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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.
as the Iron cannot rest till it come to the Lodestone, and as the stone cannot rest till it come to the centre, so the heart of man, when GOD draweth it, when he hath changed the will, then he finds such a disposition in him as was in the Spouse, Cant. 2. She fought him whom her soul loved, she sought him by night, and by day, she sought him in the street, and among the Watchmen, and never rested until she had found him: So when GOD hath drawn ⟨p. 104⟩a mans heart, when he hath inclined a mans will to embrace Christ, he is never satisfied until he have found him.
as the Iron cannot rest till it come to the Loadstone, and as the stone cannot rest till it come to the center, so the heart of man, when GOD draweth it, when hee hath changed the will, then hee findes such a disposition in him as was in the Spouse, Cant. 2. She fought him whom her soule loued, she sought him by night, and by day, she sought him in the street, and among the Watchmen, and neuer rested vntill shee had found him: So when GOD hath drawne ⟨p. 104⟩a mans heart, when hee hath inclined a mans will to embrace Christ, hee is neuer satisfied vntill he haue found him.
But, you will say, GOD doth this by means, he useth Arguments to draw the will.
But, you will say, GOD doth this by meanes, he vseth Arguments to draw the will.