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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.
First, There is no case so desperate, but it ⟨p. 190⟩may be helped▪ Put the case thy name, which is so tender a thing, which is like unto glass, which if it be broke, cannot be made up again; Suppose it be broken all in pieces in the World, GOD shall make it up. Joseph, his name could not be made up again, and he cleared as innocent of all; but GOD cleared him. David now by his great sins, he brake his good name, so that now it was not an easy thing to heal Davids name; yet God did it abundantly, and he dyed full of riches and honour: It was forgotten as a thing that had never been; when he had gotten credit with GOD, he got credit with men.
First, There is no case so desperate, but it ⟨p. 190⟩may be helped▪ Put the case thy name, which is so tender a thing, which is like vnto glasse, which if it be broke, cannot be made vp againe; Suppose it be broken all in pieces in the World, GOD shall make it vp. Ioseph, his name could not be made vp againe, and he cleared as innocent of all; but GOD cleared him. Dauid now by his great sinnes, hee brake his good name, so that now it was not an easie thing to heale Dauids name; yet God did it abundantly, and he dyed full of riches and honour: It was forgotten as a thing that had neuer beene; when he had gotten credit with GOD, he got credit with men.
And so for poverty: It is not easy for a man to be rich, riches have wings. It is true, riches have wings to fly to a man, if God bid them come, as well as they have wings to fly from a man, if GOD bid them leave him.
And so for pouerty: It is not easie for a man to be rich, riches haue wings. It is true, riches haue wings to flye to a man, if God bid them come, as well as they haue wings to flye from a man, if GOD bid them leaue him.