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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.
OF EFFECTUAL FAITH. The fifth Sermon.
OF EFFECTVALL FAITH. The fifth Sermon.
1. THESS. 1.3. Remembering your effectual Faith, &c.
1. THESS. 1.3. Remembring your effectuall Faith, &c.
THE first thing wherein thou shouldest use Faith,1 is to comfort thy self by it. Therefore consider, you that doubt of this, you that make question, (I speak to those that have the work wrought, whom the Holy Ghost hath made to desire Christ above all things, I say) remember that God justifieth the ungodly, and that you have nothing to do, but to take him.
THE first thing wherein thou shouldest vse Faith,1 is to comfort thy selfe by it. Therefore consider, you that doubt of this, you that make question, (I speake to those that haue the work wrought, whom the Holy Ghost hath made to desire Christ aboue all things, I say) remember that God iustifieth the vngodly, and that you haue nothing to doe, but to take him.
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