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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.
To use another expression, that you may know what it is.
To vse another expression, that you may know what it is.
There was a King of this Land, that sent his servant, a General of his Army, to spare a City: he had command under the Broad Seal, from the Council, and from the Kings own hand, to do it: and to disobey this Warrant was death: But withal, the King sent him a secret message that he should destroy the City, and to trust him to save his life. The party did so: The Broad-Seal and Commission was to spare the City, to forbear it, The secret charge was to destroy it: This he did, and trusted the King for his life; if he had failed him, he had been destroyed. ⟨p. 170⟩These similitudes show what it is to trust in GOD: If thou be brought to such an exigent, if thou wilt trust GOD in such a case, as wherein if he fail thee, thou art undone; This is to trust GOD, not to seek his blessing so as to make that an addition, but to put all upon him. Therefore, that you may know that this is to trust in GOD, know, that except thou do it thus, GOD is not ready to answer thee. Therefore commonly, he puts not forth his strength to deliver men, or to bestow upon them any great blessing, but when he hath brought men to such an exigent. And because men will not trust in him commonly, while other props are taken away, (For we should trust in GOD in the middest of prosperity and happiness, but because men will not do it till then,) he strips them of all, that they may do it; he brings a man to such a case, that he shall have nothing else to trust unto.
There was a King of this Land, that sent his seruant, a Generall of his Army, to spare a Citie: he had command vnder the Broad Seale, from the Councell, and from the Kings owne hand, to doe it: and to disobey this Warrant was death: But withall, the King sent him a secret message that he should destroy the Citie, and to trust him to saue his life. The party did so: The Broad-Seale and Commission was to spare the City, to sorbeare it, The secret charge was to destroy it: This he did, and trusted the King for his life; if hee had fayled him, he had been destroyed.