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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, This taking is nothing else but that which we call Faith: and therefore that we may not err in the main, I will declare what Faith is.2 And it is nothing else but this, when these two things concur, that God the Father will give his Son, and freely offers righteousness, and we receive this righteousness, taking Christ for our Husband, our King and Lord.3
1I answer, This taking is nothing else but that which we call Faith: and therefore that we may not erre in the maine, I will declare what Faith is.2 And it is nothing else but this, when these two things concurre, that God the Father will giue his Sonne, and freely offers righteousnesse, and we receiue this rghteousnesse, taking Christ for our Husband, our King and Lord.3
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- 2Faith, what.
- 3Object.Obiect.
But, you will say, Faith is more: for Fides est actus intellectus, It is an act of the understanding, assenting to Truths for the Authority of the Speaker; therefore the mind and will must concur to make up this Faith.1
But, you will say, Faith is more: for Fides est actus intellectus, It is an act of the vnderstanding, assenting to Truths for the Authority of the Speaker; therefore the mind and will must concurre to make vp this Faith.