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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.
I would put you to this trial,4 and ask you but this question; you shall know it by this: Do you love all the Saints? You shall find that the §1Apostle Paul still in his Epistles puts in that caution, Love to all the Saints. If thou love grace and ⟨p. 201⟩holiness, thou wilt love it wheresoever it is. Many men will love some particular grace, especially when it suits with their disposition, and is agreeable to them, and to their constitution, but to love all grace, to love all holiness in all the Saints wheresoever it is found, it is an infallible sign that thou lovest the Lord Jesus.
I would put you to this tryall,4 and aske you but this question; you shall know it by this: Doe you love all the Saints? You shall finde that the §1Apostle Paul still in his Epistles puts in that caution, Love to all the Saints. If thou love grace and ⟨p. 201⟩holinesse, thou wilt love it wheresoever it is. Many men will love some particular grace, especially when it suteth with their disposition, and is agreeable to them, and to their constitution, but to love all grace, to love all holinesse in all the Saints wheresoever it is found, it is an infallible signe that thou lovest the Lord Iesus.
- 4Trials of our love to holy men.Tryalls of our love to holy men.
Again, doest thou love none but them; that, where grace is, thou lovest, and where it is not, thou withdrawest thy love?