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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.
Again, afflictions that come to the wicked, they come suddenly. Therefore it is a thing proper to the wicked,1 Prou. 1.27. Their desolation shall come suddenly, and their destruction as a whirlwind: Why, is it not so with the godly? do not they often perish by sudden death? doth it not fall on them? do not sudden changes come to them as well as to the others? No: Things are sudden, not from their suddenness, but from the want of the preparation of the person that they fall upon: therefore GOD will not send affliction upon his children till he have prepared them; he will prepare them, and then it is no matter if they come suddenly, it is no matter though he strike them suddenly before they be aware; when he hath fitted them, it comes not suddenly, Death ⟨p. 211⟩comes not upon them as a snare: that is to be taken in a snare properly, when the Beast is taken in a snare by the Huntsman, or by the Fowler, who means their destruction; so afflictions come upon evil men as a snare, when as they are taken in an evil Net, Satan takes them there to destroy them eternally.
Againe, afflictions that come to the wicked, they come suddenly. Therefore it is a thing proper to the wicked,1 Prou. 1.27. Their desolation shall come suddenly, and their destruction as a whirlewind: Why, is it not so with the godly? doe not they often perish by sudden death? doth it not fall on them? doe not sudden changes come to them as well as to the others? No: Things are sudden, not from their suddennesse, but from the want of the preparation of the person that they fall vpon: therefore GOD will not send affliction vpon his children till he haue prepared them; hee will prepare them, and then it is no matter if they come suddenly, it is no matter though he strike them suddenly before they be aware; when he hath fitted them, it comes not suddenly, Death ⟨p. 211⟩comes not vpon them as a snare: that is to be taken in a snare properly, when the Beast is taken in a snare by the Huntsman, or by the Fowler, who meanes their destruction; so afflictions come vpon euill men as a snare, when as they are taken in an euill Net, Satan takes them there to destroy them eternally.