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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.
1Thus should we Ministers do, lay this main foundation, to build up our hearers in this, and the rest will follow. This Paul did, that was the great Master-builder, he lays down in all his Epistles, the foundation of faith: in his Epistles to the Romans, to the Ephesians, to the Colossians, to the Galatians; and after that he deduceth particulars, and buildeth on it: so your main business is to consider whether you have faith, to get assurance of that, and when you have that, then strive against particular vices, and adorn your selves with particular graces: For, because you labour not to have this main grace, this root and foundation of all the rest, I say, this is the reason ⟨p. 75⟩why those good motions that you have put into you by the Holy Ghost, those motions that you have in the hearing of the Word, and the good purposes that you take to your selves, come to nothing, because they have not faith for their ground.
1Thus should wee Ministers doe, lay this maine foundation, to build vp our hearers in this, and the rest will follow. This Paul did, that was the great Master-builder, hee layes downe in all his Epistles, the foundation of faith: in his Epistles to the Romanes, to the Ephesians, to the Colossians, to the Galatians; and after that hee deduceth particulars, and buildeth on it: so your maine businesse is to consider whether you haue faith, to get assurance of that, and when you haue that, then striue against particular vices, and adorne your selues with particular graces: For, because you labour not to haue this maine grace, this roote and foundation of all the rest, I say, this is the reason ⟨p. 75⟩why those good motions that you haue put into you by the Holy Ghost, those motions that you haue in the hearing of the Word, and the good purposes that you take to your selues, come to nothing, because they haue not faith for their ground.
- 1How Ministers should build.