to nothing, they vanish away. Suppose it were thy owne case, that a man should come to thee, with an expression of as much love, as that there could be no more for a day or two, but presently afterward, he is as strange as if he had never seene thee, wouldest thou regard such a loue as this? No surely, but as wee use to doe with franticke men, though that they be sober for a while, yet we reckon them franticke, because they are more constantly franticke, such account doth the Lord make of such, as doe love him by fitts and by flashes.