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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.
In the third place, all this is for thy profit, if 1thou be obedient to him, for thou mightest say, why should I obey him? what is all this his excellency to me? when we see the government we live in to be for our good, then we are willing to submit: if we had such a Governor as is mentioned in Judges, that would spend his fatness and his sweetness for us, him we would obey. Now Jesus Christ hath spent his fatness for your good, and all this fullness that is in him, is for the good of the body, Ephes. 1. ult. speaking of Christ and the body, he calls the body the fullness of 2him who filleth all in all.
In the third place, all this is for thy profit, if 1thou be obedient to him, for thou mightest say, why should I obey him? what is all this his excellency to me? when we see the government wee live in to be for our good, then we are willing to submit: if we had such a Governour as is mentioned in Iudges, that would spend his fatnesse and his sweetnesse for us, him we would obey. Now Iesus Christ hath spent his fatnesse for your good, and all this fulnesse that is in him, is for the good of the body, Ephes. 1. ult. speaking of Christ and the body, hee calls the body the fulnesse of 2him who filleth all in all.
- 13. For their profit.
- 2Ephes. 1. ult.