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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.
that is, when GOD, in any turning of thy life, brings thee to such an exigent, that thou seest all at the point to be lost, that thou art at the point to be utterly undone, learn to trust in GOD in good earnest, and that shall guide thee, and turn thee the right way, when thy flesh is ready to go another way.
that is, when GOD, in any turning of thy life, brings thee to such an exigent, that thou seest all at the point to be lost, that thou art at the point to be vtterly vndone, learne to trust in GOD in good earnest, and that shall guide thee, and turne thee the right way, when thy flesh is ready to goe another way.
When thou hast any thing to do,1 if thou believe in God, that will make him ready to help thee, because then it is an acknowledging, and an attributing to his power. If he should do it in another case, he should lose his labour, he should lose his glory, men would not be built up in him by that which he did. Therefore, make use of faith, set faith on work, as I said. I should come to this now, to move you to trust in GOD in all cases. If I could persuade this, men would turn the courses of their lives, and would trust in him: for know, if thou trust in GOD, he never fails any that trust in him, as David saith, in