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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.
1. How this righteousness of GOD, or, which is accepted of GOD, saves. 2. How it is offered to us. 3. To whom it is offered. 4. Upon what qualifications. 5. How it is made ours. And lastly, What is required of us, when we have it. These hang one on another, but for memory sake I have thus distinguished them.
1. How this righteousnesse of GOD, or, which is accepted of GOD, saues. 2. How it is offered to vs. 3. To whom it is offered. 4. Vpon what qualifications. 5. How it is made ours. And lastly, What is required of vs, when we haue it. These hang one on another, but for memory sake I haue thus distinguished them.
First: How doth it save?1 I answer: 1. This righteousness saves after the same manner that the unrighteousness of Adam did condemn: let us set these two together, and the thing will be plain.
First: How doth it saue?1 I answer: 1. This righteousnes saues after the same manner that the vnrighteousnesse of Adam did condemne: let vs set these two together, and the thing will be plaine.
- 11. Quest. How it saveth.1. Quest. How it saueth.
First,1 as Adam was one man, yet the common root of all mankind, of whom all that are guilty of death, and shall be damned, must be borne: so CHRIST, the second Adam, stands as a public person, and the Root of all that shall be ingrafted into, and borne of him.