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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
Part › Sermon 4: THE FOURTH SERMON.Part › Sermon 4: THE FOVRTH SERMON.
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But that which of all other things will manifest most to us this affection of love,7 it is those affections which depend on it; you shall know it, I say, by the affections that hang upon it. It is true that all the affections depend upon love, but, for this time, I will instance but in two, namely, Anger, and Fear.
But that which of all other things will manifest most to us this affection of love,7 it is those affections which depend on it; you shall know it, I say, by the affections that hang upon it. It is true that all the affections depend upon love, but, for this time, I will instance but in two, namely, Anger, and Feare.
- 7Property of love, it commandeth the affections, especially anger and fear.Property of love, it commandeth the affections, especially anger and feare.
Look whatsoever it is that a man loveth, where he finds any impediment in the prosecution of it, he is angry, he desires with as much earnestness to remove that impediment, as he loves the thing.
Looke whatsoever it is that a man loveth, where he findes any impediment in the prosecution of it, hee is angry, hee desires with as much earnestnesse to remoove that impediment, as hee loves the thing.