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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.
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.
You will say, How shall we know whether we hate it or no?
You will say, How shall wee know whether we hate it or no?
1In these three things you shall find wherein hatred differs from anger,2 and thereby you may examine your selves.
1In these three things you shall finde wherein hatred differs from anger,2 and thereby you may examine your selves.
- 1Answ.
- 2Three differences between hatred and anger.Three differences betweene hatred and anger.
First, hatred is more of generals; a man hates §1all drunkards, if he hate drunkenness: he hates all toads and all serpents, if he hate poison. A man is angry with this or that particular, but hatred is of all. I would ask thee, doest thou hate all sin, every thing that is called sin, all that belongs to sin? If it be this or that sin that you make against, you are but angry with sin, you do not hate sin: for hatred falls always upon the general. Examine therefore if you find this disposition in your hearts, that you hate every sin, that your hearts rise against every thing that is sinful, whatsoever is contrary to the Lord, whatsoever you apprehend under the notion of sin, that you hate, and resist, and strive against; this is a sign that you love the Lord.