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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.
1If you take Wine, if you would know whether it be good Wine, if you find it flat and dead, if you drink it, and it heats you not, it warms you not at the heart, it quickens you not, it revives not your spirits; you ⟨p. 101⟩will say, it is naught, if it were good Wine, it would do this.
1If you take Wine, if you would know whether it be good Wine, if you finde it flat and dead, if you drinke it, and it heates you not, it warmes you not at the heart, it quickens you not, it reviues not your spirits; you ⟨p. 101⟩will say, it is naught, if it were good Wine, it would doe this.
- 1Similes.
If you come to look on Plants, if you find there no fruit, nor no leaves, you say, this Plant is dead.
If you come to looke on Plants, if you find there no fruite, nor no leaues, you say, this Plant is dead.
So take a Jewell, and when it comes to the Touch-stone, or any way that you try it; you say, it is fair, but it is a counterfeit Jewell, it is a false Diamond, or whatsoever it be.