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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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1But now you will say, What perilous time is that, when GOD will deal so with them, you will say, in those perilous times, for ought we see, the Sword devours one as well as another; certainly, it sweeps away one as well as another: Sickness, when it comes, it sweeps away one as well as another: And therefore in the perilous time, I see no difference between the godly and the wicked.
1But now you will say, What perrilous time is that, when GOD will deale so with them, you will say, in those perrilous times, for ought we see, the Sword deuoures one as well as another; certainely, it sweepes away one as well as another: Sicknesse, when it comes, it sweepes away one as well as another: And therefore in the perrilous time, I see no difference between the godly and the wicked.
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1I answer, There is difference when the same affliction falls upon both.2 Look in Jer. 24. you shall find there, that both were carried away captives, good men and bad men, the whole Chapter is spent in it; it is but a short Chapter: See there what is the difference there is in the same afflictions which fell to both: saith he, There were two Baskets, the one was full of good Figs, the other was full of bad, which ⟨p. 209⟩could not be eaten for badness, look in the Text, you shall find that both were carried away captive, but here is the difference, they were carried both in an indifferent manner, (saith he) you shall be carried captive aswell as the other, the good Figs in the Basket, but I will know you, mine eyes shall be upon you to do you good, and I will bring you back in due season, and I will plant you in captivity, and you shall grow; and I will build you, and you shall not be destroyed; and I will give you a heart to know me in that condition; and I will be your GOD, and you shall be my people: all this will I do to you, although you be in the same affliction. And what will he do to the other? They shall be carried in a Basket into captivity, but, saith the Lord, I will make you a reproach, I will make you a curse, I will make you a common talk, I will destroy you when you come into captivity, with the Sword, with Famine, with Pestilence, mine eyes shall be on you for ill in such a case. So I say, the same Besom of destruction may sweep away both, the same Sword may devour both, the same disease may seize upon both, there is no great difference outwardly in the same affliction; both may die, and is there not great difference in their death? both may be sick, and is there not a great difference? In the one his heart is made glad and light in Gods countenance, in his Beloved; when as the other hath nothing to hold him