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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.

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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.
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Preston, John, 1587-1628.
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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 April 30, 2024.

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H.

Habits.
Habits.
1, 41
God rewards not according to our habits.
2, 140
See act.
Happy.
Riches make not happy.
2, 181
Hardly.
God deales not hardly with us, why.
3, 175
  • Harlot, see Love.
Hate, Hating.
Hating of sinne a signe of love.
2, 126
Naturally we hate God.
3, 11
Hatred of sinne a property of love.
3, 97
Three differences betweene hatred and anger.
3, 98
To returne againe to sinne a signe wee hate it not.
3, 99
Hating that which God hates is a signe of love.
3, 120
Foure signes of hating GOD.
3, 131
Heare.
GOD heares some sooner, some later.
1, 90
Why God heareth not sometimes.
2, 194
Hearers, Hearing.
Hearers of two sorts.
1, 28
What hearing of the word God requireth.
3, 81
Heart.
Doubting a signe of a good heart.
2, 26
Christ dwells in the heart, how.
2, 95
How to know whether Christ dwell in the heart.
2, 96
To take Christ with the whole heart
2, 97
Vncircumcision of heart.
3, 106
A heart after Gods heart is a signe of love.
3, 119
When wee give our hearts to God, hee gives us them againe.
3, 155
Heaven.
Heaven, how desired by wicked men
3, 74
Helpe.
God can helpe in desperate cases.
2, 189
Hypocrites, Hypocrisie.
Hypocrisy what.
3, 19
The Saints hated under the name of hy∣pocrites.
3, 103
Christ persecuted under the person of an hypocrite.
3, 121
Holy Ghost.
How the holy Ghost worketh faith.
2, 49
Love, a peculiar gift of the holy Ghost.
3, 50
Holinesse.
Holines wrought by God.
1, 40
Holines easier loved in the Saints, than in God.
2, 127
Holines required in comming to God.
2, 199
Hope.
Hope ill grounded faileth.
2, 19
Hope distinguisheth the faith of Christians from others.
2, 127
Hope mingled with feare.
2, 128
Hope, the property of it.
2, 129
Hold out.
To hold out what it implyeth.
2, 118
Howling.
The prayers of wicked men are howlings.
2, 107
Humbled, Humiliation, Humility.
Humiliation, how it is required before we come to Christ.
1, 14
None can take Christ till they be hum∣bled▪
1, 24
Want of humiliation causeth faith to bee vaine▪
2, 15
Without sound humiliation sinne is not accounted the greatest evill.
2, 16
Sound humiliation fits men for Christ.
2, 30

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Without sound humiliation men holde not out
2, 32
Humility a concomitant of faith.
2, 136
Humility required in comming to God.
2, 199
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