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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.
THE CHURCHES CARRIAGE.
THE CHVRCHES CARIAGE.
EPHES. 5. 22. 23. 24. Wives, submit your selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
EPHES. 5. 22. 23. 24. Wives, submit your selves unto your owne husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their owne husbands in every thing.
THE Scope of the Apostle is, to show that wives ought to be subject to their husbands, which he enforceth 1upon them with this argu meant; for so is the Church to Christ. My scope is only to speak of the latter: for whereas formerly I pressed men to receive Jesus Christ; now because the chiefest thing they stick at is, being subject to him (which yet is a thing necessary, if they receive him aright) for ⟨p. 76⟩men having lived all their lives at liberty, would do still, although it be the condition of those that are married to Christ, to be subject to him, as it is of the woman to be to the man, as appears by that law first given.