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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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Secondly, hatred desires the utter destruction of the thing it hates, anger doth not so, anger desires but a revenge proportionable to the injury: therefore we say there is a kind of justice in anger, it would not have the party that it is angry with to be destroyed, but it would have him sensible of its displeasure, it would have something done that might answer the injury that is offered; but hatred desires the destruction of a thing utterly. Now do you do so with your sins? do you desire to have them wholly extirpate ⟨p. 99⟩and rooted out of you? to have your lusts thoroughly and perfectly mortified? are you willing to have sin so clean taken away, that you may have any no liberty to have dalliance with it in any kind? do you hate it so as that you cannot endure to come near it, nor to have it within your sight? It is a sign you hate it indeed.
Secondly, hatred desires the utter destruction of the thing it hates, anger doth not so, anger desires but a revenge proportionable to the injurie: therefore we say there is a kinde of justice in anger, it would not have the party that it is angry with to be destroyed, but it would have him sensible of its displeasure, it would have something done that might answer the injurie that is offered; but hatred desires the destruction of a thing utterly. Now doe you doe so with your sinnes? doe you desire to have them wholly extirpate ⟨p. 99⟩and rooted out of you? to have your lusts thorowly and perfectly mortified? are you willing to have sinne so cleane taken away, that you may have any no libertie to have dalliance with it in any kind? do you hate it so as that you cannot endure to come neere it, nor to have it within your sight? It is a signe you hate it indeed.
Lastly, hatred differeth from anger in this,§3 that it is implacable: hatred comes from judgement, and it continues, and therefore hatred is not a passion, but we call it an affection; it is a beauty, and disposition, and frame of the will; anger is a passion that dies, and flits away after a time; but hatred continues. Is your disposition such to your sins? examine your selves; nothing is more frequent, my brethren, than to be humbled for some sin, which amazeth you for the present, but doth your hatred continue? If not, you do but fall out with your sins only, and grow friends with them again. If you did hate them, as you should, you would never return to amity with them more.