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.

F.

Faith.

Faith vvhat.

1, 16, 48

Faith, vvhy God vvill haue men saved by it onely.

1, 42

Faith in generall vvhat.

1, 47

Faith iustifying vuhat.

1, 48

Faith iustifying how it differeth from generall faith.

Ibid.

Faith iustifying a definition of it.

1, 49

Faith, how it taketh Christ.

Ibid.

Faith the essence of it.

1, 52

Faith, the obiect of it.

Ibid.

Faith, the subiect of it.

1, 55

Faith, a twofold consideration of it.

1, 59

Faith, the acts of it three.

1, 62

Faith, a double q••ality in it:

1, 69

Faith, to be laboured for above all,

1, 81

Faith, the least degree what:

1, 121

Faith, an exhortation to grow in it.

1, 134

Faith, 6 motiues to grow in it.

1, 135

Faith of many false.

2, 4

Faith, the proper worke of it what.

2, 21

Faith, we should try it.

2, 60, 84

Faith, many say they haue it, and haue not.

2, 65

Faith, to doe a thing by it what.

2, 82

Faith, how God workes it.

2, 86, 90

Faith, how to know if it bee wrought.

2, 91

Faith, a false definition of it.

2, 100

Faith makes a man neglect other things.

2, 144

Faith that puts a man into Christ what.

3, 2

Faith, to be rooted in it.

3, 171

Faith, to contend for it.

3, 209

Faithfull.

The Lord is faithfull.

3, 148

Failing.

Failings of holy men.

3, 195

Fancie.

Fancy, the ground of unsound peace.

2, 110

• Father, see Offer.

Favour.

Favour of God how to grow in it.

1, 136

Favour of God onely desired by a man sensible of sinne:

3, 140

Feare.

Feare; the ground why many men take Christ:

2, 10

Faith that comes from feare holdes not out:

2, 119

Feares, how faith guides in them:

2, 164

Feare, a tryall of our love.

3, 92

Feeling.

Feeling may be wanting where faith is:

2, 61

Fit.

When we are not fit for mercies God de∣nieth us:

2, 196

Vnwillingnesse to die in the Saints is that they may be more fit.

3, 73

We should not be discouraged from com∣ming to God because wee are not fit:

3, 145

Fire.

Love compared to fire in foure things:

3, 84

Flesh.

Flesh in the Saints makes them loath to die:

3, 73

Flesh transports holy men to sinne:

3, 195

Follow.

• What Christ lookes for of those that fol∣low him.

Forgive.

A man may bee perswaded of forgivenes without faith:

3, 16

None so ready to forgive as God:

3, 39

Forme.

Forme must be observed in taking Christ:

1, 19

Fornication.

Fornication a cause of the pestilence:

3, 92

Foundation.

Foundation of Prophets and Apostles:

2, 36

Fortitude.

Fortitude false, the cause of it:

2, 8

Free.

The will must be free in taking Christ:

1, 22

One property of love to be free:

••, 95

Friend, Friendship.

Love of friendship:

3, 9

God a constant friend:

3, 37

Friendship with great men what:

3, 149