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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
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Thirdly consider, that though they do prosper, and godly men do not so, yet their low estate, their imprisonment, their poverty, their obscurity, the disgrace which they are under, this is better to them, then the honour, and the pomp, the titles and the riches that evil men have. I can but name these things. Psal. 37. A little that the righteous hath, is better then the riches of many wicked. What is the meaning of that? That is, they have more comfort in that little, then the other have in their fair Palaces, in their great states; thou mayest have more comfort in a little, then they have in their abundance; thou mayest have more comfort in obscurity, as Paul saith, as not known, though a man be obscure, yet if he be known to GOD, and to mens consciences, he is of greater eminency then those that are in the highest place. So though thou have poor possessions in outward things, though ⟨p. 208⟩thou be melancholic, and always sorry, yet that little, that very condition is better to thee then the outward condition is to the other.
Thirdly consider, that though they doe prosper, and godly men doe not so, yet their low estate, their imprisonment, their pouerty, their obscurity, the disgrace which they are vnder, this is better to them, then the honour, and the pompe, the titles and the riches that euill men haue. I can but name these things. Psal. 37. A little that the righteous hath, is better then the riches of many wicked. What is the meaning of that? That is, they haue more comfort in that little, then the other haue in their faire Pallaces, in their great states; thou mayest haue more comfort in a little, then they haue in their abundance; thou mayest haue more comfort in obscurity, as Paul saith, as not knowne, though a man be obscure, yet if he be knowne to GOD, and to mens consciences, he is of greater eminency then those that are in the highest place. So though thou haue poore possessions in outward things, though ⟨p. 208⟩thou be melancholique, and alwayes sorry, yet that little, that very condition is better to thee then the outward condition is to the other.