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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.
1I answer, humiliation is not required as a qualification; for no tears of ours can give satisfaction. And again, it hath been found in a Reprobate; For Judas had it. Neither is it any part of sanctification.
1I answer, humiliation is not required as a qualification; for no teares of ours can giue satisfaction. And againe, it hath beene found in a Reprobate; For Iudas had it. Neither is it any part of sanctification.
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But how is it required then?
1As that without which we will not come to CHRIST. As for example, If we say to a man, The Physician is ready to heal you; before you will be healed, you must have a sense of your your sickness: this sense is not required by the Physician: (for the Physician is ready to heal him) but if he be not sick, and have a sense of it, he will not come to the Physician. If at a general Dole it be proclaimed, let all come hither that be hungry,2 a man is not excluded if he be not hungry, but else he will not come: therefore we preach, that none receive the Gospel but the poor, those that be humble, and touched with sense of sin and wrath; and we preach so, because indeed no man will come without it.