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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.
We do not deny that a man may grieve upon such occasions, but it is a lighter kind of grief; and therefore it is expressed well by the former phrase, As if he grieved not: He knoweth all this while the main is sure, and so long his heart is steadfast within him: but when a man shall fall into excessive grief, when the affection shall be exceedingly stirred about worldly things, it is a sign that you reckon not God, and the assurance of his favour to be the main thing in your happiness: you should be affected to the world with a remiss affection. Now when your affections are so much taken up about them, it is a ⟨p. 123⟩sign you love the world, and the things of the world. It is true, you may do the things of the world, and enjoy them, and follow after them, but in a remiss manner; but when your affections are so much stirred about them, when you come to excessive love in the having them, and excessive grief in the losing of them, it is a sign that you love the world, and the things of the world.
We doe not denie that a man may grieve upon such occasions, but it is a lighter kinde of griefe; and therefore it is expressed well by the former phrase, As if he grieved not: He knoweth all this while the maine is sure, and so long his heart is stedfast within him: but when a man shall fall into excessive griefe, when the affection shall be exceedingly stirred about worldly things, it is a signe that you reckon not God, and the assurance of his favour to be the maine thing in your happinesse: you should be affected to the world with a remisse affection. Now when your affections are so much taken up about them, it is a ⟨p. 123⟩signe you love the world, and the things of the world. It is true, you may doe the things of the world, and enjoy them, and follow after them, but in a remisse manner; but when your affections are so much stirred about them, when you come to excessive love in the having them, and excessive griefe in the losing of them, it is a signe that you love the world, and the things of the world.