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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.
Last of all,4 you will be ready to say, It is true, I would trust in God, 2if he did alway show mercy for my sake, If I saw the Saints always bring their enterprises to pass, If I did see it still well with them that trust in him, but I find it contrary for the most part: It is ill with them that trust in the Lord, and evil ⟨p. 200⟩men prosper; and therefore what encouragement have I to trust in GOD in this manner as you exhort me to do, when I am brought to such an exigent, to such a case that my life or my goods are in hazard, or my name, it is not my best way so to do: I see by experience, that those that are wise men, politic men, and those that have the greatest means, they prosper, when as other men that fear GOD, do not bring thy devices to pass.
Last of all,4 you will be ready to say, It is true, I would trust in God, 2if he did alway shew mercie for my sake, If I saw the Saints alwaies bring their enterprizes to passe, If I did see it still well with them that trust in him, but I finde it contrary for the most part: It is ill with them that trust in the Lord, and euill ⟨p. 200⟩men prosper; and therefore what encouragement haue I to trust in GOD in this manner as you exhort me to doe, when I am brought to such an exigent, to such a case that my life or my goods are in hazard, or my name, it is not my best way so to doe: I see by experience, that those that are wise men, politique men, and those that haue the greatest meanes, they prosper, when as other men that feare GOD, doe not bring thy deuices to passe.
- 4Object.Obiect.
- 2About the prosperity of wicked men, and the Saints afflictions.