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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.
Every one that doth, or will take Christ, he is, and ought to be subject to him, and it is best for him so 1to be.
Every one that doth, or will take Christ, hee is, and ought to be subject to him, and it is best for him so 1to be.
- 1Doct. Every one that takes Christ ought to be subject and it is best for him.
He that takes Christ, is subject to him; for so soon as there is an union made between the soul and Christ, so soon there is a power goes out from him, which bows and fashions the heart, and makes it willing to keep his Laws, it causeth such a motion in the heart, as is in the members from the head: so soon as the will is willing to do a thing, there is a readiness also in the members, and the reason is, because there is the same spirit that is in the head transfused ⟨p. 77⟩into the members, and so here the same spirit is communicated from Christ by virtue of this union to the members, and as soon as that union shall be perfect, and the Spirit shall dwell in all fullness in us, then we shall have a full readiness to obey him.
He that takes Christ, is subject to him; for so soone as there is an union made between the soule and Christ, so soone there is a power goes out from him, which bowes and fashions the heart, and makes it willing to keepe his Lawes, it causeth such a motion in the heart, as is in the members from the head: so soone as the will is willing to doe a thing, there is a readinesse also in the members, and the reason is, because there is the same spirit that is in the head transfused ⟨p. 77⟩