The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . arned the word of God aright, tillyou have an abilitie in you to praftife it. To fh:w you what love is, and what faith is,and what patience is, to make you underftandand conceive of it, it is nothing; but to havefaith, to have patience, to have love, to haveyour affedions inflamed to the Lord, this is theright hearing. As it is in phyficke, the under-Handing of the Phyfitians bill is nothing, itis the taking and applying of that which is ,there written that doth good to your bodies;fois it with thedo&rin
The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . arned the word of God aright, tillyou have an abilitie in you to praftife it. To fh:w you what love is, and what faith is,and what patience is, to make you underftandand conceive of it, it is nothing; but to havefaith, to have patience, to have love, to haveyour affedions inflamed to the Lord, this is theright hearing. As it is in phyficke, the under-Handing of the Phyfitians bill is nothing, itis the taking and applying of that which is ,there written that doth good to your bodies;fois it with thedo&rine that wee preach, youmay underftand it, and apprehend ir, and con-ceive of it aright; but except ytui bring it forthinto your lives and a#ion$, you learne it this flight and overly performance isnot a true teftimonie of yourloue to the Lord Iefu<$ o Love. 8? Iefus,but the doing of it to purpofe,fo that Godwho fcarchcth the heart may accept of ir-thcdoing of it thorowly that your heartsmay be wrought upon, this isafigne that your do-ing and fufferingcomes 84 Of Love 6, Properry oflove, it is likefire in 4 thingsCant :i4,f« ;tJMJSi THE FOVRTH SERMON. Gall a t. 5. /» fefus Qirift, neither circumcijlon avai-led? any thing, nor uncircumcifionjbut Faithwhich Tborketh by Loye. H e laft thing that wee did was tofhew you what were the propertiesof true love 5 that by them youmight try your felves whether youlove the Lord Iefus or nor we wentthrough five in the morning, we now proccede. Another property ofloveisthis^ it is full ofheate: therefore in Cant. 8. it is compared tocodes of juniper : and that phrafe is ufed in M* . Iniquity Jhall abounded the love of btany Jhallwaxecolde. That antithefis fhewes that love is a hot
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