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Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added, three other distinct sermons / by Dr. Manton.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1685
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.
2. Positively. Let God be a gainer.
(1.) By your daily praises and blessing God for his Providence, that hath brought you into this Relation. I obtained favour from the Lord.
(2.) By living to God in this Relation, performing the Duties thereof, so as your converse may be some lively resemblance of the Communion between Christ and his Church; Ephes. 5. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Husbands, love your Wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it: That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water, by the Word; That he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, ⟨p. 95⟩or any such thing: but that it should be holy, and without blemish. So ought Men to love their Wives, as their own Bodies: he that loveth his Wife, loveth himself. For no Man ever yet hated his own Flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church. For we are Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his Bones.