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.

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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.
Author
Preston, John, 1587-1628.
Publication
London, :: Printed by W. I[ones] for Nicolas Bourne, and are to be solde at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange,
1630.
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Subject terms
Faith -- Early works to 1800.
Love (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09950.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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G.

Garment.
Wedding garment what:
2, 5
Gift.
Righteousnesse by gift for three reasons:
1, 8
Gift accepted for the give.
2, 82
  • Glasse, see Name.
Glory, Glorifie.
Growing in faith brings glory to God:
1, 137
Glory of God why Moses desired to see it.
3, 55
Glorifying of God is the end why wee live.
3, 207
God.
God boweth the will:
1, 57, 102
God, wee must not be discouraged from comming to him.
1, 67
God, by what way wee come againe to him.
3, 3
God, why we love him:
3, 10
God must be loved above all, else wee love him not as God:
3, 165
Godlinesse.
Godlinesse what:
2, 83
Good.
Without humiliation Christ is not ac∣counted the chiefe good:
2, 16
Afflictions good for us:
2, 192
A man may doe good, and not be good:
3, 196
To doe good to men is one end why wee live:
3, 207
In every calling we have occasion to doe good:
3, 208
Gospell.
Sinnes against the Gospell aggravated:
1, 27
Love of GOD wrought by the Gospell:
3, 13
Curse of the Gospell:
3, 20
Grace, Gracious.
Righteousnesse of Christ is of grace:
1, 8, 43
Grace, GOD tryeth it:
2, 46
Grace, when it is weake what to doe
2, 73
GOD is gracious:
3, 40
Grace sought by Christians as well as mercy.
3, 68
Grace, to be seperate from it a curse.
3, 177
Great.
True ioy is great:
2, 132
Greatnesse of GOD.
3, 44
Grieve.
If we grieve GOD we love him not:
3, 113
Grounded.
Faith not well grounded proves false:
2, 17

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Faith ill grounded holds not out:
2, 119
Our love must be rooted and grounded:
3, 169
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