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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.
It is nothing but faith that enableth them to do it.1 By faith Moses left Pharaohs Court, and the pleasures of sin for a season, and chose adversity with the people of GOD: that is, as if he should say, If you would know why Moses did this, it was faith that enabled him: that is, he believed, that if he had enjoyed those pleasures of sin, he should have been a loser by them, he should have fared the worse for them. Again, he believed, that by his suffering adversity with the people of God, he should gain; it was only faith that made him do this. If thou haddest faith, thou wouldest forsake thy pleasures, and live a more strict life, as the Saints do. So that still you must keep that conclusion, that you must set faith awork in all the conclusions and passages of your life, for that is it that guides you in the right way.
It is nothing but faith that enableth them to doe it.1 By faith Moses left Pharoahs Court, and the pleasures of sinne for a season, and chose aduersity with the people of GOD: that is, as if hee should say, If you would know why Moses did this, it was faith that enabled him: that is, he beleeued, that if hee had enioyed those pleasures of sinne, he should haue beene a loser by them, hee should haue fared the worse for them. Againe, he beleeued, that by his suffering aduersity with the people of God, he should gaine; it was onely faith that made him doe this. If thou haddest faith, thou wouldest forsake thy pleasures, and liue a more strict life, as the Saints doe. So that still you must keepe that conclusion, that you must set faith aworke in all the conclusions and passages of your life, for that is it that guides you in the right way.
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Again,7 Take two men that have both children to provide for, they have posterity to care for; the one man he reasons thus with himself; If I leave them not as good a stock as I would, yet I shall leave them Gods blessing, which is able to make them prosper; and though I should leave them abundance, yet all that, without Gods blessing, will not be