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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.
Again, Doest thou hate sin? Doest thou think to love GOD, and not to hate that, which he hateth? If a man love GOD, he is holy and pure, and there is no man that loves the one contrary, but he must needs hate the other. There is no man that loves light, but he must hate darkness. If thou love GOD, in his person, in his purity, in his holiness, thou must hate sin; and this hatred is general; thou wilt hate all sin, if thou hate any, and hatred will breed the destruction of a thing.
Againe, Doest thou hate sinne? Doest thou thinke to loue GOD, and not to hate that, which he hateth? If a man loue GOD, he is holy and pure, and there is no man that loues the one contrary, but he must needes hate the other. There is no man that loues light, but he must hate darknesse. If thou loue GOD, in his person, in his purity, in his holinesse, thou must hate sinne; and this hatred is generall; thou wilt hate all sinne, if thou hate any, and hatred will breede the destruction of a thing.
Again, Doest thou love GOD? art thou willing to do any thing for his sake? Doest thou reckon matters of greatest difficulty easy to do; as Jacob did make it a matter of ease because of love?
Againe, Doest thou loue GOD? art thou willing to doe any thing for his sake? Doest thou reckon matters of greatest difficulty easie to doe; as Iacob did make it a matter of ease because of loue?
Again, Doest thou love the Saints, those that are like him, those that are of such a disposition as God is of? Shall a man say he loves the purity and the holiness of GOD, which he hath not seen, which is hidden from his eyes, when he doth not love the holiness and the purity that he sees in his Saints? For there it is taught in a visible ⟨p. 127⟩