A09950:708
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.
This is enough to make this clear to you, that these two great radical virtues faith and love, are the two pillars, as it were, upon which our salvation is built. The first of them we have handled at large, Faith: and the efficacy of it in the Text we handled of effectual faith: Now the other remains, of Love; whence we will deliver this point to you; that,
This is enough to make this cleere to you, that these two great radicall vertues faith and love, are the two pillars, as it were, upon which our salvation is built. The first of them we have handled at large, Faith: and the efficacy of it in the Text we handled of effectuall faith: Now the other remaines, of Love; whence wee will deliver this point to you; that,
Whosoever loves not,1 whatsoever else he find in himself, whosoever loves not the Lord Jesus, is not in Christ, and by consequent, in a cursed and damnable estate.
Whosoever loves not,1 whatsoever else he find in himselfe, whosoever loves not the Lord Iesus, is not in Christ, and by consequent, in a cursed and damnable estate.
- 1Doct.
Because this is necessarily required that you have faith, and love, or else you can have no salvation; or else you are not in Christ, and cannot be acceptable of God through Christ. So our business will be to open unto you this grace of ⟨p. 6⟩