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The mystical match between Christ and his churchThe mysticall match between Christ and his church
The mystical match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.The mysticall match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.
London: printed for Francis Eaglesfield, 1648
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.
but remember that terrible sentence, Thou hast thy reward. Therefore it is no marvel, that worldlings live so contentedly, with so much outward ease; it is no marvel, I say, for their Father hath given them their portion.
but remember that terrible sentence, Thou hast thy reward. Therefore it is no marvell, that worldlings live so contentedly, with so much outward ease; it is no marvell, I say, for their Father hath given them their portion.
Another impediment is; when parents have provided a fit match for their children, and come and 1propound it to their children, then they are promised to another, their hearts are set upon others: and this is a great impediment in this, and it is common. Now the Lord comes to propound this match to thee; but thou canst not forsake ⟨p. 66⟩those things that thy affections are set upon, thou hast made another choice, thy heart is set upon these outward things, thou hast promised thy love and delight to them, and thou must now refuse the suit of the Kings Sonne. This one day will lye heavy upon thy conscience, when as this Christ that thou hast now rejected, shall come to Judgement, and shall sit upon his glorious Throne, and shall pronounce that heavy sentence, Depart from me ye cursed; and then thy conscience shall tell thee, oh he was once a suitor to me, but I had made another choice, a worse choice; which then thou findest, though it seemed pleasant for the time, yet indeed his service would have been more pleasant and profitable, for he would have thee live but according to the rule, in temperance, sobriety, in diligence, in thy calling, and such like, which would have kept thy body in health, and preserved thy estate; and now thou hast wasted thy body in fornication, and uncleanness, and hast wasted thy goods in drunkenness and good-fellowship, and all riotous living: and so if we should stand to compare every particular service of each husband, we should find that our obedience to our right husband, is more pleasant then that we have now chosen; nay, we