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The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H
The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.H.The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young and John Dawson, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. Take notice, there must be a forgetting of the fathers house; that is, of all lusts, sins and corruptions, profits and pleasures; all must be forgotten and forsaken.1 A woman when she is married unto a husband, must not think always to be at home, and to live in her fathers house: so ⟨p. 39⟩we, when we are married to the Lord Christ Jesus, must leave all our darling sins, and forsake all our beloved lusts, and reserve our selves wholly for our husband.
for hee is thy Lord, and worship thou him. Take notice, there must be a forgetting of the fathers house; that is, of all lusts, sinnes and corruptions, profits and pleasures; all must bee forgotten and forsaken.1 A woman when shee is married unto a husband, must not thinke alwayes to bee at home, and to live in her fathers house: so ⟨p. 39⟩we, when we are married to the Lord Christ Iesus, must leave all our darling sinnes, and forsake all our beloved lusts, and reserve our selves wholly for our husband.
- 1Simile.
So that then the heart is prepared for Christ, when all is laid aside, when all former wicked courses are forgotten, so far as to love them, as to remember to hate them, that so the soul may be ready, and the heart fitted to receive and entertain Christ Jesus when he cometh. And this is the rule which Christ himself giveth to any which will be his Disciple. Mat. 10.37. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: that is, he is not fitted and prepared to receive me. He that is not content to part with all profits, pleasures, and delights, for the Lords sake, he is not fit to receive the Lord Jesus Christ: that soul is not yet prepared to entertain him, and to give any welcome to him. So that this is the first passage; there must be nothing between Christ and the soul, he must lie next the heart: as there must none lie in the Privy Chamber but the King, so there must nothing but Christ lie next the heart.