A09950:910
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
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.
GALAT. 5.6. For in Jesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but Faith which worketh by Love.
GALAT. 5.6. For in Iesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but Faith which worketh by Love.
THE last thing we did was to give you the properties of love to the Lord Jesus.
THE last thing wee did was to give you the properties of love to the Lord Iesus.
Now that which remains to do at this time, is to apply that which hath been said, that is, to bring your hearts and the rule together, and to exhort you, that what you have heard in this, it may not pass like airy notions, and never be brought home to your particular practise. For, my beloved, the word that we deliver to you, should be like nails, driven ⟨p. 112⟩home to the head, fastened by the masters of the assembly, as the Wise Man speaks, that they may stick and abide in the soul, as forked arrows do in the body, that they may not easily fall out again. Therefore the main business that we have to do in preaching the word, is to fasten these words thus upon your hearts. That which we will do therefore at this time shall be to exhort you to question your own hearts, and to examine them upon your beds, whether these characters and properties of love which have been delivered do agree to you or no. For, as the Apostle saith, Unless you be in Christ, that is, unless you be knit to Christ in love, you are reprobates: it concerns every man therefore that hears me at this time, to examine this strictly with himself.