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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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1Besides, consider what the Lord might have required of you; you know you are his creatures, you know what a distance there is between the Lord and you, if he had put you on a harder task, you ought to have done it, if he had said to us, ⟨p. 45⟩you shall offer your children to me in sacrifice, you shall give your own bodies to be burned, you shall be my slaves, who could have said any thing to that, for he is the Lord, the great God, our sovereign Creator: But now when the Lord comes and asks no more at our hands but this, you shall love me, will you deny it him? This is effectually urged in the same Chapter, Deut. 10.14. where Moses (mark the manner of urging it) had described to them what the Lord had done for them, that he had brought them into that good land, &c. And now, saith he, what doth the Lord require of thee for all this, but only this, that thou love the Lord thy God? As if he should say, the Lord might ask much more at thy hands; if he had, thou hadst no reason to deny it; but all that he requires is that thou love him: and wilt thou deny this unto him?
1Besides, consider what the Lord might have required of you; you know you are his creatures, you know what a distance there is betweene the Lord and you, if he had put you on a harder task, you ought to have done it, if he had said to us, ⟨p. 45⟩you shall offer your children to me in sacrifice, you shall give your owne bodies to be burned, you shall be my slaves, who could have said any thing to that, for he is the Lord, the great God, our soveraigne Creatour: But now when the Lord comes and askes no more at our hands but this, you shall love mee, will you deny it him? This is effectually urged in the same Chapter, Deut. 10.14. where Moses (marke the manner of urging it) had described to them what the Lord had done for them, that hee had brought them into that good land, &c. And now, saith he, what doth the Lord require of thee for all this, but onely this, that thou love the Lord thy God? As if hee should say, the Lord might aske much more at thy hands; if he had, thou hadst no reason to deny it; but all that hee requires is that thou love him: and wilt thou denie this unto him?