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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.
When they are in places where there are holy speeches, and holy exercises, it is burdensome to them, they are out of their element, they are as men that are not upon their proper centre; these men desire to be in heaven, but they desire another kind of happiness ⟨p. 73⟩than there is in heaven; the felicity there is presented unto them under another Idea, they desire no more than the flesh desires: but to desire heaven indeed, as it is heaven, to desire God there in his pureness and holiness, to desire it so as thereby to be sequestered from all worldly, carnal and sensual delights, this a carnal man desires not. Therefore this is a distinguishing note and sign, that he that loves the Lord will love his appearance.
When they are in places where there are holy speeches, and holy exercises, it is burthensome to them, they are out of their element, they are as men that are not upon their proper center; these men desire to be in heaven, but they desire another kinde of happinesse ⟨p. 73⟩than there is in heaven; the felicity there is presented unto them under another Idea, they desire no more than the flesh desires: but to desire heaven indeed, as it is heaven, to desire God there in his purenesse and holinesse, to desire it so as thereby to be sequestred from all worldly, carnall and sensuall delights, this a carnall man desires not. Therefore this is a distinguishing note and signe, that he that loves the Lord will love his appearance.
Fourthly,4 you shall find this to be the property of love, he that loveth is very ready to speak of the party loved; love is full of loquacity, it is ready to fall into the praises of the party beloved, and to keep no measure in it, to abound in it, that is the disposition of every man that loveth. So is it in this love to the Lord Jesus: You may see it in David, as he abounded in love to the Lord, so he could never satisfy himself in praising the Lord: in