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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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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.
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 beautie, and disposition, and frame of the will; anger is a passion that dies, and flittes away after a time; but hatred continues. Is your disposition such to your sinnes? examine your selves; nothing is more frequent, my brethren, than to be humbled for some sinne, which amazeth you for the present, but doth your hatred continue? If not, you doe but fall out with your sinnes onely, and grow friends with them againe. If you did hate them, as you should, you would never returne to amity with them more.
Many a man takes resolutions to himself, I will be drunk no more, I will be a gamester no more, I will not commit such, and such gross sins, as I have done any more; perhaps some shame, or some fear hath followed him, some deep apprehension of wrath and judgement, which set him upon this resolution for the present; but if the heart be right that thou hatest sin as thou shouldest, thou wilt continue hating of it. Therefore consider, whether you love the Lord ⟨p. 100⟩Jesus by this trial, whether your hearts hate sin, in your constant resolution or no. This was the disposition that was in Lot, His righteous soul was vexed with the unclean conversation of the Sodomites, that is, he did not only abstain from the acts that they did, but his soul wrought against them, he was vexed with them, as a man is vexed with a thing that is contrary to his disposition.