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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
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Secondly, as Adams first unrighteousness, the first sin he committed, is communicated to men, and made theirs by imputation; and not so only, but by inherency also; (for it hath bred in them original sin:) After the same manner, and by the same equity, the righteousness that Christ wrought, is made ours by imputation, and this imputative righteousness of Christ worketh a righteousness ⟨p. 6⟩which qualifies the person, and is inherent in us. Lastly, as after this unrighteousness comes death, which rules and reigns in us, bringing every thing into subjection, so that all the comforts men possess are overcome in some degree, while we live here; (all sicknesses, and troubles, and crosses, being as so many skirmishes which Death hath with us, before the main Battle comes:) So in CHRIST life reigns over all, and brings all into subjection to him: that is, it brings all the troubles man sustaineth, all the enemies he hath, yea death and sin into subjection, by degrees in this life, and after death perfectly. There is a comparison made in Rom. 5.14.1 which you shall find more fully to express, and more largely to set this out then I have done. The first Adam was a figure of him that was to come, and 1 Cor. 15.45.2 CHRIST is called the second Adam; now you do see the miserable fruit of Adams fall, you see by lamentable experience, what original sin is, and how much it hath corrupted us; why then should you think it a strange thing, that the righteousness of CHRIST should be imputed? Again, Death, you see, reigns over all by one, Why then will not you believe that life shall reign over all men, that is, bring every enemy of ours into subjection by the other? For the righteousness of one saves, as the unrighteousness of the other condemns.
Secondly, as Adams first vnrighteousnes, the first sinne he committed, is communicated to men, and made theirs by imputation; and not so onely, but by inherencie also; (for it hath bred in them originall sinne:) After the same manner, and by the same equity, the righteousnesse that Christ wrought, is made ours by imputation, and this imputatiue righteousnesse of Christ worketh a righteousnesse