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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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Again,3 if GOD should accept of a faith that is ineffectual, the Devils have such a faith, by which they apprehend the Word, and a faith that brings forth effects: for they fear and tremble; but this is not the faith that purifieth the heart, it is not an effectual, it is not a purging, lively faith.
Againe,3 if GOD should accept of a faith that is ineffectuall, the Deuils haue such a faith, by which they apprehend the Word, and a faith that brings forth effects: for they feare and tremble; but this is not the faith that purifieth the heart, it is not an effectuall, it is not a purging, liuely faith.
- 3Because the Devils have such a faith.Because the Deuils haue such a faith.
Again,4 CHRIST receives none but them that deny themselves, and are willing to take up their cross and to follow him, that mortify the deeds of the body by the Spirit. Now an ineffectual faith doth none of these, and therefore that faith that saveth, must be a working faith, or else these things should not be necessarily required.
Againe,4 CHRIST receiues none but them that deny themselues, and are willing to take vp their crosse and to follow him, that mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit. Now an ineffectuall faith doth none of these, and therefore that faith that saueth, must bee a working faith, or else these things should not be necessarily required.
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