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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.
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But, you will say, would you have us to love none but the Saints? I answer, it is true, we ought to love all others with a love of pity, we should show abundance of this love to all mankind; but then there is a love of complacency and delight, and with this love we ought to love none but the Saints.
But, you will say, would you have us to love none but the Saints? I answer, it is true, wee ought to love all others with a love of pitty, wee should shew abundance of this love to all mankinde; but then there is a love of complacencie and delight, and with this love we ought to love none but the Saints.
Again, thirdly, do you love them as they excel in holiness? many men can love one that hath but some degree of grace; but if it be one that hath more exactness than ordinary, that hath proceeded higher in holiness than he thinks requisite, here his heart is ready to quarrel, and to rise against him.
Againe, thirdly, doe you love them as they excell in holinesse? many men can love one that hath but some degree of grace; but if it be one that hath more exactnes than ordinarie, that hath proceeded higher in holinesse than he thinkes requisite, here his heart is readie to quarrell, and to rise against him.
Lastly, do you manifest your love by delighting in their company, and by the fruits of love towards them? You may profess much, and say much, but of all other things company is the worst dissembled. Will you profess that you love the Saints, and that you delight in them, and yet desire to be in any company rather than in theirs? that when you are among them, you are ⟨p. 103⟩