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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
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.
1And first we will make this expostulation, you that profess you love the Lord, (as who will not be ready to do that, to say he loveth Christ; but yet as the Apostle John speaketh of love to the brethren, that men love them in show, and not in truth; so it is with most men, they love the Lord in word, and in profession, but they love ⟨p. 113⟩him not in deed, and in truth) therefore first let me ask you this.
1And first we will make this expostulation, you that professe you love the Lord, (as who will not be ready to doe that, to say he loveth Christ; but yet as the Apostle Iohn speaketh of love to the brethren, that men love them in shew, and not in truth; so it is with most men, they love the Lord in word, and in profession, but they love ⟨p. 113⟩him not in deed, and in truth) therefore first let me aske you this.
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You that profess you love the Lord,1 do you not grieve him, and vex him from day to day, and provoke him by your words, and by your works? If this be your case, it is certain you love him not indeed. Some there are that profess much love to the Lord Jesus, but yet spend their time idly, are diligent in no calling, but waste their precious opportunities in sports, in idle visitations, in gaming, in doing nothing that is profitable either to themselves or others, but eat and drink, and rise up to play: It is the case of many of our young Gentlemen; a shameful thing before men, and abominable in the sight of God, that men should live like beasts, & make their souls like the souls of swine, serving for nothing but to keep their bodies from putrefaction, doing so much the less work, because they have the more wages; burying so many precious talents, whereof their time is the chief, because it helpeth to improve all the rest; of which they shall give an exact account at that day, When God shall judge the secrets of mens hearts according to our Gospel. Do you profess that you love the Lord Jesus, and do you neglect him thus?