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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.
I say,1 do not deceive your selves in this: for as they rejected Christ under the person of a counterfeit, and of a wine-bibber, so thou mayest persecute Christ under the person of an hypocrite. Paul; you know, he thought he did God good service in persecuting those whom he persecuted, yet though he did it ignorantly, he confessed of himself that he was a blasphemer, and a persecutor: So I say, though you do it ignorantly, under the person of an hypocrite, yet that is the judgement, and the censure that will be upon you, that in so doing you are persecutors.
I say,1 doe not deceive your selves in this: for as they rejected Christ under the person of a counterfeit, and of a wine-bibber, so thou maist persecute Christ under the person of an hypocrite. Paul; you know, hee thought hee did God good service in persecuting those whom he persecuted, yet though hee did it ignorantly, he confessed of himselfe that he was a blasphemer, and a persecuter: So I say, though you doe it ignorantly, under the person of an hypocrite, yet that is the judgement, and the censure that will be upon you, that in so doing you are persecuters.
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