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The
excellency
ofhhis
breafi.
plate ofrigh-
teoujnefe.
Rom,7,ì5.
z
Z.
Rorn.7.17.
1.I0h.
3.9
and
vert.6.ä.
Pfalm.rt9,
s2
Of
the breaf
-plate
of
righteoufigs.
his head.
And
then
fhall
not
Satans darts pearce
vs,fo
long
as
we armed
with
a
good
confcience,
and
a
godlie
and in-
nocent
life. Yea
as
long
as
our breads
and hearts
are armed
with
righteoufnes,though
our
other
members
fall
into
fin,
our
Wounds
(hall
not
be
mortali
:
for
as
the
breafl
-plate
doth
defend
the breafl and vitall
parts
ofa
fouldier,
fo
the fiudie
and holie endeuour
ofa
Chriflian to
liue
in
righteoufneffe
and
true
fan
&ification,
doth
fo
arme his
mind,
that
Satan
cannot
deadly
wound the heart with
any
ofhis
temptations.
True
it
is
that
the
Saints doe receiue
wounds and
fóiles,
when
as
Satan
hath
drawne
them to commit
finne,
but
they
are
not
wounded
at
the
heart,
becaufe
they
doe
not
flnne
with
full
content
ofwill
;
for
they allownot that
which
they
doe, neither
doe
they
What
they would,
but what
they hate,
and
they delight
in
the law
of
God
concerning the inner
man,when the
flefh
leadeth them
captiue
to the law offin.
And
hence
it
is
that
maul
faith hee
did
not
tranfgreffe
Gods
law,
but
finne
that
dwelleth
in
him,Rom.y.x
7.
And the A-
poflle
John
of
rtneth,
that
they'
ho
are
borne
of
God
fnnenot,
i Joh.3.9.
and
that
they
who
are
in
Chrif
finne
not :
and that
tvhofoetterlinnet h
is
or
the
diuell, verf.6..8.
Not
that
Gods
chil-
dren
are
exempted from
all
finne,
but
becaufe
they
finne
not
.
with
the
full
confent and fwinge
of
their
will;
and when
they
doe fall,
their hearts
are
defended
with
the breafl-plate
ofrighteoufnes,that
is,with
an
holle endeuour
and delire
of
feruing
God.
Dauid,
a
man
according to Gods
ovine
heart;
maybe
a
notable
example
hereof:
for
cum
after
he
was
in-
dued with
the
knowledge
ofthe
truth,
and had this
godlie
endeuour offeruing
God,
he
notwithflanding
fell
grieuou-
flie
manie times, and
was
wounded
often
with
Satans
darts;
but
his
wounds
were
not mortal,neither
did they
pearce
the
heart,becaufe he
was
armed
with the
breafl-plate
ofrighte-
otrfines;
fór
he
kept
Gods
law
in
his
heart,
and
it
was
fweeter
than
honie vnto
his
mouth,he meditated therein,and
fought
after
it
continually,
as
appeareth
Pfal.i
19.
Would
we there-
fore he preferued from
the deadly wounds
of
Satans
darts
of
temptation
?
then let
vs
'ludic
and labour after
true holi-.
üeslet
vs
keepe
a
good
confcience;
and
howfoeuerwe
fall
often