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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.
To this I answer;1 They take the comparison amiss: For the scope of it is this; as a soulless body is nothing worth, it is ⟨p. 70⟩dead, and no man regardeth it; so is a workless faith: The meaning is not, that works are as the soul, and faith as the body; but, as a man, when he looks upon a carcass, and seeth no life in it, no pulse, no motion, no sense, such a body is nothing worth; so when we see a faith without motion, that hath no pulses, that hath no expression of life in it, such a faith is of no worth.
To this I answer;1 They take the comparison amisse: For the scope of it is this; as a soulelesse body is nothing worth, it is ⟨p. 70⟩dead, and no man regardeth it; so is a workelesse faith: The meaning is not, that workes are as the soule, and faith as the body; but, as a man, when he lookes vpon a carkasse, and seeth no life in it, no pulse, no motion, no sence, such a body is nothing worth; so when we see a faith without motion, that hath no pulses, that hath no expression of life in it, such a faith is of no worth.
- 1What meant by these words Faith without works is dead.What meant by these words Faith without workes is dead.