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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.
To suffer imprisonment and disgraces for good causes,1 this is a good work, for it is a great work to suffer, and in that you do the will of the Lord.2 When a man is sick, and lieth in his chamber upon his bed, sick of a consumption or a fever, that he is not able to stir; yet to do this with obedience, to submit then to the will of the Lord, is a good work: for to bear a burden is a work, to bear sickness and calamity after this manner, is a work, to think the Lord hath put me into this condition; he might have given me strength to go abroad as others do, but he hath laid sickness upon me, I say the right bearing this burden is a good work.
To suffer imprisonment and disgraces for good causes,1 this is a good worke, for it is a great worke to suffer, and in that you doe the will of the Lord.2 When a man is sicke, and lieth in his chamber upon his bedde, sicke of a consumption or a feaver, that he is not able to stirre; yet to doe this with obedience, to submit then to the will of the Lord, is a good worke: for to beare a burden is a worke, to beare sicknesse and calamity after this manner, is a worke, to thinke the Lord hath put me into this condition; he might have given mee strength to goe abroad as others doe, but he hath laid sicknesse upon mee, I say the right bearing this burden is a good worke.
- 1Good works. In suffering.Good workes. In suffering.
- 2In sickness.In sicknesse.