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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.
When we preach faith, you may see what it is in Acts 26.17, 18.1 Mark what the message was that CHRIST sends to Paul, nothing but to preach faith; but what was that? Saith he, to turn men from the power of Satan, to God, to turn men from darkness ⟨p. 99⟩to light. That is, to cause them to forsake their former ways of darkness, that they have been led into by the Devil, and to turn them to GOD, to seek him. So that then a man is said truly to believe, when his heart is turned to GOD;2 that is, when a man before was given to this pleasure or to that pleasure and commodity, his heart was wedded to it, he would have an estate in this world, and he would have credit in the world, and he would have place with men, and he would be some-body in the flesh; his heart was set on these things, he would follow them.
When we preach faith, you may see what it is in Acts 26.17, 18.1 Marke what the message was that CHRIST sends to Paul, nothing but to preach faith; but what was that? Saith hee, to turne men from the power of Satan, to God, to turne men from darknesse ⟨p. 99⟩to light. That is, to cause them to forsake their former wayes of darknesse, that they haue beene ledde into by the Deuill, and to turne them to GOD, to seeke him. So that then a man is said truely to beleeue, when his heart is turned to GOD;2 that is, when a man before was giuen to this pleasure or to that pleasure and commodity, his heart was wedded to it, hee would haue an estate in this world, and hee would haue credit in the world, and he would haue place with men, and he would be some-body in the flesh; his heart was set on these things, he would follow them.