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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.
Another thing that we are ready to object,2 is, But what if such a thing should come to pass? what if the evil that I fear should fall upon me? what if the business I go about proceed not, which is of that moment, I am undone, if it be not done?
Another thing that we are ready to object,2 is, But what if such a thing should come to passe? what if the euill that I feare should fall vpon me? what if the businesse I goe about proceed not, which is of that moment, I am vndone, if it be not done?
- 2Object.Obiect.
Herein the heart of a man must be quiet.1
- 1Ans.
First, It may be thou art too hasty in this kind; many times thou thinkest in such cases, that thou art without help and without hope, when it is not so: Know therefore, that a man may be under water and rise again, he may sink twice or thrice before he be drowned; thou mayest receive many foils, many blows, and yet not lose the victory. The best Saints have been under the cloud for a great while, but they were not destroyed, they perished not: So was Joseph, so was David ▪ so were all. Therefore put the case that thou fall into the particular ill, that the evil which