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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.
Love, you know, is of an uniting quality, when any thing lieth between God and us,1 that, ⟨p. 108⟩you may be sure, will hinder our love. Now there are many things that lye between God and us.
Loue, you know, is of an uniting qualitie, when any thing lieth betweene God and us,1 that, ⟨p. 108⟩you may be sure, will hinder our love. Now there are many things that lye betweene God and us.
- 1Note.
Some things lie in our understandings, temptations to atheism, temptations to think that the Scriptures are not true, temptations to judge amiss of God in any thing, temptations to doubt of the favour of God; These lie in the understanding between God and us, and are contrary to love: for love uniteth.
Some things lie in our understandings, temptations to atheisme, temptations to thinke that the Scriptures are not true, temptations to judge amisse of God in any thing, temptations to doubt of the favour of God; These lie in the understanding betweene God and us, and are contrary to love: for love uniteth.