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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.
First, there is a love of pity, as when you love a thing, you know, you desire the preservation of it; when you find any thing lye upon it that destroys it, you pity the thing you love, and desire ⟨p. 9⟩to remove it: So a father pities his son when he is sick, when he is vicious and untoward, he loves him now with a love of pity, he desires to remove the thing that hurts it.
First, there is a love of pitty, as when you love a thing, you know, you desire the preservation of it; when you finde any thing lye upon it that destroyes it, you pitty the thing you love, and desire ⟨p. 9⟩to remove it: So a father pitties his sonne when hee is sicke, when hee is vicious and untoward, hee loves him now with a love of pitty, he desires to remove the thing that hurts it.
Secondly, there is a love of concupiscence,§2 that is, when a man desires the thing that he is said to love merely for his use. As when you love an inanimate creature, or any other creature for your use, you are said to love it with a love of concupiscentiall desire: and this in common men is a suitableness between the object and the lower faculties.
Secondly, there is a love of concupiscence,§2 that is, when a man desires the thing that hee is said to love meerely for his use. As when you love an inanimate creature, or any other creature for your use, you are said to love it with a love of concupiscentiall desire: and this in common men is a sutablenesse between the object and the lower faculties.