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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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Again, you will not be so exact, nor indent with the Lord what he will do to you; but though the Lord be slow and slack in rewarding ⟨p. 97⟩you, though he stay long, and suffer you to go on without taking any notice of you, as it were, nay perhaps he gives you many afflictions and persecutions, poverty, trouble, sickness, &c. though the Lord doth not do what you expect, yet your love will be free, it will go on, you will be ready to say as Paul did, I know whom I have trusted: that is, he was resolved to serve the Lord, to do his utmost, though the Lord did reserve himself and the recompense of reward to a further time, yet he was content. Such a disposition will be found in those that love the Lord Jesus.
Againe, you will not be so exact, nor indent with the Lord what hee will doe to you; but though the Lord be slow and slacke in rewarding ⟨p. 97⟩you, though he stay long, and suffer you to goe on without taking any notice of you, as it were, nay perhaps hee gives you many afflictions and persecutions, poverty, trouble, sicknesse, &c. though the Lord doth not doe what you expect, yet your love will be free, it will goe on, you will be ready to say as Paul did, I know whom I have trusted: that is, he was resolved to serve the Lord, to doe his utmost, though the Lord did reserve himselfe and the recompence of reward to a further time, yet he was content. Such a disposition will be found in those that love the Lord Iesus.
Again you may judge of your love to the Lord Jesus by another property of love,9 which is a hatred of sin, by your hatred of that which is contrary to him; for love is not better known by any thing than by hatred; for all hatred is properly rooted in love: for you hate nothing but because you love the contrary; therefore if you love the Lord Jesus, you will hate sin. Examine your selves by this, for it is a sure rule, if you love the Lord, you will hate that which is evil.