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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.
The Scripture you know is evident in this, A good tree bringeth forth good fruit, Matth. 7.1 that is, it cannot be that a m•n shall have a new heart, ⟨p. 187⟩it cannot be that a man should be regenerate, but that his works will be also new; look how far the heart of any man is holy, look how far his heart is put into a new frame of grace, in that measure his works will be good, and his life sanctified. In Acts 14.22.2 speaking of David, I have found a man after m•ne own heart, who will do whatsoever I will: and in Mat. 23.26.3 Make the inside clean that the outside may be clean also: As if he should say, if the inside be right, if the heart be set right within, if that be well moulded, the outside will be clean, they cannot be disjoined.
The Scripture you know is evident in this, A good tree bringeth forth good fruite, Matth. 7.1 that is, it cannot be that a m•n shall have a new heart, ⟨p. 187⟩it cannot be that a man should be regenerate, but that his workes will be also new; looke how farre the heart of any man is holy, looke how farre his heart is put into a new frame of grace, in that measure his workes will be good, and his life sanctified. In Acts 14.22.