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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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Lastly,1 when the Lord shall be a suitor to us, when God shall offer his own Son to us in marriage, and we refuse him; when Christ shall come from heaven to show us the way to salvation, and to guide our feet into the way of peace, and we shall either be careless or resist it, do you not think the Lord will be filled with indignation against such a man? will he not be angry with such a man? Is not the Son angry when he is not received? Kiss the Son lest he be angry: Will he not lay the axe to the root of the tree, and cut off such a man, as men do briers and thorns, whose end is damnation? This is the case of all those that love not, when they reject the Lord, and the Lord shall come to be a suitor to them, and they will have none of him. This is enough to clear this to you, That whosoever loves not, is in an evil condition, in a state of damnation, he is not in Christ, he is a man without the Covenant. We come to make some use of this.
Lastly,1 when the Lord shall be a suiter to us, when God shall offer his owne Sonne to us in marriage, and we refuse him; when Christ shall come from heaven to shew us the way to salvation, and to guide our feete into the way of peace, and we shall either be carelesse or resist it, doe you not thinke the Lord will be filled with indignation against such a man? will hee not be angry with such a man? Is not the Sonne angry when he is not received? Kisse the Sonne lest he be angry: Will he not lay the axe to the roote of the tree, and cut off such a man, as men doe briers and thornes, whose end is damnation? This is the case of all those that love not, when they reject the Lord, and the Lord shall come to be a suiter to them, and they will have none of him. This is enough to cleare this to you, That whosoever loves not, is in an evill condition, in a state of damnation, he is not in Christ, he is a man without the Covenant. We come to make some use of this.
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