A09950:789
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.
The last thing (in the prosecution of this point) was the means whereby this love is wrought in our hearts, which we did not then finish, notwithstanding we will not proceed in it at this time, but rather al••r the matter, and do that which I did not then intend; because there are many this day that are to receive the ⟨p. 58⟩Sacrament, and you know when we come to receive the Sacrament, our chief business is to examine our selves. Let every man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup.
The last thing (in the prosecution of this point) was the meanes whereby this love is wrought in our hearts, which we did not then finish, notwithstanding we will not proceed in it at this time, but rather al••r the matter, and doe that which I did not then intend; because there are many this day that are to receive the ⟨p. 58⟩Sacrament, and you know when we come to receive the Sacrament, our chiefe businesse is to examine our selves. Let every man examine himselfe, and so let him eate of this bread and drinke of this cup.
We have often pressed to you the necessity of these two things:
We have often pressed to you the necessitie of these two things:
1First, that you may not omit the Sacrament when it is administered in the Congregation whereof you are members: for if they were to be cut off from the people that neglected the Passover,