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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 second thing that I promised,2 was to show you the subject of faith, and that is the whole heart of man; that is to say, (to name it distinctly) both the mind, and the will: Now to show you that both these are the subject of faith, you must know that these two things are required:
The second thing that I promised,2 was to shew you the subiect of faith, and that is the whole heart of man; that is to say, (to name it distinctly) both the minde, and the will: Now to shew you that both these are the subject of faith, you must know that these two things are required:
- 2The subject of faith.The subiect of faith.
First,1 on the part of the understanding, it is required that it believe; that is, that it conceive and apprehend what GOD hath revealed in the Scriptures; and here an act of GOD must come in, putting a light into the understanding: for, my beloved, Faith is but an addition of a new light to reason, that whereas reason is purblind, faith comes, and gives a new light, and makes us see the things revealed by GOD, which reason cannot do; by faith we apprehend these great and glorious Mysteries, which otherwise we could not apprehend, ⟨p. 56⟩as we see it expressed in 2 Cor. 4.2 The god of this World hath blinded their eyes, that the light should not shine into their hearts, by which they should believe this glorious Gospel. So then there must be a light put into the mind, that a man may be able by that to elevate and raise his reason to believe this: that is, to conceive and to apprehend the things that are offered and tendered in the Gospel.