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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.
So I say, when you profess that you love the Lord, and yet have hard hearts, that there is no softness there, that your hearts do not melt towards him, but when you have sinned, you can look back upon your sins without any disturbance at all, know that it is but dissembling with the Lord, and you are worthy to be cut off from his people.
So I say, when you professe that you love the Lord, and yet have hard hearts, that there is no softnesse there, that your hearts doe not melt towards him, but when you have sinned, you can looke backe upon your sinnes without any disturbance at all, know that it is but dissembling with the Lord, and you are worthy to be cut off from his people.
I come to a third trial:1 If you love the Lord Jesus, have you your hearts after his own heart? that is the disposition of all those that love him. Acts 13.22. the Lord saith of David,. I have found a man after my own heart, 2that will do whatsoever I will: That is, look how the Lord himself was affected in any business, so was Davids heart affected, and so it is with all those that love the Lord: (for this is proper to the Saints) If you love the Lord, you will be of one heart with him; if we have hearts after his heart, as every Christian must have in his measure, (though perhaps he reach not Davids measure) in all the turnings of our lives, upon all occasions, in the diverse disposition of our wills, we will be conformable to the Lords will, we will be like God, affected in every thing as he is affected.
I come to a third tryall:1 If you love the Lord Iesus, have you your hearts after his owne heart? that is the disposition of all those that love him.